Winterfylleth have unveiled “Echoes In The After,” the second single from their upcoming ninth album The Unyielding Season, due out March 27th via Napalm Records.
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Inspired by the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree near Hadrian’s Wall and adapted from a poem in Sir Philip Sidney’s 16th-century epic The Countess Of Pembroke’s Arcadia, the track serves as an atmospheric black metal lament rooted in nature and social commentary. An official music video accompanies the release.
The Unyielding Season continues the thematic arc established on 2024’s The Imperious Horizon.
Guitar/vocalist Chris Naughton shared the following:
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.
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