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Recommended by us on 26th February 2009
...according to our Brian on Thu 26 Feb, 2009.
Now the logical conclusion to all serious alternative music (rather than the noise route) should be Wolves in The Throne Room who combine what was once supposed to be Black Metal with shoegaze/post rock textures. They seem to have ditched the harder edge already & embraced a more melodic path, employing a female vocalist for this 2 track journey, titled 'Malevolent Grain'. The first track is pretty damn impressive, sounding more like the recent Jesu stuff, foreboding, yet cleansing and pure, the noise cascading round your ears but caressing rather than damaging your nervous system, Jamie Myers voice sad, powerful & rich. She makes this dense & hauntingly melodic epic her own, like Julianne Regan if she listened to Godspeed & Isis. Except cooler, of course! I've not time to comment on the other side but, honestly, 'A Looming Resonance' is a seriously impressive tune, a paean to purer pre-industrial times, a pro-Earth ecological odyssey that just oozes class. In exceedingly nice embossed sleeve on Southern Lord* 2 brand new songs (1 per side) that further solidify their death like grip on the jewel throne of American Black Metal.
* 100 only for UK, black vinyl, gold embossed sleeve.
* As with their mind blowing debut: Diadem of 12 Stars, Jamie Meyers (Hammers of Misfortune) lends her beautiful voice to the track on Side A "A Looming Resonance".
* Malevolent Grain features their new guitar player Will Lindsay (formerly of Middian) who had been the band’s touring bass player.
* The three members of Wolves in the Throne Room have recently finished recording their 3rd studio album entitled Black Cascade which will be released by Southern Lord on 23rd March.
* Produced and mixed by Randall Dunn ( Earth, sunn 0))), Boris, Secret Chiefs) Contains exlusive tracks which have will not be released anywhere else.
*Tracklisting: Side A: 01. A Looming Resonance Side B: 01. Hate Crystal
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