*During the Summer of 2002 at an Earth First rendezvous in the Cascade mountains of Washington State, guitarist Nathan Weaver was inspired to create a band that merged a Cascadian eco-spiritual awareness with the misanthropic Norwegian eruptions of the 90's. Themes of ancientness, apocalypse, connection to place and the struggle to find meaning and spirituality in a mechanical and materialistic world would be woven together in a singular alchemy.

*In the spring of 2004, Nathan and his brother, drummer Aaron Weaver, moved to a dilapidated farmstead on the outskirts of Olympia, WA. The creation of their farm-stronghold, called Calliope, would be intrinsically linked to the development of Wolves in the Throne Room. It was during the first long, dark winter living in the collapsed farmhouse at Calliope that the band developed their trance-inducing sound and solidified the burning intent that would animate the band's music.

*Since that time Wolves in the Throne Room have become one of the most important and highly regarded bands in extreme music. Over the course of 3 studio albums and hundreds of live performances the band has slowly boiled away the prima materia of Black Metal to distill a unique essence.

*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. The band’s trademark long-form approach to arrangement remains intact, but there is a stronger thread of Popul Vuh-inspired underworld synthscapes and star-lit pulse woven with the intertwining guitar figures.

*Although it is obviously inspired by European Black Metal, Wolves in the Throne Room create music that is intensely local in its orientation. Certainly, Celestial Lineage is a manifestation of the northwestern landscape.......
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Najnowszy album Wolves In The Throne Room ‘Celestial Lineage’ jest ostatnia częścią trylogii albumów, którą rozpoczęli wraz z albumem ‘Two Hunters’. Wizja muzyczna WITTR jest głęboko insirowana klimatem i krajobrazme północno-zahcodnich rejonów USA, których dzikie rejony zespół wybrał sobie na bazę (od kilku lat mieszkajaąc w odosobnonej farmie w lasach wokół Olympii, WA). Album został zarejestrowan w przeciągu pierwszych 6 miesięcy 2011 roku w Aleph Studio prowadzonym przez Randalla Dunna, producenta/mistyka, znanego ze wcześniejszej współpracy z takimi postaciami jak: Earth, Boris, SUNN 0))), Cave Singers, Bjork/Omar Souleyman. Na trzech utworach gościnnie zaśpiewała Jessika Kenney: solo i wspólnie z chórem. Wystąpił na niej również Aaron Turner (ISIS).

Za wizualna strone wydawnictwa odpowiedzialna jest forograf Ali Scarpulla, która stworzyła obrazy przeplatającyh sie przestrzeni sfotografowane w górskich okoilcach Olympii, WA. Scarpula znana jest z kultywowania technik analogowych przy tworzeniu swych fotografii.