Wiccans - Phase IV - VINYL LP

Beliczay / Budapest Concert Orch / Gal - Symphony 1 in D Minor 45 / Serenade in D Minor 36 [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/03/2017

WEREWOLF RECORDS is proud to present MOONCITADEL's highly anticipated debut album, Night's Scarlet Symphonies. For those who've lurked within the black metal underground for the past two decades (or even longer), the name Morrigan should be more than familiar. As Mayhemic Truth from 1992-2000, the band released a steady stream of demos that bowed before the ancient altar of the almighty Bathory. The shimmering darkness that Mayhemic Truth created back then was an untrendy counterpoint to black metal's increasingly mainstream aspirations during that period, and also served as an oft-overlooked pillar of Germany's black metal underground. However, when the band changed their moniker to Morrigan at the dawn of the new millennium and released their debut album, Plague, Waste and Death, in 2001, changes were afoot - and they were grand. For the rest of the ensuing decade, Morrigan moved on from Bathory's more hard-charging style into the glorious InchViking eraInch marked most poignantly by the dual classics of Hammerheart and Twilight of the Gods. Their exploration of Quorthon's pagan ruminations soon became an almost parallel realm of unrecorded Viking Bathory work, both sincerely devoted to those twin tomes and simultaneously expanding upon them, the latter largely through the exploration of Celtic mythology. In short, this was the true sound of Morrigan, and they quietly led others into new-yet-old pagan vastlands.

Wicca Phase Springs Eternal has been the moniker and creative persona of Pennsylvania-based singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Adam McIlwee for over a decade. The name is as enigmatic as McIlwee's work, a fittingly esoteric umbrella for his ever-growing and ever-evolving catalog of music that's been released at a stunning quality and pace. So it's with great intention that the name is now also the title of McIlwee's latest full-length Wicca Phase Springs Eternal offers the musician's most finely honed and welcoming songs to date, but it's more than just a self-titled album-it's a portal, an entryway into an entire world. As 2019 merged into 2020, the former Tigers Jaw member and Gothboiclique founder was looking to step away from the hyper-concentrated melancholic Trap of 2019's Suffer On, and set out to breathe fresh life into the WPSE project by creating a broader sonic landscape. Inspired by the musings of '60s and '70s British folk bands such as Fairport Convention and Pentangle, McIlwee hunkered down in the Western Catskills and Abington Township in Pennsylvania, absorbing the scenery and trying to translate the beauty of his surroundings into an immersive experience. He began to expand the WPSE lore and fashion a more colorful and descriptive body of work-one where he still wears his heart on his sleeve, but now all of the longing and heartache exist in a vivid space that's strikingly real and otherworldly all at once. The sound of Wicca Phase began to grow as well never wanting the project to be defined by a genre, McIlwee worked closely with longtime collaborator Darcy Baylis, as well as newcomer Ben Greenberg, to continue to bring new styles and moods into WPSE. Looking to incorporate his love of EDM, trance, and house sounds, McIlwee and co. Created an amalgam of '80s and '90s breakbeat style drums, modernistic 808s, shimmering synths,