WINTERFYLLETH Splits With Bassist NICK WALLWORK

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 data 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 of sense of self-reflection that I come to announce my departure from Winterfylleth. I look again during the last 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 want the band all the perfect as they proceed into their subsequent section.

“I want to guarantee everybody that this isn’t a call that has been taken frivolously 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 yet another album and to honour that materials stay onstage, which we now have now completed on a lot of events. I’m additionally very glad to be stepping away following an album which I believe is among 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 number 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 From candlelit acoustic reveals in St Pancras Outdated Church, European excursions and pageant appearances alongside a few of our most notable friends and influences to easily seeing my very own music pressed onto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 endlessly.

“On a private word, I might additionally prefer to want all the easiest to my good good friend Mark Doyle who shall be taking the torch from me going forwards. Mark and I am going manner again to Excessive Faculty days, enjoying music collectively there for the very first time in varied kinds and, in fact, extra lately onstage once more within the stay lineup for Arð. Winterfylleth has at all times been a really shut knit unit and I could not consider a greater individual to be stepping up and taking issues ahead – being a really gifted, versatile musician in his personal proper. I am positive he’ll waste no time in bringing his personal skills 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 carefully on the journey over time however principally I elevate 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 ok 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 during the last 16 years. See you all down the highway and on the bar.”

Winterfylleth additionally issued their very own assertion, saying: “Mates, We have now some unhappy information to carry to you all at the moment…

“After giving his all for 16 years, 7 albums, 2 stay albums, varied EPs, in addition to performances at virtually each present we now have ever undertaken, Nick Wallwork has taken the choice to hold up his guitar and retire from Winterfylleth.

“In some methods it’s an not possible job to try to quantify the depth & significance of Nick‘s contribution to Winterfylleth inside just some paragraphs. However, for sure, his presence inside our quantity enabled us to up our recreation, and push ourselves in direction of the true path and method we’d finally find yourself taking as a band. His signature Bass enjoying, his abilities 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 a tremendous bandmate and good friend to us all, at each step of the way in which alongside our profession up to now.

“Since our early days, Nick has been an integral a part of the band and an enormous driving pressure 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 really developed the path we wished to take the band in. His inclusion was additionally the purpose at which we genuinely grew to become a ‘correct band’ and never only a studio challenge for the primary time.

“Whereas there isn’t a animosity or impression 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 troublesome to be shedding the skills of an excellent musician and good friend from our essential endeavours as Winterfylleth. It takes quite a bit from an individual to be in a band for the lengthy haul – each by way of the time & continuous efforts wanted to keep up it and push it forwards. All of this having to be performed round the remainder of life’s many necessities.

“It goes with out saying that Nick‘s presence shall be tremendously missed by us all, and that he’ll at all times stay, to us, a member of Winterfylleth. In his parting, we now have come to just 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 resolution to progress into the subsequent chapter of his life.

“I hope you’ll be part of us in thanking Nick for every little thing he has performed whereas in Winterfylleth these final 16 years!

“To reduce the blow of his shifting on from that band, we now have (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 (an in depth good friend, and in addition a stay member of Arð) shall be becoming a member of the band on Bass Guitar & Backing Vocals. These eagle-eyed amongst you’ll have observed that Mark has been across the band for a very long time, and has stepped as much as carry out with us on a lot of events over latest years, the place certainly one of 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 carefully with Mark behind the scenes and we will return anew for the subsequent set of reveals in Summer season 2025.”