EWIGKEIT sign with Svart Records for next album, features IN THE WOODS… vocalist

Fresh from contributing vocals/guitars/keys to the recent, widely aclaimed In The Woods… album pure, James Fogarty is now completing work on a new album for his long-running solo effort Ewigkeit – the first commercially available release since 2005’s Conspiritus album, on Earache Records.

“I have been working on a collection of songs which has a wide-ranging inspiration from the past 45-50 years of rock/metal, from The Doors, Hawkwind, and Sabbath, through the NWOBHM era and the extreme metal of the ’90s, right up until today,” says Fogarty. “It’s the most guitar-centered material I have ever recorded, and certainly owes a lot to my all-time favourite bands, from classic rock through to black metal.”

Of the album’s themes, Fogarty reveals, “Lyrically, I have been greatly inspired recently by the literary works from the psychedelic underground – authors such as Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson, and Dr Rick Stein. So, it’s basically a mish-mash of personal philosophy, scientific conjecture, stoned ramblings, and the schizophrenically esoteric, which, all in all, unintentionally, verges on the outrageously pretentious.”

To release the as-yet-untitled album, Fogarty has decided to team up with much-respected left-field and experimental metal label Svart Records of Finland. “For Svart Records to work with me on the new Ewigkeit material is great,” he beams. “This is a new beginning for Ewigkeit, and I am excited to be working on new material. They are the perfect label, owing to their embrace of the more experimental and psychedelic underground metal bands from over the last 10 years, and having a good understanding of music from the past, present, and future – that’s the new Ewigkeit material in a nutshell.”

The new, as-yet-untitled Ewigkeit album is nearing completion and will be released by Svart Records in the spring of 2017.

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