WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM — Thrice Woven (review)

WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM — Thrice Woven album cover Album · 2017 · Atmospheric Black Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Warthur
Wolves In the Throne Room took a good while to come up with a true black metal successor to Celestial Lineage; Celestite, the album that came between that and this, was fairly evidently a momentary diversion into electronic ambient music for the sake of stretching their musical muscles rather than a long-term future direction for the group.

With Thrice Woven, they return to the atmospheric black metal field with the lessons learned from Celestite integrated into their sound, with various ambient interludes woven into the album. These are always delicately and carefully constructed - we're not going full dungeon synth Casio keyboard early Mortiis here - and both the ambient sections and black metal sections are great, but at the same time they feel like just that - distinct sections which don't really feel like part of a cohesive whole. They do sit next to each other real purty though.

Whilst this isn't as essential as some Wolves In the Throne Room work, at the end of the day even second-tier Wolves represents a great ride as far as atmospheric black metal goes, and the wolves would seem to be secure on their thrones for the time being.
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666sharon666 wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Best WITTR album since Two Hunters IMO.
Nightfly wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Features the remarkable Anna Von Hausswolff I believe. Sounded very good.

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