DARKEST ERA Issue Official Visualiser Video For ‘A Path Made Of Roots’ Track
September 30th, 2022
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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 ‘A Path Made Of Roots’, which can be viewed below.
Darkest Era issued third full-length studio album Wither On The Vine on September 30th, 2022 through Napalm Records.
Guitarist Ade Mulgrew commented: “The 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.”
Wither On The Vine was recorded at Foel Studios in Llanfair Caereinion, Powys with producer Chris Fielding.
Cover artwork was created by Anaïs Mulgrew.
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The track listing is as follows:
01. ‘One Thousand Years Of Night’
02. ‘Floodlands’
03. ‘A Path Made Of Roots’
04. ‘Tithonus’
05. ‘The Collapse’
06. ‘With Tragedy In Our Blood’
07. ‘The Ashen Plague’
08. ‘Wither On The Vine’
Darkest Era’s line-up is as follows:
Dwayne “Krum” Maguire (vocals)
Ade Mulgrew (guitars)
Sarah Wieghell (guitars)
Daniel O’Toole (bass)
Cameron Åhslund-Glass (drums)
Music videos were filmed for the tracks ‘Floodlands’ and ‘Tithonus’, which can both be viewed below.
“‘Floodlands’ is about human tragedy, and empathy in the face of chaos and despair,” said Ade Mulgrew. “It was particularly inspired by the horrifying images and accounts we’ve 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’s 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.”
The music video was filmed on the north coast of Ireland against the backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean. “‘Floodlands’ is the first of a series of three music videos written around the vision that Darkest Era’s new album brought to my head,” shared director Anais Mulgrew. “The 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.”
An official drum playthrough for ‘Floodlands’ can also be viewed below.
Lyrics for the track ‘Tithonus’ were “adapted from the 1859 Tennyson poem of the same name,” meanwhile, revealed Ade Mulgrew. “Based 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.”
Second studio record Severance was released in June 2014 via Cruz del Sur Music.
Promotional photograph by Debbie Ellis.
