Ireland’s Uragh have released the single “The Widening Gyre” from their upcoming album Maelstrom (April 19th). The song finds Craig Murphy (vocals), Marcelo Varge (guitar), Sebastian Sparr (bass), and Jason Hodgkins (drums) drifting into the progressive side versus their harsher metal side.
On the song, Craig says,
“I wrote the song about an occurrence of a tragic incident that had taken place in one’s life in the past. Such an incident that isn’t just remembered by piecing fragments of a distant memory together, but rather a full on dramatic play with cascading effects on one’s ‘state of mind’. Lyrics such as ‘The torment, eats away, gnawing at the matter’. The torment refering to the ‘incident’ and ‘matter’ referring to brain matter and the cascading effects caused by the incident that had happened.”
He further adds,
“In the lyrics of the soft section of the song, ‘Whatever happened to, the freedom of blame, that we all crave’ is a desire to be set free of guilt or accusations, once again, referring to the incident in the past. ‘Those careful steps, could never detect, the landmines are set in my head’ shows the unpredictability and danger of navigating one’s thoughts and emotions.”
Heavy in music and vocalisation, yet poignant in lyrics, “The Widening Gyre” is a look at the personal turmoil and emotional resilience that happens to the human psyche.
