Watain Announce Release Date Of New Album 'The Wild Hunt'
Tuesday, 07 May 2013
Written by Elliott Batte
Swedish black metal outfit Watain have announced that their latest studio album ‘The Wild Hunt’ will hit shelves on August 19th.
The band’s fifth record, it was mixed at the Necromorbus Studio in Alvik in Sweden once again, by Tore Stjerna. More details of the record are expected to be released soon - check out what the band have to say about the record:
“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 summers end. ‘The Wild Hunt’ will be released on August 19th in Europe and August 20th in USA. Beware the rising star of dawn...”
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, and inspired by the likes of Venom, Hellhammer, Bathory, Mayhem, and 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 Watrain's much anticipated fifth studio album 'The Wild Hunt', via His Master's Noise in collaboration with Century Media Records.
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