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WATAIN: Reveal “The Wild Hunt” Album Cover Artwork And Tracklist

Posted by Mohsen Fayyazi on June 12, 2013
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Swedish metallers WATAIN, reveal the album cover artwork and tracklist of their fifth studio album. Executed in oil and mixed materials, the cover of “The Wild Hunt” was done by Zbigniew M Bielak, the very same artist who was responsible for the “Lawless Darkness” artwork. The piece depicts one of the inmost shrines of WATAIN’s temple. As on every classic still life, each object has a significant meaning, while each song of the album is also connected to an object.

WATAIN - “The Wild Hunt”

“The Wild Hunt” track listing:

1. Night Vision

2. De Profundis

3. Black Flames March

4. All That May Bleed

5. The Child Must Die

6. They Rode On

7. Sleepless Evil

8. The Wild Hunt

9. Outlaw

10. Ignem Veni Mittere

11. Holocaust Dawn

“The Wild Hunt” will be released August 19th in Europe and August 20th, 2013 in North America by His Master’s Noise, via Century Media Records.

WATAIN online:
www.templeofwatain.com

WATAIN: Announce Video Trailer For “ALL THAT MAY BLEED” Single

Posted by Mohsen Fayyazi on June 3, 2013
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Watain_cdMetallers WATAIN have recently launched a new video clip for “All That May Bleed” single from their upcoming album “The Wild Hunt”.  The album will be released August 19th in Europe and August 20th, 2013 in North America by His Master’s Noise, via Century Media Records.

 

“All that May Bleed shows but one facet of a quite diverse album, but we chose this song as a first glimpse into “The Wild Hunt” because of its bombastic lunacy and white-eyed malevolence which could be said to constitute a main foundation for the album. The lyric is an invitation to sacrificial blood letting, ecstatic zealotry and human sacrifice. The salt of Satan in the wounds of Christ!” the band commented.

You can watch the video below:

Also the band  announced that on the 24th of August, WATAIN will conduct the grand opening of “The Wild Hunt” world tour in their hometown Uppsala. For those who want to see WATAIN‘s infamous live ceremony taken to a new level; this is your chance.

“The plan is to make this concert everything we have ever wanted our concerts to be. In a touring scenario it is impossible to drag along all the horrors and infernal machinery we need for that, but performing in our hometown allows for a much more grandiose and spectacular stage show and performance. Mark our words, this will be one to remember!”

The venue chosen for this night of unchained metal magic is Svandammshallarna, located in the heart of the city. Tickets will be released on Friday the 7th of June.

 

WATAIN online:
www.templeofwatain.com

 

WATAIN: To Release ‘All That May Bleed’ Single

Posted by aliblackdiamond on May 14, 2013
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Source: Blabbermouth.net

“All That May Bleed”, the new single from Swedish black metallers WATAIN, will be released at the end of June. The song comes off the band’s new album, “The Wild Hunt”, which is due on August 19 in Europe and August 20 in USA via Century Media Records. The CD was once again mixed at the Necromorbus Studio in Alvik, Sweden by Tore Stjerna.

Comments WATAIN: “‘All That May Bleed’ shows but one facet of a quite diverse album, but we chose this song as a first glimpse into ‘The Wild Hunt’ because of its bombastic lunacy and white-eyed malevolence which could be said to constitute a main foundation for the album. The lyric is an invitation to sacrificial blood letting, ecstatic zealotry and human sacrifice. The salt of Satan in the wounds of Christ!”

Side B will be a track called “Play With The Devil”, originally recorded by the black/heavy metal band TAIWAZ in 1988 in WATAIN‘s hometown, Uppsala (Gottfrid Åhman from IN SOLITUDE participates on solo guitar on WATAIN‘s version).

