Weeks after signing with Napalm Records and announcing their new album The Unyielding Season, British black metal outfit Winterfylleth is back with a new single to play as loud as you can. This new one is a six-and-a-half minute epic titled “Echoes In The After”.
Bombastic and massive sounding, this new track is based on the loss of the Sycamore Gap tree, a landmark near Hadrian’s Wall, and a 16th century poem from Sir Philip Sidney’s The Countess Of Pembroke’s Arcadia. It’s every bit as atmospheric and powerful as you’d expect for a black metal song about that subject matter.
Winterfylleth’s Chris Naughton gave a deeper explanation about the song’s inspiration:
“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. An 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 Unyielding Season will be released on March 27 via Napalm Records, but you can preorder your copy today.
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