“I spent 14 years in the Iron Maidens. It was a great time… but I didn’t start playing guitar to be a professional tribute musician”: How Courtney Cox found her own identity bringing malevolent riffing to the coven of Burning Witches

Courtney Cox and Romana Kalkuhl of Burning Witches. Cox holds her slime green Caparison, while Kalkuhl has a yellow Jackson Soloist.

While Inquisition marks Burning Witches’ first full-length release with social media shredder and onetime Iron Maidens member Courtney Cox in the lineup, the Swiss unit actually welcomed the guitarist into their heavy metal sisterhood long, long ago.

Cox recalls first running into Burning Witches’ founding rhythm guitarist Romana Kalkuhl when the two acts crossed paths at an Austrian venue after the Witches issued their self-titled debut album in 2017. They got along famously backstage, which led to Cox being invited into the coven for a hellfire-blazing guest solo on the aptly titled Maiden of Steel from Burning Witches’ 2018 album, Hexenhammer.