{"id":7477,"date":"2019-08-14T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=7477"},"modified":"2019-08-12T13:22:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:22:39","slug":"winterfylleth-announce-new-live-album-the-siege-of-mercia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=7477","title":{"rendered":"WINTERFYLLETH ANNOUNCE NEW LIVE ALBUM \u2019THE SIEGE OF MERCIA\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yvRO5SZcc0k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><b class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">RELEASED 13TH SEPTEMBER (CANDLELIGHT\/<span class=\"yiv9700253742\">SPINEFARM<\/span>\u00a0RECORDS)<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><span class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">\n<div class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><span class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">Leading lights of the UK Black Metal scene, Winterfylleth, return on 13th September 2019 with a brand new live album &#8216;The Siege of Mercia&#8217; on CD\/DVD and gatefold LP.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><span class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><span class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">The album features a span of the band&#8217;s classic material &#8211; as well as a previously unreleased bonus track &#8211; and serves to demonstrate the formidable live abilities of Winterfylleth, as performed as part of their main stage appearance at Bloodstock Festival 2017.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><span class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><span class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">Bloodstock is often seen as the\u00a0only\u00a0domestic open-air festival to\u00a0<span class=\"yiv9700253742\">really\u00a0<\/span>focus on\u00a0providing a stage for\u00a0underground bands and they were\u00a0<span class=\"yiv9700253742\">one of the first<\/span>\u00a0to take a chance on adding\u00a0Winterfylleth to their line up almost 10 years ago; something for which the band have always been grateful.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"yiv9700253742\">Guitarist\/vocalist\u00a0Chris<\/span><span class=\"yiv9700253742\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"yiv9700253742\">Naughton comments,<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><span class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">\n<div class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><span class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><i class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">&#8220;Back then, playing the festival coincided with us releasing our second album \u2018The Mercian Sphere\u2019 (our first for Candlelight Records),\u00a0<span class=\"yiv9700253742\">and provided us with<\/span>\u00a0a huge platform\u00a0on which we were able to launch that release. It was also the first time we had performed those songs on such a national scale. Having done so, our profile grew quickly and we were able to push the band forwards to where we find ourselves now.\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><span class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><i class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><span class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><i class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">We have been fortunate enough to have been asked back to perform at the festival on a number of occasions since those early days, and it has always felt like \u2018coming home\u2019 when we do. Looking back, the highlight of all our appearances to date was in 2017 when we were invited to play the Ronnie James Dio stage. It was a great show for us&#8221;<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><span class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><span class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">Mixed and Mastered from the original desk recordings by long time collaborator Chris Fielding (Primordial\/Electric Wizard\/Napalm Death), with the live DVD footage professionally filmed on the\u00a0Ronnie James Dio\u00a0Stage,&#8217;The Siege of Mercia\u2019 is an absolutely essential release for fans of atmospheric Black Metal. The band add,\u00a0<i class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">&#8220;with no overdubs,\u00a0and a lot of passion; this is Winterfylleth live in 2017.\u00a0We hope you enjoy it and we look forward to seeing you from another stage very soon! Until then\u2026&#8221;<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><span class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/WF_300116_1272.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7478 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/WF_300116_1272.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/WF_300116_1272.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/WF_300116_1272-300x193.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><span class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><span class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">Winterfylleth are also currently working on the follow up to last year\u2019s album, &#8216;The Hallowing Of Heirdom\u2019 stating that,\u00a0<i class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">&#8220;we are also deep into the process of writing a new Winterfylleth studio album. Having taken a breather on the last record to make an acoustic album, we are now fully focused on a new, Black Metal album which we are hoping to record at the back end of 2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><span class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><i class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><span class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><i class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">The material that\u2019s coming out so far is fierce, epic, triumphant and as emotionally charged as anything the band has ever done before, but this time it\u2019s been honed through the filter of skills and writing experience we\u2019ve garnered over the past few years doing a different kind of album.\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><span class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><i class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><span class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><i class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">We\u2019re hoping that what will come<span class=\"yiv9700253742\">\u00a0next\u00a0<\/span>will be a welcome surprise for our fans and a real statement of intent for the future\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><span class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\"><span class=\"yiv9700253742\" style=\"font-size: small;\"><span class=\"yiv9700253742ydp1dae6503yiv8002363110\">\u00a0&#8216;The Siege of Mercia\u2019 is\u00a0available to pre-order now &#8211;<\/span><a class=\"yiv9700253742\" href=\"https:\/\/winterfylleth.lnk.to\/theseigeofmercia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Here<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RELEASED 13TH SEPTEMBER (CANDLELIGHT\/SPINEFARM\u00a0RECORDS) \u00a0 Leading lights of the UK Black Metal scene, Winterfylleth, return on 13th September 2019 with a brand new live album &#8216;The Siege of Mercia&#8217; on CD\/DVD and gatefold LP. \u00a0 The album features a span of the band&#8217;s classic material &#8211; as well as a previously unreleased bonus track &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3036],"class_list":["post-7477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-winterfylleth","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7480,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477\/revisions\/7480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}