Track By Tracks: Seum/Temple Of The Fuzz Witch - Conjuring (Split) (2025)

1. Temple of The Fuzz Witch - Effigy:

Noah (Temple of The Fuzz Witch - Vocals/Guitar): Effigy starts off by setting an ominous and hopeless mood for the next three tracks. Effigy delves into truths of how bleak and empty all of life really is. You might as well burn an effigy because this world is all damned.

2. Temple of The Fuzz Witch - Eternal Lamentation:

Noah: Eternal Lamentation is a continuation of Effigy’s intent. Except Eternal Lamentation is a much more personal and introspective journey throughout the lyrics. The song hits the listener with uneasiness, sorrow, and blunt anger.

3. Temple of The Fuzz Witch - Foul of Shades:

Noah: Foul of Shades is a metaphorical story about an individual seeking out an oracle to find out about inter-dimensional beings and inter-dimensional truths. The individual meets the oracle and has the knowledge bestowed. Once the individual has the knowledge, it becomes overwhelming and the individual makes advances and turns people to the truth that there is only one truth…

4. SEUM - Dead Ear:

Piotr (SEUM - Bass): When Black Throne reached out to propose a split with Temple of the Fuzz Witch, we took some time to reflect on how we could make this project cohesive while being so different musically - digging back to past traumas our answer to get into the right creative mood. As a teenager, our singer Gaspard lost an ear during a night spent around a bonfire on drugs in the woods. Dead Ear is about it, it is our most personal and straightforward song to date. As musicians, we dig a lot of different music genres, but Gaspard has a special spot for Black Metal. Being such a personal topic for him, we embraced a black metal aesthetic for this track for the first time.

5. SEUM - Problems:

Piotr: Issues are the main topics treated in the songs we recorded for Conjuring. Problems was the first single released for the project and as it is a bit lighter than the two other tracks it was meant as an introduction for our audience to the darker and more serious tone of the rest of the project. The song is about aging, midlife crisis, and modern life chaos.

6. SEUM - Efrit:

Piotr: We had our first drug experiences as kids with Moroccan Hashish. Cheap, mixed with weird stuff - the urban legend claims it was tires - it was a way to escape our daily teenage boredom but it could also take you on the worst paranoid trip. We used an unusual scale on this song bringing oriental images while still sounding heavy: desert, heat, fire, and smoke. We naturally started thinking about Arabic mythology and we then discovered Éfrit, a cunning Arabic demon that we used as a metaphor for those drugged-out days. It eventually inspired us to write one of our heaviest songs to date: Éfrit chose us as her sons.