Swedish doom folk pioneers WITCHCRAFT are set to release their new 5-track EP "A Sinner's Child" on Heavy Psych Sounds Records this March 13th, and unveil its soul-stirring title track now!
Following the monumental critical success of their 2025 comeback album “IDAG”, Sweden's iconic heavy rock unit Witchcraft return with a striking and intimate new chapter: "A Sinner's Child".
Founder, vocalist, and visionary Magnus Pelander strips the sound to its soul on this new 5-track EP. Moving between the melodic proto-doom depth of songs like "Drömmen Om Död Och Förruttnelse" and "Själen Reser Sig", and the luminous folk of lead single "A Sinner's Child" and its sequel "Sinner's Clear Confusion", to the soulful acoustic dirge of "Even Darker Days", these songs are woven from a more personal, immediate thread by the magnetic multi-instrumentalist.
The "A Sinner's Child" EP presents Pelander’s songwriting in its most stirring and vulnerable form — a direct conduit to the haunting melodies and emotional depth that have defined Witchcraft’s legacy for over two decades. It’s a testament to the timeless power of a voice, a melody, and the raw materials of rock, distilled to their essence, and a potent epilogue to "IDAG".
WITCHCRAFT "A Sinners's Child" EP
Out March 13th on Heavy Psych Sounds
International preorder - US preorder
TRACKLIST:1. Drömmen Om Död Och Förruttnelse 2. Sinner's Child 3. Even Darker Days 4. Själen Reser Sig 5. Sinner's Clear Confusion
The storyline of Witchcraft’s growth, from Pelander’s starting the band in Örebro in 2000 in the wake of his prior outfit Norrsken’s disbanding. A generational landmark of a 2004 self-titled debut helped spark a retroist movement that has become its own subgenre, but Witchcraft never stopped growing. 2005’s ‘Firewood’ and 2007’s ‘The Alchemist’ introduced more progressive sounds, and five years later, the pointedly modern ‘Legend’ established in 2012 that they had moved beyond the analog worship they had been a part of pioneering within the contemporary heavy rock and doom scene.
In 2016, the 2LP ‘Nucleus’ introduced fuller-toned doom, and 2020’s ‘Black Metal’ diverged into moody acoustic minimalism familiar to some fans from Pelander’s early solo work, but different from anything Witchcraft had done prior. More than 20 years after their debut, Witchcraft’s seventh album and Heavy Psych Sounds Records debut ‘IDAG’ (2025) is an awaited full accounting of who they are as a band. It is the tie that draws all of this – more than two decades of exploring and growth – together. Whatever they’ve done in the past and whatever they’ll do in the future, ‘IDAG’ feels like a nexus for defining who and what Witchcraft are. Even crazier, that might be the point of the thing. – Words by JJ Koczan
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