4.5/5
If there is any US black metal band you can always count on to deliver groundbreaking, quality extreme music the last few years, Washington's Wolves in the Throne Room is certainly at the top of the list. The band's two previous releases, Diadem of Twelve Stars and Two Hunters, are adventurous examples of what happens when you...read full review
9/10
What polarizes many in the metal community about Wolves in the Throne Room isn’t necessarily their music but the band’s message. Traditionally a stubbornly apolitical musical form, black metal’s preoccupation with nihilist, misanthropic, pagan, anti-Christian and Satanic themes made it abundantly clear activism was...read full review
4/5
To this point in their remarkable career, Olympia, Washington's Wolves in the Throne Room has proven they're not your typical black metal band. Their previous effort Two Hunters was a veritable masterwork of charred reinvention that succeeded in such stridence it was their devotion to granular earthbound textures which made the album...read full review
Taking black metal by storm, or maybe pushing black metal out of the basements and into the conscious of many whom have ignored the genre thus far, Wolves in the Throne Room give the listening world their third full-length album, Black Cascade, as further evidence of their genre label being too constrictive. Wolves in the Throne Room seem...read full review
[9/10]
Their stance as nature-worshipping, old-fashioned heathens (the kind, civilized ones) now fully exposed and understood, WITTR proves they are of equal substance and read full review