In December 2020, MWWB were ready to start their next chapter. With their last album, 2019’s Yn Ol I Annwn (translated from Welsh as ‘Return To The Underworld’), the band formerly known as Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard had closed off a trilogy of expansive, transcendental releases that had explored existence and time, and solidified their unique, progressive take on doom.
Then on March 13, 2021, days before they were due to release their fourth album, Harvest, MWWB posted a shocking update on Instagram. Their guitarist and main riff writer, Paul ‘Dave’ Davies, was “fighting for his life” in hospital after contracting Covid earlier that year.
“Just after Christmas [2020], we were supposed to try and get together to do some promo photos,” remembers vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Jess Ball. “So in December, I was messaging Dave and he said, ‘I’m really poorly, I’ve got Covid.’ Then he said,
