Celestial Lineage

Buy the album on vinyl or CD here: US: www.artemisia-store.com Europe: eu.kingsroadmerch.com/artemisia-records Celestial Lineage was written and recorded over the first six months of 2011. The Weaver brothers worked with producer/mystic Randall Dunn (Earth, Boris, SUNN 0))), Cave Singers, Bjork/Omar Souleyman), with whom the band has developed a close relationship since their first collaboration on 2007’s Two Hunters. 3 songs are bejeweled by Jessika Kenney’s liturgical choir and solo voice. Aaron Turner (ISIS) also contributes orations to the maelstrom. The band has said that It is the final record in a trilogy that began with Two Hunters. Syncronistically, it is also the last record that will be recorded at Randall Dunn’s storied Aleph studio, which has been the birthplace for scores of groundbreaking records over the past 10 years. For this release, the band enlisted photographer Allison Scarpulla to create dimension-bending images in the Olympic mountains and around the band's Olympia stronghold. In keeping with WITTR's aesthetic, Scarpulla relies on unorthodox analog techniques.

The Olympia, Wash., black-metal band returns with the climactic, colossal, final installment in a trilogy that started with their 2007 album, Two Hunters. Here, they mix lengthy tracks with heavily textured interludes and make beautiful use of vocals from collaborator Jessika Kenney.

Much has been made—mostly by the band itself—of Wolves In The Throne Room’s hermetic existence in the arboreal wilds of Oregon. Amid the cedars, the story goes, sit brothers Aaron and Nathan Weaver, communing with earth spirits and crafting ambitious, atmospheric black-metal hymns. The latest of those hymns is Celestia…

Over the course of their impressive first three albums, Portland, Oregon-based sibling duo Wolves in the Throne Room have established, arguably even steadily incremented, their place on the front lines of the American black metal scene.

Album review: Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestite. Not particularly black, definitely not metal… But really rather brilliant.

I would be willing to bet that the early Norwegian black metal bands didn’t anticipate their style of music to actually last for a decade, let alone two. Such pivotal acts like Darkthrone, Burzum, and Emperor have inspired bands the world over, and their early 90s material are frequently cited as ge

Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage review: An album of muted progression and fading inspiration