All Them Witches Break Down New Album House of Mirrors Track by Track

All Them Witches have just unleashed their seventh album, House of Mirrors, and guitarist Ben McLeod and singer-bassist Charles Michael Parks, Jr. are giving Heavy Consequence an inside look at the LP with an exclusive track-by-track breakdown.

The Nashville rock band will support the album with a US tour in October that will see them playing 21 shows in 21 days, kicking off October 10th in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and running through an October 30th show in Cincinnati (pick up tickets here).

House of Mirrors marks All Them Witches’ first album in six years, and their first with new drummer Christian Powers, who joined the band in 2024. Along with today’s album release, All Them Witches have released a visualizer for the new single “Hold Up, Say What.”

Stream the full album, check out the visualizer for “Hold Up, Say What,” and read McLeod and Parks’ track-by-track breakdown of House of Mirrors below. Order the album on vinyl or CD via Amazon.

House of Mirrors Track by Track:

“Red Rocking Chair”

Parks: “‘I’ve actually been listening to ‘Red Rocking Chair’ since I was a kid. Usually, it’s done in a traditional bluegrass style. Ben had the riff, and it made me start singing those lyrics. We used to play bluegrass at after-show parties, in stairwells, and on the streets sometimes. So, ‘Red Rocking Chair’ ties into our old time-y rough touring days.”

Ben: “Hopefully, it retains some of our core stoner doom fans. I wrote the riff and the wiggly verse part with the intention that Parks would actually sing those ‘Red Rocking Chair’ lyrics over them. He didn’t know it at first, but he wasn’t going to be allowed to say, ‘No’ [Laughs]. Live, we play our song ‘Swallowed By The Sea’ every now and then, and Parks would sub out the ‘Red Rocking Chair’ lyrics at shows. Fans had always asked about it, and I thought it should finally be its own song.”

“Culling Line”

Parks: “You’re casting off things that don’t serve you or slow you down. In the simplest terms, a ‘Culling’ is a thinning of the herd. I wrote it on my bass guitar at home. I always joke that bass is the least interesting instrument to sit around and play alone. This was one of those earworm riffs that worked though.”

Ben: “After Parks wrote the music and lyrics, we came up with the chord changes during the solo section as a band. We didn’t have an ending for it, but I was learning the main riff by playing it constantly. I kept repeating it over and over, and everyone agreed it should be the ending. We were definitely going for Black Sabbath.”

“Aethernet”

Parks: “Allan wrote the chord structures for this one. It’s the most straightforward bluesy song on the record. It might be the most fun tune as well.”

“Hold Up, Say What”

Ben: “There’s a beautiful juxtaposition between the fast verses and this beautiful dropout bridge. We try to take advantage of any opportunity for Allan to put violin on a song. I also think it’s one of our best production pieces as a band.”

Parks: “I’d been messing around with the riff for a long time. The words were stream-of-consciousness. They’re like different characters in my mind. It’s a conversational song where you get two or three voices arguing back and forth.”