The single will be released in the following formats:

* Black seven-inch vinyl (limited to 2,000 copies worldwide)
* Red seven-inch vinyl with sticker (only available from Wolfwear.net; limited to 500 copies worldwide)
* Seven-inch picture disc (available from CMdistro.com and Wolfwear.net; limited to 500 copies worldwide)
* Digital download

“All That May Bleed” physical release dates:

* Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Norway and worldwide through CMdistro.com and Wolfwear.net: Friday, June 21
* UK, Benelux, France, Poland: Monday, June 24
* USA, Spain: Tuesday, June 25
* Sweden: Wednesday, June 26

“All That May Bleed” digital release dates:

* Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Norway, Italy, Australia, New Zealand: Friday, June 21
* UK: Sunday, June 23
* USA, Spain: Tuesday, June 25
* Sweden, Hungary: Wednesday, June 26
* Rest Of Europe: Monday, June 24

WATAIN: Announce New Album Title, Release Date

Posted by aliblackdiamond on April 30, 2013
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Century Media Records have released the news that  WATAIN  have announced the title and release date of their upcoming album: “After 120 nights of iron will and ardent magic, the fifth fullength album of Watain is now complete. With broken bones and burning hearts we have ploughed our way through deepest winter into a new wilderness, to which we will open the gates at summers end. THE WILD HUNT will be released on August 19th in Europe and August 20th in USA. Beware the rising star of dawn…“

The album was mixed again at the Necromorbus Studio in Alvik, Sweden by Tore Stjerna. No further comments. More details will be unveiled soon.

Formed back in 1998, the first two albums “Rabid Death’s Curse” (2000) and “Casus Luciferi” (2003) established the band firmly within the underground scene whereas “Sworn To The Dark” (2007) and especially “Lawless Darkness” (2010) helped them conquer a wider audience making them one of the most talked about acts in recent years. Musically rooted in classic black metal inspired by the likes of VENOM, HELLHAMMER, BATHORY, MAYHEM, DISSECTION, as well as the grandeur of old IRON MAIDEN, METALLICA, and RAINBOW, it is the larger-than-life aesthetics and total dedication to their art that elevates WATAIN beyond almost any other extreme metal band out there. WATAIN is satanic metal at its most frightening and fascinating.

After celebrating their 13th anniversary with the release of the DVD/double live album “Opus Diaboli” (2012) under the band’s own imprint His Master’s Noise, followed by an US tour with BEHEMOTH, THE DEVIL’S BLOOD and IN SOLITUDE earlier this year plus celebrated shows at Wacken and Bloodstock Open Air, 2013 will see the release of WATAIN‘s much anticipated fifth studio album “The Wild Hunt” via His Master’s Noise in collaboration with Century Media Records.

WATAIN online:

http://www.templeofwatain.com

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WATAIN Enter Studio

Posted by aliblackdiamond on January 17, 2013
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Century Media Records have announced the following:

His Masters Noise and Century Media are proud to announce the beginning of a new chapter of the WATAIN epos! The band comments: “Since the harvest, we have been occupied with preparations for a long and hard journey. Seeds have been sown, blades have been sharpened and new fires have been lit to illuminate the untrodden tunnels that lay before us as we descend further down the maze…”
And so it was that on the 3rd of January, 3 years on the day since the recording of “Lawless Darkness” did commence, WATAIN returned to Necromorbus Studio and begun working on what is to become the 5th full-length album. The tentative time of release is now set for August 2013. More details will be unveiled soon.

WATAIN online:

http://www.templeofwatain.com

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SPARROWS Planning WATAIN Tribute Album

Posted by tarjavirmakari on January 1, 2013
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Clawhammer has issued that the Dallas-based Deathened Black Metal act SPARROWS are currently planning a covers album paying tribute to Swedish Black Metal legends WATAIN. The band has issued an open invitation for acts interested in taking part in the project. Details are lined out in the following statement from SPARROWS:

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“We are starting the project of recording a WATAIN Tribute Album. If you are a band, and want to do a cover on the album, we will pay for the time for you to record it, AND give you a copy to use for yourselves. Please share this. Any band that can come to the Dallas, Texas area to record is welcome. If you are from out of state and you can afford a trip to Dallas to record, the same applies to you. The song SPARROWS are putting on the album is ‘Reaping Death,’ so have that in mind.”

Interested parties should message the band at www.facebook.com/thisissparrows

SPARROWS recently released Mark of the Beast: Indoctrination digitally through bandcamp where it may be streamed in full and/or purchased for the measly sum of $6.66 at sparrowsmetal.bandcamp.com.

