Watain Announces Title And Release Date For New Album

WATAIN has announced the title and release date of their upcoming album: "After 120 nights of iron will and ardent magic, the fifth full length 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 summer's 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, WATAIN's 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 last 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

Watain Enters Studio

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, WATAIN 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

Watain Signs Worldwide Deal With Century Media Records

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. Unrivaled 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:

http://www.templeofwatain.com

Show Review: Behemoth, Watain, Insolitude, The Devil's Blood

About a month ago (4/20/2012), The Decibel Magazine Tour stormed through Seattle's El Corazon. The tour package featured Polish black metal powerhouse Behemoth's triumphant return to a North American headlining position, and saw support from a fine crop of equally talented opening acts. The support bands were of a top notch caliber, and varied perfectly in scope and style from pentagram touting, torch burning Watain, to the 70's sounding Devils Blood.  The tour's openers really knew what they were doing.

The night kicked off with an unmemorable, local opener and less than impressive crowd, who seemed more interested in frequenting the packed bar than they did to see a local opener slog through sloppy dissonant metal. The Devil's Blood hit the stage to a more filled out crowd to much excitement and enthusiasm from the crowd. The band, which features a female lead vocalist, all sauntered onstage covered in fake blood and playing a slew of guitar riffs that seemed to be more at home within a bad 1978 acid trip than a heavy metal show. I must say however, that the band ended up winning me over with the vocalist's impressive range to a fifteen minute jam session in the middle of the set. This was a band that truly knew how to get a crowd warmed up and ready for a night of metal. If you have a couple of bucks I highly suggest picking up the band’s latest release "The Thousandfold Epicenter".

For full review and some amazing photos please CLICK HERE!

Watain: Swedish Black Metal Collective Unveil New DVD Trailer

Swedish black metal collective WATAIN today offer up the second in a series of trailers from their upcoming Opus Diaboli anniversary DVD. 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. In addition, Opus Diaboli marks the the first release on WATAIN’s 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. Opus Diaboli will be unleashed in North America on June 5, 2012.

Check out the latest two-plus minute trailer, hosted exclusively by Decibel Magazine, as well as some words from vocalist Erik Danielsson about the production, at THIS LOCATION.

WATAIN are currently spreading their Satanic rituals throughout the lands on the inaugural Decibel Magazine Tour alongside Behemoth, The Devil’s Blood and In Solitude. Additionally, the band will further decimate the masses with five more headlining dates which will include stops in Poughkeepsie, New York, Cleveland, Ohio, Joliet, Illinois, Columbus, Ohio and Detroit, Michigan. For these shows, the band will perform as a four piece, with Danielsson doing guitar and vocals.

WATAIN on the Decibel Magazine Tour 2012
w/ Behemoth, The Devil’s Blood, In Solitude [remaining dates]
5/07/2012 Club Infinity – Buffalo, NY[TICKETS] ** WATAIN Only
5/08/2012 Opera House – Toronto, ON [TICKETS]
5/09/2012 Club Soda – Montreal, QC [TICKETS]
5/10/2012 Imperial – Quebec City, QC [TICKETS]
5/11/2012 Palladium – Worcester, MA [TICKETS]
5/12/2012 Irving Plaza – New York, NY [TICKETS]

WATAIN Headlining Dates
5/14/2012 The Loft – Poughkeepsie, NY [TICKETS]
5/15/2012 Peabody’s – Cleveland, OH [TICKETS]
5/16/2012 Mojoe’s – Joliet, IL [TICKETS]
5/17/2012 Al Rosa Villa – Columbus, OH [TICKETS]
5/18/2012 Harpo’s –Detroit, MI [TICKETS]

http://www.templeofwatain.com/opusdiaboli
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