Our third look at FEVEREATEN is here: following THE GARDEN and DEAD TO ME!, Witch Fever have just unleashed the title-track from their second album.
Witch Fever have just shared the title-track from their second album FEVEREATEN.
Ahead of the record’s release this autumn, the quartet have followed up previous singles THE GARDEN and DEAD TO ME! with FEVEREATEN. Vocalist Amy Walpole says that, “I wrote FEVEREATEN when I realised I couldn’t stop myself writing about the church. It’s about feeling drained by that fixation and being consumed by intrusive thoughts. I’m angry that I struggle more than others and feel like a burden – but I’m also determined to hold onto that anger and use it productively.”
Speaking to Kerrang! last month about what the title FEVEREATEN actually means, Amy revealed, “It has lots of different layers, but it’s a feeling of being consumed by something, and not being able to move past it or look past it. I like it because it can relate to mental health and it can relate to trauma, but [for me] it also relates to another idea. I grew up being told that God was all around me, constantly watching me for sin. So it plays on the idea that, for a lot of my life, I felt like I was being watched or haunted by something. I had never known whether it was my trauma, God, or something even more supernatural than God.
“I did a Master’s degree in English literature, but I specialised in horror and gothic fiction and I always felt like I could relate to characters like in, say, [Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s] The Yellow Wallpaper – women that had been diagnosed with hysteria, which was actually just a blanket umbrella term for any woman experiencing anything that a man didn’t like. I had an affinity with those women in films and books that were possessed and were ‘hysterical’. I just find it so fascinating. FEVEREATEN treads the line between my reality and fiction, as well. There are themes of hauntings, ghosts and stuff like that. There’s even a lyric about furniture in my house moving around…”
Watch the video for FEVEREATEN below:
FEVEREATEN is due out October 31 via Music For Nations / Sony. Catch Witch Fever supporting Volbeat later on in the year – get your tickets now.
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