The EP is the first of a three-part series; the connection between the series will be divulged after all three have been released. At a fundamental level, the sound of SPARROWS is rooted in its collective influences, including WATAIN, BEHEMOTH, ENSLAVED, DEICIDE, and GOATWHORE, yet the Dallas Destroyers bring to the table an identity all their own. Recorded in the Sparrows Lair in Dallas’ Industrial District by drummer Bryan Nicholas (who also mixed and mastered it), Mark of the Beast: Indoctrination delivers the goods with unmitigated malevolence. The scary part is that it is only the first of three brazen black metal assaults.

A series of videos documenting the recording of the EP can be viewed at this location.

True Norwegian Black Metal Merchandise Designed By WATAIN’s Erik Danielson Available Featuring Members of SATYRICON And 1349; Acclaimed Hardcover Book Released Via Forgotten Saints LA

Posted by tarjavirmakari on December 3, 2012
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Source: Bravewords.com

New official merchandise based on the groundbreaking book, True Norwegian Black Metal, by Peter Beste along with the 208-page hardcover book, will be available online at Forgotten Saints LA.

The first items released will consist of shirts designed for Peter by Erik Danielson of WATAIN. The shirts will feature exclusive images of Frost from SATYRICON and Ravn from the band 1349. Items will begin shipping on December 14th.

American documentary photographer Peter Beste spent eight years working in the milieu of this insulated and secretive community. Beste’s exclusive access and insight has resulted in an amazing photographic journey throughout the world of black metal.

In addition to their venture into the blak metal world, Forgotten Saints has also recently teamed up with Hollywood’s HOTEL DIABLO for an exclusive line of Psycho California custom merchandise.

Forgotten Saints has designed for artists including MARILYN MANSON, ROB ZOMBIE, IRON MAIDEN, DEE SNIDER, DIMMU BORGIR, NIKKI SIXX , MÖTLEY CRÜE, GUNS N’ ROSES, DJ ASHBA, BLACK VEIL BRIDES and BUCKCHERRY. All of their items are 100% hand crafted and made in the US. The online store ships worldwide from their world renowned Melrose Avenue boutique in located in Hollywood, California.

For more info, head to this location.

WATAIN Signs Worldwide Deal With Century Media Records

Posted by tarjavirmakari on November 16, 2012
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Century Media Records is proud to welcome Swedish black metal extremists WATAIN to its worldwide family. Legitimately labeled as genre leaders, deservedly awarded with a Swedish Grammy, playing the world’s biggest stages and touring the globe constantly while reaching numerous top positions in the annual reader’s polls, WATAIN have worked hard and achieved a lot over the past years despite successfully ignoring any kind of conformity and concession to the metal mainstream. Unrivalled in their unwillingness to compromise and clear artistic vision, WATAIN are most befittingly described with the title of Bathory’s third opus – “Blood Fire Death”, a fact they never fail to underline with their infamous live shows: The stench of rotting animal cadavers, the inferno of candelabras and torches, chalices of blood, darkness and death – WATAIN are a full scale attack on all sensory organs. In days of toothless, sterile, family-friendly metal they embody danger and dread and are rewarded with a maximum of support and appreciation.

WATAIN comments:
“We are writing this from a magical place of desolation and desert-like vastness, where wondrous things are at this very moment taking place. Things that will come to colour our world as well as yours in the strangest hues for many years to come. We are entering this new chapter of Watain with a will and confidence to make it the most diverse and rememberable so far. And with the things that we have in mind for the future, it looks like it will be just so. Just wait and see, f***ers! Loud and terrible shall the trumpets of Devils sound…”

“Century Media is massively excited to work with Watain. This band has it all: charisma, the firm will to conquer the world, and an authenticity you rarely find these days. Mixed with their creativity and musical impact – this band will make it to the top. They are a healthy slap in the face for any Metal Bourgeois. We are ready to kill for them!” says Antje Lange, General Manager Century Media Europe.

“I am very proud and excited to welcome Watain to the Century Media family. There are few bands that remind me of when I first discovered metal as a teenager that could give me the same feeling of extreme release and evil such as Slayer, Venom and Mercyful Fate did. Watain is one of those rare bands and I look forward to being a part of their growing career and helping today’s future metalhead find their way!” adds Don Robertson, President Century Media USA.

