Witch Fever
FEVEREATEN
Release Date: Oct 31, 2025
Genre(s): Punk, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
Record label: Music for Nations
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Album Review: FEVEREATEN by Witch Fever
Excellent, Based on 3 Critics
Based on rating 4/5
Witch Fever weave doom, punk, goth and noise into the fabric of their second album, FEVEREATEN. Alongside Chris W. Ryan's production, the four-piece band sounds balanced and unified. Continuing on from their debut, Congregation, FEVEREATEN unpacks religious (and other) trauma through allegory and personal narrative.
Opinion: Excellent
There are people out there who instinctively associate colours and pictures with sounds - a condition known as chromesthesia - and then there are those who can make the average person associate colours and pictures with music via their own ability to craft atmosphere. Witch Fever are the latter, conjuring images of swimming in basslines and trudging through hefty guitar riffs on this second album, 'FEVEREATEN'. Here, songs tower over like evergreens in a forest, crashing in from above like a veil of pouring rain to sweep everything away like an avalanche, an immersion into the natural world the band have constructed.
Opinion: Very Good
"I wear this crown / I didn't ask for it," singer Amy Walpole laments on the title track off ‘FEVEREATEN’, Witch Fever's sophomore album. The Manchester four-piece's 2022 debut, ‘Congregation’, was largely dominated by Walpole reckoning with her traumatic past, growing up in the Charismatic Church. It is a past that she still cannot escape, though now, she addresses its themes through a matured voice, balanced with a resentment still bubbling underneath.
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