Black Cascade

Buy the album on vinyl or CD here: US: www.artemisia-store.com Europe: eu.kingsroadmerch.com/artemisia-records Black Cascade is characterized by a heavy and powerful analog sound, and a deft touch with songwriting and arrangement. The crumbling roar of decidedly old-school tube amps unite with layers of mossy analog synthesizer 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.

After two exceptional black metal records, Wolves in the Throne Room return this year with a new EP and LP.

Wolves In The Throne Room began their second album, 2007’s Two Hunters, by pulling a hazy cloud of stately doom-drone over themselves before launching into black-metal convulsions. Their third full-length, Black Cascade, boasts plenty of layers and meditative breakdowns of its own, but they feel more like the…

More abrasive and aggressive than its predecessor, 2009’s BLACK CASCADE sees the Olympia-based Wolves in the Throne Room moving away from the sprawling ambient compositions of 2007's TWO HUNTERS and returning to their black metal roots.

What polarizes many in the metal community about Wolves in the Throne Room isn't necessarily their music but the band's message.

Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade review: Wolves in the Throne Room swap personality for aggression.