Formed back in 1998, the first two albums “Rabid Death’s Curse” (2000) and “Casus Luciferi” (2003) established the band firmly within the underground scene whereas “Sworn To The Dark” (2007) and especially “Lawless Darkness” (2010) helped them conquer a wider audience making them one of the most talked about acts in recent years. Musically rooted in classic black metal inspired by the likes of Venom, Hellhammer, Bathory, Mayhem, Dissection as well as the grandeur of old Iron Maiden, Metallica, Rainbow it is the larger-than-life aesthetics and total dedication to their art that elevates WATAIN beyond almost any other extreme metal band out there. WATAIN is satanic metal at its most frightening and fascinating.

After celebrating their 13th anniversary with the release of the DVD/double live album “Opus Diaboli” (2012) under the band’s own imprint His Master’s Noise, followed by an US tour with Behemoth, The Devil’s Blood and In Solitude earlier this year plus celebrated shows at Wacken and Bloodstock Open Air, 2013 will see the release of WATAIN’s much anticipated fifth studio album via His Master’s Noise in collaboration with Century Media Records. Beware!

WATAIN online: www.templeofwatain.com

WATAIN: Limited Edition LP Box Set On The Way; Pre-Order Available

Posted by tarjavirmakari on October 17, 2012
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Source: Bravewords.com

Season Of Mist is re-releasing WATAIN‘s complete full-length back catalog on vinyl in a strictly limited collector’s box.

This collector’s box is made of solid beech wood with real leather, containing a Watain logo imprint on the lid. The box includes all four albums (Rabid Death’s Curse, Casus Luciferi, Sworn To The Dark, and Lawless Darkness) in deluxe, gate-fold, double-LP editions with download cards.

Each album has been painstakingly remastered to keep the original spirit of intent, and comes in a different vinyl color exclusive to this box set: Rabid Death’s Curse – solid grey with black and white splatters, Casus Luciferi – solid grey, Sworn To The Dark – transparent red, Lawless Darkness – transparent clear. The box set includes 4 hand-crafted silkscreen prints that assemble together as a poster. This exclusive box is limited to 1,000 units worldwide and available for pre-order now.

Additionally, the remastered albums will be released separately in limited black vinyl editions.

More on Watain at this location.

WATAIN Frontman Interviewed At U.K.’s BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR (Video)

Posted by aliblackdiamond on August 11, 2012
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TeePee of Total Rock Radio conducted an interview with Erik Danielsson, vocalist/guitarist player of Swedish black metallers WATAIN, at this year’s edition of the Bloodstock Open Air festival, which is being held August 9-12 at Catton Park, Derbyshire in the United Kingdom. You can now watch the chat below.

WATAIN released a new DVD, “Opus Diaboli”, in North America on June 5. The production commemorates the band’s 13 years of chaos by providing a visual and audio documentation of their ceremonial anniversary concert performance in Stockholm and the long years of physical, intellectual and spiritual work leading up to it. “Opus Diaboli” is an epic 90-minute journey into the forbidden realms of wild-hearted Satanic metal and the manifestation of a unique band that has truly chosen a path few have ever dared to tread upon.

Comments the band in a collective statement: “This movie was first meant to be the recording of our 13-year anniversary concert, but as everything with WATAIN, it took on a life of its own and become one of our most ambitious projects to date. It is a very personal and emotional piece of work and is certainly not for the faint of heart. But for those who wish to explore the glimmering abyss of WATAIN further, this will be a rewarding release for sure. The box version of ‘Opus Diaboli’ [available exclusively through the band's own Wolfwear.net] contains an exclusive photobook. It was an overwhelming experience going through the massive archives in search of photos that best sum up the storm of passionate turmoil that has marked the WATAIN journey, especially since we wanted to stay away from live photos and focus more on moments off stage. The results were, however, very satisfying and offer a rare and spicy mixture of photos of which most have never been published previously. We are also proud to announce that this will be the first release on our own label, His Master’s Noise, a name originating from BATHORY who had it in mind for their own label back in the early 1980s. Just like with our merch store Wolfwear.net, from which the limited box set will be available, this time we have chosen to stand by our own and do things our way.”

 

Source: Blabbermouth.net