WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM - Celestial Lineage (DIGIPAK CD)

The transmutation reaches a new level with the completion of Celestial Lineage the clans' new Astral Black Metal document. In contrast to the bleakly hypnotic architecture of 2008's Black Cascade, Celestial Lineage expands into a more expansive and visionary territory. Although it is obviously inspired by European Black Metal, Wolves in the Throne Room create music that is intensely local in it's orientation. Certainly, Celestial Lineage is a manifestation of the northwestern landscape, but it also arises out of an underground West Coast tradition formed by successive generations of psychic crusaders: Theosophists, beatniks, the Grateful Dead, Neurosis, the back-to-the-land movement, satanic hippies, tree-spiking anarchist punks. The resulting music invokes a misty dream world. Rain drenched specters looming at the edge of the wood. Echoes from the Astral Plane. Ancient cedar deities robed in moss. A glimpse of a bronze-domed temple among the firs. Celestial Lineage was written and recorded over the course of 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.