{"id":95641,"date":"2022-09-30T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T23:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=95641"},"modified":"2022-10-01T11:28:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T10:28:18","slug":"news-darkest-era-release-third-studio-album-wither-on-the-vine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-darkest-era-release-third-studio-album-wither-on-the-vine\/","title":{"rendered":"DARKEST ERA Issue Official Visualiser Video For \u2018A Path Made Of Roots\u2019 Track (September 30th, 2022) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

DARKEST ERA Issue Official Visualiser Video For \u2018A Path Made Of Roots\u2019 Track<\/strong><\/span>
\nSeptember 30th, 2022<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Belfast, Northern Ireland-based Celtic folk \/ traditional heavy metal band Darkest Era have released an official visualiser video for the track \u2018A Path Made Of Roots\u2019, which can be viewed below.<\/p>\n

Darkest Era issued third full-length studio album Wither On The Vine<\/em> on September 30th, 2022 through Napalm Records.<\/p>\n

Guitarist Ade Mulgrew commented: \u201cThe album presents a bleak reflection of the world as it stands today; politically, socially, environmentally. Among themes of human tragedy and personal introspection, there are also songs touching on pagan spirituality, the Dionysian perspective and even gothic romance. Stylistically the album mixes black metal and doom metal elements with an almost classic rock sense of tone. We hope the album resonates with listeners seeking music with genuine power and emotional weight, pulling them into its dark visions.\u201d <\/p>\n

Wither On The Vine<\/em> was recorded at Foel Studios in Llanfair Caereinion, Powys with producer Chris Fielding.<\/p>\n

Cover artwork was created by Ana\u00efs Mulgrew.<\/p>\n

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

01. \u2018One Thousand Years Of Night\u2019
\n02. \u2018Floodlands\u2019
\n03. \u2018A Path Made Of Roots\u2019
\n04. \u2018Tithonus\u2019
\n05. \u2018The Collapse\u2019
\n06. \u2018With Tragedy In Our Blood\u2019
\n07. \u2018The Ashen Plague\u2019
\n08. \u2018Wither On The Vine\u2019<\/p>\n

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

Dwayne \u201cKrum\u201d Maguire (vocals)
\nAde Mulgrew (guitars)
\nSarah Wieghell (guitars)
\nDaniel O\u2019Toole (bass)
\nCameron \u00c5hslund-Glass (drums)<\/p>\n

Music videos were filmed for the tracks \u2018Floodlands\u2019 and \u2018Tithonus\u2019, which can both be viewed below.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Floodlands\u2019 is about human tragedy, and empathy in the face of chaos and despair,\u201d said Ade Mulgrew. \u201cIt was particularly inspired by the horrifying images and accounts we\u2019ve seen over the last years of people forced to flee their homes and their lives in the face of war, famine, persecution and climate change. Following the outbreak of war in Ukraine the themes prove to be, sadly, ever relevant. We hope the song resonates with listeners with it\u2019s crushing drive and sweeping melancholy. This song was one of the first to be completed in the writing process. It came together very naturally and quickly, with very little tweaking of the arrangement. Even though it was one of the first songs written for the album, I immediately knew it would be a single. The song became a foundation around which the rest of the album was written, and informed the direction of travel in terms of atmosphere and composition.\u201d<\/p>\n

The music video was filmed on the north coast of Ireland against the backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean. \u201c\u2018Floodlands\u2019 is the first of a series of three music videos written around the vision that Darkest Era\u2019s new album brought to my head,\u201d shared director Anais Mulgrew. \u201cThe neverending tragedy of life, brought to the scale of the gods themselves. Everything withers, everything ends, while grief goes on forever, and the mourning creatures depicted in the video will work until the end of times as surely as the waves will keep crashing on the cliffs.\u201d<\/p>\n

An official drum playthrough for \u2018Floodlands\u2019 can also be viewed below.<\/p>\n

Lyrics for the track \u2018Tithonus\u2019 were \u201cadapted from the 1859 Tennyson poem of the same name,\u201d meanwhile, revealed Ade Mulgrew. \u201cBased on Greek mythology, it depicts a man who is granted eternal life yet not eternal youth. Cursed to age endlessly while his lover Eos, Goddess of the Dawn, retains youth everlasting. He begins to envy the natural cycle of the living world and the mortality of men. My interpretation is simple; to harvest as much richness of meaning from every moment as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Second studio record Severance<\/em> was released in June 2014 via Cruz del Sur Music.<\/p>\n

Promotional photograph by Debbie Ellis.<\/em><\/p>\n