Winterfylleth and longtime bassist Nick Wallwork have parted methods. Wallwork performed for Winterfylleth between 2009 and 2025, and contributed fairly a little bit of acoustic guitar enjoying to the band’s information over time. Wallwork is changed by Mark Doyle, who additionally performs with Wallwork in Arð.
Wallwork shared the next assertion: “It isn’t with a heavy coronary heart however with a thought-about sense of self-reflection that I come to announce my departure from Winterfylleth. I look again over the past 16 years with a joyous sense of feat and satisfaction and am glad to be stepping away now at this level in my life and need the band all one of the best as they proceed into their subsequent part.
“I want to guarantee everybody that this isn’t a choice that has been taken calmly on my half and has been one within the making for the previous few years, since earlier than we began to write down The Imperious Horizon. It was my private ambition to do another album and to honour that materials reside onstage, which we have now now completed on plenty of events. I’m additionally very glad to be stepping away following an album which I feel is likely one of the strongest within the band’s catalogue and I stand by it with excessive satisfaction and see it as a becoming bookend to my tenure within the band.
“I’ve had a few of the most superb experiences of my life while being part of Winterfylleth and it has allowed me to expertise issues I beforehand would by no means have been uncovered to. From candlelit acoustic reveals in St Pancras Outdated Church, European excursions and competition appearances alongside a few of our most notable friends and influences to easily seeing my very own music pressed onto vinyl for the primary time. These are all lifelong recollections I’ll cherish without end.
“On a private word, I might additionally prefer to want all the perfect to my good buddy Mark Doyle who can be taking the torch from me going forwards. Mark and I’m going method again to Excessive College days, enjoying music collectively there for the very first time in varied kinds and, in fact, extra lately onstage once more within the reside lineup for Arð. Winterfylleth has at all times been a really shut knit unit and I could not consider a greater particular person to be stepping up and taking issues ahead – being a really gifted, versatile musician in his personal proper. I am certain he’ll waste no time in bringing his personal abilities to the fore and assist the band transfer forwards into their new chapter.
“I want to personally thank all of the individuals who have labored alongside myself and the band intently on the journey over time however principally I increase my glass to my fellow bandmates over the course – to Russell Dobson, Mark Deeks, Dan Capp, Mark Wooden and naturally Simon Lucas and Chris Naughton who have been adequate to welcome me into the rehearsal room at Strangeways Studio in Manchester again in 2009 as we put collectively materials for The Mercian Sphere – ETERNAL HAILS to you all.
“Lastly, thanks to everybody who has supported each myself and Winterfylleth over the past 16 years. See you all down the highway and on the bar.”
Winterfylleth additionally issued their very own assertion, saying: “Associates, We have now some unhappy information to deliver to you all at present…
“After giving his all for 16 years, 7 albums, 2 reside albums, varied EPs, in addition to performances at virtually each present we have now ever undertaken, Nick Wallwork has taken the choice to hold up his guitar and retire from Winterfylleth.
“In some methods it’s an unattainable activity to attempt to quantify the depth & significance of Nick‘s contribution to Winterfylleth inside only a few paragraphs. However, for sure, his presence inside our quantity enabled us to up our recreation, and push ourselves in the direction of the true path and method we might finally find yourself taking as a band. His signature Bass enjoying, his expertise on the Classical Acoustic Guitar & his Lead Guitar creativity have all moved us into unchartered territories, each sonically and stylistically. However greater than all of that, he has been an incredible bandmate and buddy to us all, at each step of the way in which alongside our profession to this point.
“Since our early days, Nick has been an integral a part of the band and an enormous driving power behind the songwriting and growth of our sound. Simon & I’ve at all times considered Nick as an ‘unique member’, regardless of him not being on the debut album, as a result of it was solely after his becoming a member of that we actually developed the path we needed to take the band in. His inclusion was additionally the purpose at which we genuinely turned a ‘correct band’ and never only a studio undertaking for the primary time.
“Whereas there isn’t any animosity or influence on {our relationships} in his departing (and certainly he’ll nonetheless be round for Arð, and our different much less intensive tasks) it’s nonetheless tough to be dropping the skills of an amazing musician and buddy from our important endeavours as Winterfylleth. It takes so much from an individual to be in a band for the lengthy haul – each when it comes to the time & continuous efforts wanted to keep up it and push it forwards. All of this having to be accomplished round the remainder of life’s many necessities.
“It goes with out saying that Nick‘s presence can be vastly missed by us all, and that he’ll at all times stay, to us, a member of Winterfylleth. In his parting, we have now come to simply accept that life dictates different priorities for everybody at varied levels all through its course, and that there are different ‘peaks that have to be climbed’ for us all. So, all of us assist his choice to progress into the following chapter of his life.
“I hope you’ll be a part of us in thanking Nick for every part he has accomplished whereas in Winterfylleth these final 16 years!
“To minimize the blow of his shifting on from that band, we have now (Nick included) been engaged on discovering an appropriate substitute for his function in Winterfylleth. After cautious reflection we’re happy to announce that Mark Doyle (a detailed buddy, and in addition a reside member of Arð) can be becoming a member of the band on Bass Guitar & Backing Vocals. These eagle-eyed amongst you should have seen that Mark has been across the band for a very long time, and has stepped as much as carry out with us on plenty of events over current years, the place one in all us was unable to take action. Most lately he appeared with us on Lead Guitar at March Into Walhalla Competition 2025 within the Netherlands. We are going to proceed to work intently with Mark behind the scenes and we will return anew for the following set of reveals in Summer time 2025.”
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