New debut album A Wicked Huntsman from California based Food for the Wyrm. The new musical project is the evolution of California singer-songwriter Beau James Wilding. A Wicked Huntsman is a folk record with punk and metal energies driving it forward, interpolated by psychedelic and doomful drone landscapes. The album is eight tracks with six core tracks represented by six flowers native to the Irish countryside, each in turn representing six traumatic life experiences– betrayal, loss, shame, cruelty, addiction and ignorance.
The album consists of three wholly original compositions, three traditional songs re-interpreted and re-imagined and two covers from the folk lexicon, both interpreted, modified and re-imagined by Beau. The song selections and feeling of the music is meant to bring darkness into the light, to transcend trauma to find clarity and purpose on the other side.
Food for the Wyrm is the evolution of California singer-songwriter Beau James Wilding into a darker, deeper and more aggressively expressive direction that embraces tones of doom, drone and traditional folk channeled with a determined passion to make the most of our one precious life. It is a psychic exploration and a passionate quest to turn fear into growth, dread into excitement and practice acceptance of the wisdom of the dark depths of the unconscious. We will all become food for the wyrm. She waits in silent darkness to devour us all. Death is certain, only the time of death is not known. the clock is ticking, don’t waste your time, don’t waste your life.
A Wicked Huntsman is the debut release of California south coast project Food for the Wyrm. The project originated from the work of singer-songwriter Beau James Wilding and is an extension of his inclination to dig deeper into tones that are gritty and rough. Originally recorded in the live room at Analogue Catalogue Studios in rural Ireland in summer of 2024 with “Irish” Tom (bodhran and shruti box) and Frank Martian (electric guitar/synthesizer), then honed and polished with overdubs and final mixing taking place at Castaway 7 Studios in Ventura, California. This is a folk record with punk and metal energies driving it forward, interpolated by psychedelic and doomful drone landscapes. The six core tracks are represented by six flowers native to the Irish countryside, each in turn representing six traumatic life experiences– betrayal, loss, shame, cruelty, addiction and ignorance. The concept is adroitly brought to life by artist Zein Hestnaes of Norway. The album consists of three wholly original compositions, three traditional songs re-interpreted and re-imagined and two covers from the folk lexicon, both interpreted, modified and re-imagined by Beau. The song selections and feeling of the music is meant to bring darkness into the light, to transcend trauma to find clarity and purpose on the other side.
