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Superlatives like “gorgeous” and “beautiful” are hardly used when describing black metal, but Olympia, Washington’s Wolves In the Throne Room have tapped into a vein of the genre that expands its more ambient backdrops to create a third studio album that is as bewitching as it is dark. “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog” opens Black Cascade with an immediate release of drum blasts as Nathan Weaver screams incantations like an age-old woodland necromancer casting spells. Almost halfway through the song, the peripheral ambient soundscapes become the movement’s vanguard, liquefying into a bottomless lake of sound. “Ahrimanic Trance” builds on more ghostly backdrops while guitars continuously ascend against a relentless rhythms section that rains down ferociously. Field recordings of running river water introduce the dramatic “Ex Cathedra,” before “Crystal Ammunition” approximates frostbitten landscapes with over 14 minutes of savage turbulence.

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Wolves In The Throne Room Goes Raw

Abandoning some of the ambient characteristics of their past releases, Wolves In The Throne Room has channeled their black metal roots in an effort to create their most raw album to date. While some WITTR fans will miss the occasional "softer" elements (such as female vocals or ambient passages), most fans will embrace the raw emotion portrayed by the black metal pride of the U.S. WITTR has said that this album is specifically catering to the band's desire to perform live, so I look forward to seeing this album translate into a mind-shattering performance!

really pootsnap?

his review actually made me write one lol. just because of the unfairness. ahem... This album has brought me back to metal for a bit. I don't like the stuff in general because it all sounds the same to me, but I hear some creativity and real emotion in these songs. I'm impressed, to say the least. Decent metal is hard to come by

supernal

I first got into WITTR when they played a show at my university (of all places) in October 2007 and I immediately connected with their music at a very deep level. I remember laying in my dorm after the show listening to the "Two Hunters" album I had just bought and how the landscape that the music created was so immersive that I could place myself into it's realm and see how all the feelings and emotions within the music were paralleled by feelings within my own life during that period. Black Cascade is the same way; immerse yourself in it and you will feel as though you are floating upon an endless ocean of consciousness. Some parts are violent and stormy, other parts are foggy and oppressive, and finally there are parts that are calm and profoundly beautiful.

Biography

Formed: Olympia, WA

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '00s, '10s

Comprising dual vocalist/guitarists Rick and Nathan, plus drummer Aaron, Olympia, WA's Wolves in the Throne Room deal in dour black metal epics inspired by long, bleak winters, pagan legends, and Scandinavian bands like Darkthrone, Windir, and Enslaved. Honing their dark craft with two EPs in 2004 and 2005, the trio...
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