"...the band delivers its most stunning work in years, a true blast from its thunderous roots." - Outburn
"True to its name, Wolves In The Throne Room has always painted between the lines of barbaric and regal. For over a decade it has been this between-space that has driven WITTR's power; burning black-metal riffs communing with mystical folk and ambient music." - NPR
This Friday, September 22nd, one of the most potent and highly regarded bands in heavy metal today -Wolves In The Throne Room - will open a portal into their mythic ethereal heathen landscape with the release of Thrice Woven, via their own label Artemisia Records.On Thrice Woven, WITTR re-imagine black metal as an ode to rain storms, wood smoke and the wild energies of the Pacific Northwest; it a glorious return to the blazing and furious Black Metal that they alone can create.Listen to the album in full today via Noisey.
Thrice Woven begins with "Born from the Serpent’s Eye" a true thrashing black metal epic that is bisected with a haunting northern lament sung by Swedish star Anna von Hausswolff."The Old Ones Are With Us" opens with the crackling of a fire and the voice of Steve Von Till (Neurosis) invoking the springtime thaw.It then storms into a dirge inspired by 90’s Finnish doom with lyrics that celebrate Imbolc, the holy day which marks the end of winter and the first stirrings of spring. Figures from Norse mythology intertwine with personal heartbreak and rebirth in the bleak "Angrboda."The song is named after a frost giantess who birthed Fenrir Wolf, a beast who was destined to destroy the world and murder the gods.
A raven’s wings stir the air in the interlude "Mother Owl, Father Ocean."Anna von Hausswolff returns in a duet with Turkish harpist Zeynep Oyku, forlorn industrial atmospheres haunt the mix, Hausswolff’s lyrics, sung in Swedish, echo over a barren gray seascape. "Fires Roar in the Palace of the Moon" is the classic Cascadian Black Metal epic, the third eye opens to see holy rivers being born from the ice on the tallest peaks, the lyrics offer blessings to the waters of the earth as they flow from the high places to the source of darkness, the ocean.
Catch Wolves In The Throne Room on tour across Planet Earth throughout 2017 in support of Thrice Woven:
WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM, ON TOUR: September 29Boise, ID @ Neurolux September 30Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall October 2Colorado Springs, CO @ Black Sheep October 3Albuquerque, NM @ Launch Pad October 5Houston, TX @ White Oak (downstairs) October 6New Orleans, LA @ Siberia October 7Birmingham, AL @ Zydeco October 9Tampa, FL @ Crowbar October 10Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade Hell October 11Richmond, VA @ Capital Ale House October 12Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Sound Stage October 13Brooklyn, NY @ Villain October 14Pittsburgh, PA @ Villain October 16Cincinnati, OH @ The Taft Ballroom October 17St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall October 18Oklahoma City, OK @ 89th St. Collective October 20Tucson, AZ @ 191 Toole October 21Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex October 22Berkeley, CA @ Cornerstone October 23Portland, OR @ Tonic Lounge October 24Portland, OR @ Tonic Lounge October 25Olympia, WA @ Obsidian
November 12McDade, TX @ Sound On Sound Festival
November 15 Zagreb, HR @ Vintage Industrial Bar November 16 Innsbruck, AT @ PMK November 17 Dresden, CZ @ Beatpol November 18 Wroclaw, PL @ Firlej November 19 Berlin, DE @ Bi Nuu November 20 Moscow, RU @ Volta November 21 St Petersburg, RU @ Opera November 22 Helsinki, FIN @ Tavastia November 23 Stockholm, SE @ Kraken November 24 Oslo, NO @ Bla November 26 Aarhus, DK @ Voxhall November 27Bochum, DE @ BHF Langendreer November 28 Utrecht, NL @ Pandora November 29 Tilburg, NL @ 013 Popcentre November 30 London, UK @ Heaven December 1 Manchester, UK @ Rebellion Club December 2 Glasgow, UK @ St Luke's December 4 Dublin, IRE @ Whelans December 5 Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club December 6 Bristol, UK @ The Fleece December 7 Brighton, UK @ The Haunt December 8 Paris, FR @ Glazart December 9 Limoges, FR @ Festival de Noël #25 December 10 Toulouse, FR @ Le Rex December 12 Bern, CH @ Dachstock - Reitschule December 13 Schorndorf, DE @ Club Manufaktur December 14 Leuven, BE @ Stuk December 15 Athens, GR @ Gagarin 205
Thrice Woven, track listing:
1.Born from the
Serpent’s Eye
2.The Old Ones Are
With Us
3.Angrboda
4.Mother Owl, Father Ocean
5.Fires Roar in the
Palace of the Moon
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