Wolves in the Throne Room
One of my favorite metal albums of 2006 (a year with a lot of great metal albums) was A Diadem of 12 Stars by Wolves in the Throne Room. It was a perfect mix of intensity and atmospherics. Like fellow Northwesterns Agalloch, WitTR made Black Metal sound fresh and new again by mixing the brutal and ambient sides of the genre with folk music. The Black Metal of Wolves in the Throne Room is a new kind of Black Metal, a Black Metal that comes from the way that the band lives their life. The band lives together in a house in the country and try to live an organic and self-sufficient life. They grow their own food and raise their own livestock.
Wolves in the Throne Room have a new album coming out. It’s called Two Hunters and its being released on Southern Lord. If there was one flaw with A Diadem of 12 Stars, it was that the band laid out all their ideas on the first track and then just manipulated those ideas on the other tracks. Two Hunters has a lot more variety and is a better album. I’m posting an edit of the last and heaviest track “I Will Lay Down My Bones Among the Rocks and Roots” that Southern Lord has up on their website.
They’re also going to be playing at Mac’s Bar in Lansing on October 21st. I’m there.
Wolves in the Throne Room - I Will Lay Down My Bones Among the Rocks and Roots (edit) from Two Hunters
