{"id":60402,"date":"2017-11-10T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=60402"},"modified":"2023-04-30T16:31:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T15:31:13","slug":"news-witchery-release-seventh-studio-album-i-am-legion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-witchery-release-seventh-studio-album-i-am-legion\/","title":{"rendered":"WITCHERY Release Seventh Studio Album \u2018I Am Legion\u2019 (November 10th, 2017) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

WITCHERY Release Seventh Studio Album \u2018I Am Legion\u2019<\/strong><\/span>
\nNovember 10th, 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Swedish thrash metal band Witchery issue seventh full-length studio album I Am Legion<\/em> on November 10th, 2017 through Century Media Records.<\/p>\n

Guitarist Patrik Jensen commented: \u201cThe first few days after the release of \u2018Nosferatu\u2019 (the first single from 2016\u2019s In His Infernal Majesty\u2019s Service<\/em> album) I was quite taken aback. There had been so many years between the releases of Don\u2019t Fear The Reaper<\/em> and Witchkrieg<\/em> (four years) and then an additional six more years between Witchkrieg<\/em> and In His Infernal Majesty\u2019s Service<\/em> that I hardly thought anyone remembered Witchery anymore.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got our shit together for In His Infernal Majesty\u2019s Service<\/em> in order to celebrate the band\u2019s 20th anniversary. We wrote new songs and got a few new members so we could make the album happen and have it released in 2016. But that was the goal; to merely celebrate the band\u2019s 20 years of existence. Then, after \u2018Nosferatu\u2019 was released, this massive wave of appreciation started to surface. When the full album dropped in November 2016 we experienced a surge of positive feedback on the rest of the album as well. I mean, we all loved the album and knew it was good, but we were thrilled to see that also other people heard what we heard; that it was a great album and that this line-up had both the chops and riffs needed, displaying them with an enthusiasm and bravado perhaps not seen since maybe the early days of the band\u2019s existence!<\/p>\n

\u201cThis feedback of positive energy set things in motion within the band. Remembering our promise from somewhere around the release of the Dead, Hot And Ready<\/em> album that we would put out two albums a year (youthful hubris, anyone?), we thought to ourselves: \u2018Let\u2019s try to put out a new album within a year of the release of In His Infernal Majesty\u2019s Service<\/em>\u2019. Said and done.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo here we are. It\u2019s August 2017, and we are very happy and immensely proud to announce I Am Legion<\/em>, the new full-length follow-up album to 2016\u2019s In His Infernal Majesty\u2019s Service<\/em>, scheduled for release on November 10th! With I Am Legion<\/em> having the same line-up, the same studio (Dugout Studios) and the same producer (Danne Bergstrand) as on In His Infernal Majesty\u2019s Service<\/em>, you just know that this will be yet another sonic fist-to-the-face riffage offering! We think In His Infernal Majesty\u2019s Service<\/em> is a great album, but we also think I Am Legion <\/em>takes everything up a notch or two!<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very excited about I Am Legion<\/em> and we hope this release shows that Witchery, albeit after 20 years of existence, isn\u2019t going to fade away. On the contrary, Witchery is more likely entering the most productive phase yet in the band\u2019s career!\u201d<\/p>\n

I Am Legion<\/em> was produced and mixed by Daniel Bergstrand at Dugout Studios in Uppsala, Sweden.<\/p>\n

Cover artwork duties fell to Andreas Diaz Pettersson.<\/p>\n

The track listing is as follows:<\/p>\n

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01. \u2018Legion\u2019
\n02. \u2018True North\u2019
\n03. \u2018Welcome, Night\u2019
\n04. \u2018Of Blackened Wing\u2019
\n05. \u2018Dry Bones\u2019
\n06. \u2018Amun-Ra\u2019
\n07. \u2018Seraphic Terror\u2019
\n08. \u2018A Faustian Deal\u2019
\n09. \u2018An Unexpected Guest\u2019
\n10. \u2018Great Northern Plague\u2019
\n11. \u2018The Alchemist\u2019
\n12. \u2018Ragnar\u00f6k\u2019 (CD digipak bonus track)
\n13. \u2018Apex Ghoul\u2019 (CD digipak bonus track)<\/p>\n

Witchery\u2019s line-up is as follows:<\/p>\n

Angus Norder (vocals, Nekrokraft)
\nRickard Rimf\u00e4lt (lead guitar, ex-Satanic Slaughter \/ ex-Seance)
\nPatrik Jensen (rhythm guitar, The Haunted \/ ex-Satanic Slaughter \/ ex-Seance)
\nSharlee D\u2019Angelo (bass, Mercyful Fate \/ ex-Arch Enemy \/ ex-Spiritual Beggars \/ ex-The Night Flight Orchestra)
\nChris Barkensj\u00f6 (drums, Lik \/ ex-Kaamos \/ ex-The Resistance)<\/p>\n

Music videos were filmed for the tracks \u2018Of Blackened Wing\u2019 and \u2018Welcome, Night\u2019. <\/p>\n

Regarding \u2018Welcome, Night\u2019, Patrik Jensen commented: \u201cOn I Am Legion<\/em> we have tried a few things that Witchery never has done before. \u2018Welcome, Night\u2019, with its odd timing, atypical arrangement and with riffs that are meant to enhance the vocals \/ lyrics (and not the other way around as per usual) makes the song probably my favourite track on the album.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like how the lyrics turned out too. They might lead you to think about a certain infamous incident in history, but I chose to place it in \u2018the year 1855\u2019 to distance the song from that, yet keeping it in the same Victorian setting. I got a question from a journalist if the lyrics somehow were about \u2018the Devil\u2019s footprints\u2019 that happened that specific year. They’re not connected, but I can recommend looking up that particular incident. Pretty interesting. Please enjoy the contribution of our two great friends – Nick Barker\u2019s [Lock Up \/ Ancient \/ Brujeria] spoken word and Mike Wead\u2019s [Mercyful Fate \/ King Diamond \/ Hexenhaus] solo – in the song as well!\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, an animated music video was created for the song \u2018True North\u2019. <\/p>\n

All three clips can also be viewed below.<\/p>\n

Sixth studio record In His Infernal Majesty\u2019s Service<\/em> was released in November 2016.<\/p>\n

Promotional photograph by Michaela Barkensj\u00f6.<\/em><\/p>\n