Swedish doom folk pioneers Witchcraft return with a gorgeous 5-track EP entitled "A Sinner's Child" this spring!
Out March 13th on Heavy Psych Sounds
TRACKLIST:
1. Drömmen Om Död Och Förruttnelse
2. Sinner's Child
3. Even Darker Days
4. Själen Reser Sig
5. Sinner's Clear Confusion
The storyline of Witchcraft’s growth, from Pelander’s starting the band in Örebro in 2000 in the wake of his prior outfit Norrsken’s disbanding. A generational landmark of a 2004 self-titled debut helped spark a retroist movement that has become its own subgenre, but Witchcraft never stopped growing. 2005’s ‘Firewood’ and 2007’s ‘The Alchemist’ introduced more progressive sounds, and five years later, the pointedly modern ‘Legend’ established in 2012 that they had moved beyond the analog worship they had been a part of pioneering within the contemporary heavy rock and doom scene.
In 2016, the 2LP ‘Nucleus’ introduced fuller-toned doom, and 2020’s ‘Black Metal’ diverged into moody acoustic minimalism familiar to some fans from Pelander’s early solo work, but different from anything Witchcraft had done prior. More than 20 years after their debut, Witchcraft’s seventh album and Heavy Psych Sounds Records debut ‘IDAG’ (2025) is an awaited full accounting of who they are as a band. It is the tie that draws all of this – more than two decades of exploring and growth – together. Whatever they’ve done in the past and whatever they’ll do in the future, ‘IDAG’ feels like a nexus for defining who and what Witchcraft are. Even crazier, that might be the point of the thing. – Words by JJ Koczan
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