Album Review: Wolves in the Throne Room – Black Cascade

By Tim Nordberg on April 9th, 2009

Pacific Northwest radical environmentalist subsistence farming. Throat-shredding, tooth-chattering black metal. To most, these might seem two irreconcilable lifestyles. No so for Olympia, Washington’s Wolves in the Throne Room. Self-describedly unifying “a Cascadian eco-spiritual awareness with the misanthropic Norwegian eruptions of the 90′s” [wittr.com], WITTR furthers its uncomprimising vision with this year’s Black Cascade. Ostensibly named in honor [...]