– April twentieth, 2023 –
Ascending British Steel Band to Launch New LP, ‘IV: Sacrament’, June 2nd
UK Medieval Steel Phenoms Fourth Album Overflows with Affecting Hooks, Ageless Melodies; Stream Video for New Monitor ‘Angel of Gentle’
Wytch Hazel (Credit score Sam Scot Hunter)
Ascending British onerous rock sect, Wytch Hazel, will launch its new album, ‘IV: Sacrament‘, on June 2 through Unhealthy Omen Data. Recorded with long-time producer Ed Turner (Purson), and tracked in a transformed Baptist chapel in rural Wales, the file is a powerful achievement and glittering treasure chest that builds on the momentum of the band’s celebrated 2020 album ‘III: Pentecost‘, glorified by Underneath The Radar as “an invocation of rock and roll at its purest and, extra particularly, of all that made the New Wave of British Heavy Steel within the late ’70s so particular” and compelled Steel Injection to opine, “Wytch Hazel is arguably among the finest heavy metallic bands on the market proper now and everybody needs to be listening to them.”
“Pre-order Wytch Hazel‘s ‘IV: Sacrament‘ at this location.
Following the March launch of ‘IV: Sacrament‘s first single (and it’s accompanying video by the Brighton based mostly production-team Wild Stag Studio) “Angel of Gentle” which precipitated Steel Injection to notice, “Wytch Hazel has guitar harmonies for days” and was named by Basic Rock as certainly one of its Tracks of the Week whereas opining, “there’s a lot to get pleasure from right here no matter your non secular persuasion…assume Blue Oyster Cult-meets-Skinny Lizzy, with the gallop of Iron Maiden and uplifting harmonies” – Wytch Hazel drops a lyric video, for the brand new observe, “A Thousand Years”, a stone chilly rock banger that includes classically lovely manufacturing and a ripping Neal Schon/Aldo Nova-type guitar solo. View Wytch Hazel‘s “A Thousand Years”at this location.
Led by vocalist / multi-instrumentalist Colin Hendra, Wytch Hazel is a singular supply of onerous rock/heavy metallic dominion, providing a by no means ending quantum of mediaeval melodic constructions and to uplifting hymns, ‘IV: Sacrament‘ is overflowing with indelible ear-worms the likes of which should be heard to be believed. And imagine, you shall.
“I’ve blown my very own thoughts a bit,” Colin states, “and even in spite of everything this painstaking work, I nonetheless really feel like I’ve solely scratched the floor of what Wytch Hazel could possibly be doing musically. I want I might have a month to work on one tune, and go on a tangent a bit. I’ll sooner or later, it’s moving into the appropriate course. It’s among the most sincere songwriting I’ve ever finished, and the lyrics come from a darker place, I feel. I’m getting older, that comes via in some lyrics: ‘see my physique breaking’, ‘I’m digging deeper’, ‘time’s working out…’ – I wrestle to see the constructive plenty of the time, so the songs find yourself being detrimental, the subject material coming from fixed striving.“
It’s these deeply private lyrics, coming from a spot of religion and conviction, which make Wytch Hazel stand out farther from the trendy herd; though we’ve been bombarded with the cartoon diabolism of the ‘occult rock’ revival for one of the best a part of twenty years, no different band has dared to supply the opposite facet of the story. But lest any heathen headbanger begin to concern any type of evangelical conversion agenda, Hendra expands on his place: “Music is created for all, it’s a typical grace for everybody,” he affirms, “which is why the music that reveals the glory of God probably the most, for my part, shouldn’t be music created by Christians. It’s Black Sabbath, you already know!“
Monitor itemizing:
01. The Hearth’s Management
02. Angel of Gentle (watch VIDEO)
03. Time and Doubt
04. Sturdy Coronary heart
05. Ship Us
06. A Thousand Years (watch VIDEO)
07. Gold Gentle
08. Countless Battle
09. Future Is Gold
10. Digging Deeper
Along with vocalist/guitarist Colin Hendra, Wytch Hazel options Alex Haslam (guitar), Andy Shackleton (bass) and Aaron Hay (drums).
“Retro heavy rockers Wytch Hazel have drawn fairly a little bit of consideration these previous couple of years with a constant stream of fantastic and always-improving albums-and for his or her unabashed love for his or her lord and saviour Jesus Christ…their third album III: Pentecost got here out on Unhealthy Omen Data to near-universal acclaim (other than a little bit of grumbling from metalheads who which might be much less excited by Christian lyrics). For the uninitiated, Wytch Hazel sound fairly a bit just like the glory days of early heavy metallic simply earlier than Iron Maiden and Saxon took over the world; some good references are Ashbury, Wishbone Ash, and Pagan Altar, however Wytch Hazel’s sound is all their very own” – Invisible Oranges
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