IDAG is WITCHCRAFT brand new album, out on May 23rd via Heavy Psych Sounds.
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More than 20 years after their debut, Witchcraft’s seventh album, ‘IDAG,’ is an awaited full accounting of who they are as a band. Those who have clamored for the return to an earlier sound rooted in ‘70s classic progressive and heavy rock will delight to the strut of “Irreligious Flamboyant Flame” while the eight-minute opening title-track is the heaviest the band have ever sounded, and a succession of interspersed acoustic-based pieces helps create a vision of a new, soulfully folkish doom taking shape as they continue to move inexorably forward.
Founding guitarist/vocalist, Magnus Pelander, says of ‘IDAG’: “This album will reap souls and destroy wicked minds. And perhaps mend a couple of broken ones.”
These enigmatic few words from the Swedish band’s main songwriter give clues as to the songs’ intentions; a reference dropped to Coven’s 1969 album, ‘Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls.’ Coven also had a folkish, proto-doomed take at that point in their history, and that multifaceted nature has been a part of Witchcraft all along. On one level, Magnus is winkingly telling you it’s a Witchcraft record. The actual meaning of that becomes clear when you hear the album and find out just how much ‘a Witchcraft record’ can encompass. (JJ Koczan)
CREDITS
Recorded and engineered by Johan Elander, Philip Saxin and David Storm.
Mixed and mastered by David Storm. Produced by Magnus Pelander.
All music and lyrics and guitars and vocals by Magnus Pelander.
Drums: Pär Hjulström. Bass: Philip Pilossian. Synth on track 1 by Björn Ekholm Eriksson.
Thanks to: Oscar Johansson for the pigtail and Pär and Philip for dedication and help. Anton Sundell for professional worship of audio files.
Very special extra thanks to: Sean Pelletier for driving the Wheels Of Confusion overboard then back starboards again. For making this LP happen. With peace in his mind. Forever in debt to your priceless advice.
Artwork: John Bauer.
Gatefold photo: Magnus Pelander.
Design: David Bååth.
RECORD LABEL & BOOKING – Heavy Psych – Stoner – 70’s – Retro Rock – Vintage