Wolves In The Throne Room
Black Cascade
(CD - LORD103)
Total Running Time: 50 minutes (approx)
Track listing:
- Wanderer Above The Sea of Fog
- Ahrimanic Trance
- Ex Cathedra
- Crystal Ammunition
Five years after they first emerged from the rain-soaked Cascadian underground, Wolves In The Throne Room return with Black Cascade, their third album for Southern Lord. their previous two studio albums Diadem Of The Twelve Stars and Two Hunters, established the band as a swiftly rising force in extreme metal, but with Black Cascade they have wholly transcended the limitations of the black metal label.
Black Cascade is characterized by a heavy and powerful analogue sound and a deft touch with songwriting and arrangement. The crumbling roar of decidedly old-school tube amps unite with layers of mossy analogue synthesiser and cataclysmic percussion. Blazing and crystalline metal riffs slowly collapse and shift into ritualistic dirges that invoke endless rain falling upon the ancient cedars of the pacific northwest. It is as if the instruments are controlled by shadowy and elemental forces of nature rather than three forest-dwellers from Olympia,WA.