CWFEN
The witchy Glaswegians stuck it to the patriarchy, with a little help from some kittens
WORDS: LIZ SCARLETT
PRESS/ADAM MOFFATT
It was during a midnight drive through the storm-lashed Scottish wilderness in 2022 that frontwoman Agnes Alder decided to turn Cwfen from a synthwave project into a metal one.
“I remember very distinctly, travelling from Glasgow to Fife – a place steeped in witchcraft history – looking out at that great, flat expanse,” she recalls. “At The Stake by Melvins came on the radio, and there was fork lightning around me. I knew then that I wanted to make music that sounded like that. You could almost feel the weight of the horror that had happened in that landscape.”