Upon hearing the first 10 seconds of any Margarita Witch Cult song, one thing becomes apparent: these guys love Black Sabbath. But while they acknowledge a debt to their fellow Brummies, they’re keen not to be lumped as just another Birmingham band.
“Birmingham is always shedding its skin,” bassist Jim Thing explains. “We’ve been around long enough to have seen things like [mid-2010s indie scene] B-Town, where bands like Superfood were going to be the next big thing. The older you get, you become more aware of the pitfalls of aligning yourself too much with a particular scene. We wanted to do our own thing.”
