Witch Fever guide us track by track through their new album ‘FEVEREATEN’ which is out now via Music For Nations.

1. DEAD TO ME!

An angry one to kick off the album and tie this album into our first album Congregation. It’s about growing up as a girl expected to be sweet and cute and kind, but being let down by the church that promised to keep everyone safe but ended up putting me in vulnerable positions around unsafe people. It’s about reclaiming anger and finding comfort & power in it. It’s not about forgiveness, it’s about holding onto your power and using it productively.

2. FINAL GIRL

This one ties into Dead To Me. It’s about surviving all the shit you’ve gone through and using anger to fuel your desire to keep going. When I’m struggling I try to see myself as my own best friend, and believe that I already have everything I need to keep going. 

3. THE GARDEN

About Eve’s sins liberating me (metaphorically of course) and how I find inspiration through a story of someone in the bible that I was taught to hate. I guess it’s a bit of a love letter and an apology to all the women in history that have been looked down on by the patriarchy, and it’s about dealing with internalised misogyny that women have grown up with because of that. Also, Eve’s fuckin hot! 

4. NORTHSTAR

About my family and I feeling left behind by the church and losing my faith after they’d made big promises about always being ‘family’ and being a support network no matter what.

5. DRANK THE SAP

Drank the Sap was initially written about knowing a relationship I cherished was going to end, but since recording the album it’s taken on a different meaning for me. My mum died in September this year after a long battle with cancer, and now so many of the lyrics of this song remind me of sitting in the hospice with her waiting for her to pass. Every time we perform it I just think of her now. 

6. SAFE

A little love song! It was originally written when I was in a relationship, but after we broke up we became close friends so the song is a bittersweet ballad about a relationship turned friendship. 

7. FEVEREATEN

I wrote this when I realised I couldn’t stop writing about the church and what my family and I had been through. After Congregation I intended to move away from writing about it but I couldn’t help myself. It’s about feeling exhausted by the fact that I struggle to move on from it. It’s about feeling angry that I rely on support from others and seem to find life more difficult to move through than most of my friends because I was diagnosed with autism in my late 20s. The end makes way for a release though. The end leans into the frustration I feel and says that sometimes you just gotta let it swallow you up for a sec and enjoy living on the edge every once in a while. 

8. BURN TO HIT

Again, about religious trauma. About trying to fit into the mould that the church forced on us, but eventually breaking out of it. 

9. SEE YA NEXT TUESDAY

Another angry one! It’s about admitting that sometimes we all lean into self destruction, and it’s also about taking accountability for your mistakes and paving a way to being a better person and loving yourself. We called it see ya next tuesday coz I scream cunt at the end, but we also practice every Tuesday and have done for years so it has a cute lil double meaning.

10. REPRISE

Reprise is about feeling shame in being part of a church whose teachings I strongly disagree with. It’s about feeling haunted by the faith I used to have that now as an adult I couldn’t feel further away from. 

11. AMBER

Amber is about a tour fling! It’s about a situation that was super short lived and intense, but kinda beautiful because that’s all it could be.

12. I SEE IT

I See It pulls together the overarching theme of the album. It’s about being watched, haunted, followed by something but not being able to put your finger on what. I grew up thinking God was watching everything I did, and I’ve never quite been able to shake that feeling, despite being an atheist now. Is it God watching me, or am I being haunted by myself and my own past? It’s about seeing it in everything I do.