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After surprising their fans with
"Insomnia", the proggy and mad first single from their upcoming album, Swiss progressive folk rockers
CELLAR DARLING — who feature in their ranks former
ELUVEITIE members
Anna Murphy (vocals, hurdy-gurdy),
Merlin Sutter (drums) and
Ivo Henzi (guitars, bass) — have dropped a brand new song and have finally announced long-awaited details about their new release. Their second studio album will be a concept album titled
"The Spell" and it will arrive on March 22 via
Nuclear Blast.
Commented
CELLAR DARLING: "As some of you have discovered already, over the past 13 days, we have revealed the tracklist of our new album, along with amazing artwork created by
Costin Chioreanu, who is also behind all of the beautiful animated videos for the new songs.
"The 13 tracks of
'The Spell' invite you to witness the journey of a girl who falls in love with death. In the song released today, a spell has been cast on our protagonist — for now, her love shall go unfulfilled…"
"The Spell" title track can be streamed below.
Track listing:
01.
Pain
02.
Death
03.
Love
04.
The Spell
05.
Burn
06.
Hang
07.
Sleep
08.
Insomnia
09.
Freeze
10.
Fall
11.
Drown
12.
Love Pt. II
13.
Death Pt. II
CELLAR DARLING's debut album,
"This Is The Sound", was released in June 2017 via
Nuclear Blast. The disc was recorded at
New Sound Studio with producer
Tommy Vetterli (
CORONER,
ELUVEITIE).
Murphy told
CrypticRock.com that the formation of
CELLAR DARLING came about naturally. "We always knew when we left
ELUVEITIE that we would continue playing music," she said. "We didn't actually have to discuss it a lot. We always wanted to play music with the three of us, and that was going to be a side project of some sort, but obviously things changed. The way we worked, we didn't plan our sound and we didn't have ideas of what genre it was going to be in. We just started composing; it was a very natural process. We met up at the rehearsal studio, jammed, and gathered ideas. That is how
CELLAR DARLING was created. It was all very organic and impulsive."
Regarding
CELLAR DARLING's musical direction,
Anna said: "I guess our only plan was to do something new and unique. It wouldn't been very exciting to do
ELUVEITIE 2; we had done that for 10 years. We wanted to do something that basically melts our three different characters. That is just what happened. We also were surprised a bit with the results; we didn't know what to expect from this collaboration. It is definitely different. I guess some of the folk parts are still in there because I play a folk instrument and it is some of our background, but now there are so much more influences that we can incorporate into our songwriting, including classical elements. That is something I have always loved and missed in our previous band. Yes, it a bit more experimental."