Witch Fever have simply shared the title-track from their second
album FEVEREATEN.
Forward of the report’s launch this autumn, the quartet have adopted up earlier singles THE GARDEN and
DEAD TO ME! with FEVEREATEN. Vocalist Amy Walpole says that, “I wrote FEVEREATEN after I
realised I couldn’t cease myself writing in regards to the church. It’s about feeling
drained by that fixation and being consumed by intrusive ideas. I’m offended
that I battle greater than others and really feel like a burden – however I’m additionally
decided to carry onto that anger and use it productively.”
Chatting with Kerrang! final month about what the title FEVEREATEN really means, Amy revealed, “It has plenty of totally different layers, but it surely’s a sense of being consumed by one thing, and never having the ability to transfer previous it or look previous it. I prefer it as a result of it could relate to psychological well being and it could relate to trauma, however [for me] it additionally pertains to one other concept. I grew up being instructed that God was throughout me, always watching me for sin. So it performs on the concept, for lots of my life, I felt like I used to be being watched or haunted by one thing. I had by no means recognized whether or not it was my trauma, God, or one thing much more supernatural than God.
“I did a Grasp’s diploma in English literature, however I specialised in horror and gothic fiction and I all the time felt like I might relate to characters like in, say, [Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s] The Yellow Wallpaper – ladies that had been recognized with hysteria, which was really only a blanket umbrella time period for any lady experiencing something {that a} man didn’t like. I had an affinity with these ladies in movies and books that had been possessed and had been ‘hysterical’. I simply discover it so fascinating. FEVEREATEN treads the road between my actuality and fiction, as properly. There are themes of hauntings, ghosts and stuff like that. There’s even a lyric about furnishings in my home transferring round…”
Watch the video for FEVEREATEN beneath:
