Dorthia Cottrell, vocalist of Richmond, VA doom metal band Windhand, has announced her new solo album “Death Folk Country“. That opus will receive an April 21st release on Relapse Records.
Speaking of the album and its inspiration, she offered:
“This album to me is about painting a picture of a place where my heart lives. The title Death Folk Country is partly me describing a genre that fits the sound – but it’s also meant to be taken as a Naming, a coronation of the world inside me. Death Folk Country is the music and also the land where the music takes place, and the two have always been inextricable from each other.”
The song “Family Annihilator” has been chosen as the first single and a video for it directed by Richard Francis Howard has debuted below. While just now being released, the songs origins date back over a decade, with a press release offering:
‘The album’s lead single “Family Annihilator” directly speaks to the unease and tension of Cottrell‘s surroundings. “Porch lights keep the demons at bay,” she sings over crashing cymbals and a field recording of birds. “I had never played it before, I kind of brought it out of the attic,” Cottrell says of the song.
Despite being over a decade old, “Family Annihilator” spoke to the moment she was in. With the threat of another four years of conservative offices in power, Cottrell thought of family back in the South who would be voting, and remembered something her grandfather, a farmer, had told her years ago: “If a crop is diseased, you have to burn the whole crop.” “‘Family Annihilator’ is a result of me wondering if the whole field must burn today, to save the flowers of tomorrow.”‘
