– June fifth, 2025 –
New LP ‘V: Lamentations’ Lands July 4!
Acclaimed British laborious rock band, Wytch Hazel, will launch its new album, ‘Wytch Hazel V: Lamentations‘, on July 4 by way of Dangerous Omen Information (Pøltergeist, Devil’s Satyrs). Recorded with longtime producer Ed Turner (The Ettes, Heavy Trash, Purson), ‘Lamentations‘ delivers uplifting, highly effective heavy music, rife with a Maidenesque jubilance, that builds on the momentum of the band’s lush catalog, together with the LPs ‘Prelude‘, ‘II: Sojourn‘, ‘III: Pentecost‘ and 2023′s ‘IV: Sacrament’, a document hailed as “gloriously shiny heavy steel” which landed at #15 on Billboard’s High New Artists Albums in its first week of launch.
Pre-order / Pre-Save ‘Wytch Hazel V: Lamentations‘ at this location.
Upfront of the the LP’s launch, Wytch Hazel drops a video for its new tune, “Parts“, captured by Wild Stag Studio. With concentrated shades of Blue Öyster Cult circa Hearth Of Unknown Origin, “Parts” has a shiny, buoyant bounce and effervescent surge to heat the coldest coronary heart, its candy solo mixing hummable melodic ingenuity with spontaneous aptitude. Watch “Parts” now at this location.
“Parts is a nod to each 70′s FM radio rock and bands who experimented with fascinating and progressive concepts similar to BÖC and Kansas,” vocalist/guitarist Colin Hendra. “Lyrically, I actually loved enjoying round with the idea of climate and the way highly effective and past the management of man it’s. It felt like a problem on the time, and a little bit out of my consolation zone, however I’m extraordinarily proud of the tune as a complete. It feels cohesive now the time has been spent on it“.
Led by Hendra, Wytch Hazel is a singular supply of laborious rock/heavy steel dominion. The quartet have frequently underscored and bolstered a signature sound rooted in heroic days of yore, finessed to a chic apex. The fifth Wytch Hazel album is overflowing with indelible earworms the likes of which have to be heard to be believed. And consider, you shall.
“I consider issues have meanings and significance,” Hendra emphasizes. “Music isn’t only a self-indulgent, leisure factor, for me it’s an enormous a part of my life, very particular, very magical and really significant. I would like Wytch Hazel to be a pressure for good, a therapeutic energy.”
The primary monitor launched from ‘Lamentations‘ is the galloping “Woven“, a shining instance of Wytch Hazel‘s avant-garde songcraft. “Woven” radiates a healthful rustic attraction tempered with pensive melancholy, its scrupulous simplicity belying its means to proceed blossoming with each spin. Stream “Woven” now at this location.
“On “Woven”, specifically, you possibly can hear us locking in and enjoying off one another within the room” says Hendra of this artful singalong. “I actually needed to jot down a heavy rock tune about sensitivity and gentleness which you don’t hear an excessive amount of of actually. There’s this part the place it goes quiet after the lyrics “be delicate” then an enormous guitar solo is available in the place I attempt my finest to shred and let all of it free“. This heavenly lead, initially improvised, then needed to be slowed down and meticulously relearnt.
‘V: Lamentations‘ monitor itemizing:
01. I Lament
02. Run the Race
03. The Citadel
04. Parts (stream video)
05. The Demon Inside
06. Racing Forwards
07. Elixir
08. Woven (stream visualizer)
09. Heavy Load
10. Therapeutic Energy
(picture credit score: Elly Lucas)
Over time, Wytch Hazel‘s indelible sound has caught the ear of lots of at the moment’s tastemaker indie platforms, with the quartet being hailed as “probably the most badass Christian steel outfit on the market at the moment” by Invisible Oranges, whereas the band and its music lauded as “a hard-rocking, foot-stomping good time” by MetalSucks, “highly effective and emotive” by Heavy Music HQ, “one of many hookiest bands round” by Offended Metallic Man, and “wonderful rock” by 9 Circles, whereas Metallic Injection pegged Wytch Hazel as a band to observe as a part of its “Lesser-Identified Fashionable Heavy Metallic Bands You Want In Your Life” sizzling checklist.
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 hip diabolism of the ‘occult rock‘ revival for the previous 20 years, no different band has dared to supply the opposite facet of the story. Lest any heathen headbanger begin to concern any sort 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 exhibits the glory of God probably the most, for my part, shouldn’t be music created by Christians. It’s Black Sabbath, you recognize!“
Along with vocalist/guitarist Colin Hendra, Wytch Hazel options Alex Haslam (guitar), Andy Shackleton (bass) and Aaron Hay (drums). Comply with the band on Fb and Instagram.
