As black metal evolves into newer and weirder sonic and thematic
terrains, Sweden’s fearsome and amazing Watain continue to toil in the
same poisoned ground from which the music first grew. The band offers
swirling, suffocating, hook-driven black metal that draws from the very
best in the genre’s history — Dissection, Immortal, Morbid Angel — with
lyrics focusing on rituals, witches, devils, and demons. (Euronymous
would surely approve.) They’ve become sort of infamous for their stage
show — which involves animal carcasses and stinks to high heaven (er,
low hell?) — but that infamy has overshadowed their songwriting, which
uses classic elements to achieve astonishing results. Beneath the
corpsepaint, Watain are meticulous craftsmen; their structural
perfectionism seems almost uniquely Swedish. Their fifth LP, The Wild Hunt,
is their biggest and most ambitious, even including two songs with
clean singing (they sound a bit like late-period Bathory). First single
“All That May Bleed,” though, is searing, blood-raising Scandinavian
black metal. Of course it’s great.
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