“Alchemy. Alchemist. Wizard. I love it when magic happens.” This is how Margot Day of Metamorph describes the band’s new album Kiss of the Witch. Produced by Erik Gustafson, who Day says takes her songs, her voice and flute, recorded in the jungle and forest, and using his own form of alchemy creates “intoxicating and melodic song elixirs”. With a bewitching blend of Electro Goth, Kiss of the Witch is a beautifully woven Gothic love story of sorts.
“Once upon a time there was a girl and her and her true love were caught in a world apocalyptic avalanche that opened a portal. The Avalanche trapped her true love in lockdown in the Star Fort. She goes on a journey quest through the towns and the forests hoping to find the magic that will reunite her with her twin flame and save the world. She sees the magic shoes in the Witch’s store window. The Witches have been waiting for her, saving the magic shoes for her. She puts on the shoes, the magic star pentagram on her forehead activates her superpowers – it’s the Kiss of the Witch. She magically teleports to the Star Fort, and her kiss awakens her twin flame – causing a ripple effect - and the world to awakens from the nightmare dream that is engulfing many of us now with the politics, climate change, war, pandemic. Twin Flames united. Love wins. Magic and Love save the world.”
Is the lyrical way that Day encapsulates this magical and luscious album.
The first track on the album “Love in the Wreckage” uses hypnotic beats and provocative lyrics to entice and lead the listener through a chaotic and apocalyptic landscape. The title track of the album “Kiss of the Witch” beguiles and seduces with its beautifully solicitous lyrics and its seductive vocals.
The alluring combination of Day and daughter Julifer Day’s vocals in the remake of the 80s song “Empress” by Goth New York based band The Plague, originally headed by Day, is spellbinding.
Inspired by the Queen of the Night flower and its euphoric perfume, Day wrote and recorded the song “Poison In The Air”. The Queen of the Night flower is a very large hallucinogenic flower that blooms at night and is poisonous to some people. Exhilarated by what Day describes as the “perfect goth flower”, the song “Poison in the Air” has a mesmerizing beat with dark undertones. The song both transports the listener into soporific worldly dimensions while having an undercurrent that hints at a frustration with world politics. With a dreamy electro beat “Dream Curve’ lulls and caresses as it creates a tempting soundscape.
“I won’t fall apart if you hold me heart to bloody heart”, proclaims the lyrics in the captivating song “Heart to Bloody Heart”. Creating an undulating gothic landscape littered with iconography and emotive vocals “Heart to Bloody Heart” is a gothic wish of hope and redemption. The last song on the album is a tantalizing club dance remix of “Love in the Wreckage” from Xris SMack.
Kiss of the Witch is a beautifully crafted dark Gothic fairytale of love, hope and magic.
Links :
Bandcamp : https://margotday.bandcamp.com/album/kiss-of-the-witch
YouTube: https://youtu.be/FyesUmkrk64
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/Metamorphmusic
