Wire Worms formed within the Leeds underground scene in 2023. The 6-piece ‘Doom-Folk Supergroup’ (Songlines) and ‘Iconoclastic Neo-Folk Collective’ (Folk London) - constituted by members of Tristwch Y Fenywod, Sh!t Theatre, and Hexham Heads - explores British folk music in a manner that ‘delves deep into tradition but isn't shackled by it’ (Louder than War). Their latest album - Beneath the Eildon Tree - continues the established Wire Worms method of disassembling medieval literature and ‘blowing folksong apart with the nebular chaos of noise and black metal’ (The Wire), only to rebuild them in a manner that extricates both the strangeness and the ongoing pertinence of these ancient songs and texts… ‘as with all the best modern traditional recordings, in drawing on this long past Wire Worms speak directly to the present moment’ (The Quietus).

Released by Cruel Nature Records in 2026, Beneath the Eildon Tree was forged through ‘a blend of myth, metal, and menace’ (Songlines); exploring prophecy and madness within the traditional music and poetry of Britain, Ireland, and the Isle of Man. It loosely follows the figure of Thomas the Rhymer - a 13th Century Scottish prophet - through eschatological visions and 800 years of musical and literary traditions. At its core, Beneath the Eildon Tree explores Millenarianism, an ambiguous utopianism within which lurks a desire for destruction and metamorphic violence; the new world can only be born through the death of the old.

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