WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM ANNOUNCE RELEASE DATE OF CELESTITE,
TO BE RELEASED ON THEIR NEW LABEL IMPRINT IN JULY
US TOUR DATES
7/11 Olympia, WA – Capital Theatre Backstage
7/12 Bellingham, WA – Shakedown
7/13 Vancouver, BC – The Venue
7/14 Seattle, WA – Crocodile
7/15 Portland, OR – Star Theatre
7/16 – OFF
7/17 San Francisco, CA – Slim’s
7/18 Santa Cruz, CA – Catalyst Atrium
7/19 San Diego, CA – Che Café
7/20 Los Angeles, CA – Echoplex
Excitement has been stirring since Wolves In The Throne Room announced the unexpected release of Celestite, an instrumental, experimental companion record to 2011’s Celestial Lineage.
Celestite sees the band take a deeper excursion into the crystalline synthesizer-driven domains that have long intrigued them. With the aid of producer Randall Dunn, the band unearthed a hidden soundscape that is only loosely tethered to their familiar sound, yet is still unmistakably the work of Wolves in the Throne Room.
We are pleased to confirm the release date for Celestite as 7th July in the UK/Europe. The release of Celestite will be the first on the band’s new label, Artemisia Records, which will be their outlet for future recordings.
Tracklisting:
1. Turning Ever Towards The Sun
2. Initiation at Neudeg Alm
3. Bridge of Leaves
4. Celestite Mirror
5. Sleeping Golden Storm
Since 2002, over the course of 4 studio albums and hundreds of live performances Wolves in the Throne Room have refracted the transcendent and mythic aspects of Black Metal through their own idiosyncratic Cascadian prism. The resulting essence is music that is intimately linked to the wild lands of the Pacific Northwest.
Their songs explore the hidden world of magic that one accesses through dreams, visions and music. As the mind altering pulse of the drums merges with seemingly infinite layers of guitar, an ocean-deep psychedelic soundscape coalesces. Time slows down, a portal opens and the blazing metal riffs collapse and shift into a dirge that invokes a misty other-world. In their songs, rain-drenched spectres loom at the edge of the wood. Ancient cedar beings stir beneath their wet moss robes.
In the Autumn of 2011, their work reached a new level of refinement with the release of Celestial Lineage. In contrast to the bleakly hypnotic architecture of 2008’s Black Cascade, or the more orthodox forms of Two Hunters and Diadem of 12 Stars (2006), Celestial Lineage moved into a more expansive and visionary territory.
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