UK black metal legends Winterfylleth reveal a new single and video, "Echoes In The After", taken from the upcoming album, The Unyielding Season, set for release on 27 March via Napalm Records. Inspired by the feeling of the Sycamore Gap tree, a landmark near Hadrian's Wall, and adapted from a poem from Sir Philip Sidney's 16th-century epic "The Countess Of Pembroke's Arcadia", "Echoes In The After" is a powerful atmospheric black metal lament to nature and social commentary in one. It comes with an official new music video that visually underlines the lyricism and transforms it into something tangible, too.
Winterfylleth's ninth album is a social commentary wrapped in meticulously crafted poetry and prose. Where the preceding album, The Imperious Horizon (2024), described an ominous, malevolent force lurking in the distance, The Unyielding Season now explores said threat becoming a reality.
Chris Naughton about "Echoes In The After": "The lyric for this song was written as a reaction to the cutting down of the famous 'Robin Hood' tree at Sycamore Gap on Hadrian's Wall, in the North East of the UK. The song is about how some people seem to loathe iconic symbols of history and cultural importance that the local community share in, and hold dear. It speaks to a wayward mentality of individuals who would happily see these types of landmark destroyed – as though nothing is sacred. The lyric paints an image of the land and nature responding to the damage of the tree – almost like it is reacting to the loss of a limb or of a part of itself. It speaks about the wider area being scarred by this situation - with the lyric being written like a lament from nature to itself, condemning the demise of such an iconic symbol. A event that felt like it occurred in a cold, oddly curated and premeditated manner. It was an unsettling circumstance that resonated with us all in the band; particularly as we had used the tree as inspiration for the artwork of our 2018 album, The Hallowing Of Heirdom."
The raging wildfire to its predecessor's calculating, icy cold, Winterfylleth's first offering for their new record label is a reflection and a rebellion against the turmoils tearing individuals apart. The Unyielding Season is a cry against the unsustainable weight of fear and pressure being pushed into the world by the agents of an unresting and unyielding force for evil. Where our surroundings grow more challenging every day, Winterfylleth offers a pause for respite and resistance. The world is on fire, and The Unyielding Season is a warning.
Watch the video for "Echoes In The After", directed by Killian Monson, in the YouTube player below. If you've missed the previously released single/video "Heroes Of A Hundred Fields", you can still check it out over HERE. Link
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"They wrote that we wanted to influence people's minds with our bagpipes so that they would be willing to attack the police." - Irdorath
"We only make an album when we feel genuinely inspired. You can't just say, "OK, I'm going to record a new album", because without inspiration, it would be boring." - Gregor Mackintosh
"We go searching for sounds and ideas within ourselves and there in our dreams, in the moments when 'we are not here'." - Elena Alice Fossi
"This time we're trying not to complicate things too much. We want to have a simple message, but that doesn't mean there will be fewer arrangements or less songwriting..." - Pedro Paixão
