Kings of USBM Wolves in the Throne Room return with sharpened teeth on their forthcoming new album Estuary. The record carries the hallmark of their unyielding dedication to the physical craft and analog production techniques, and it’s the band’s most ferocious and genre-bending record to date.
Nathan Weaver (lead vocals, guitars) remarks: “Our new LP ‘Estuary’ is set 1000 years in the future after the end of civilization. Survivors of a cataclysm wander the haunted ruins. It is a world of mutant creatures and open portals. Post-apocalyptic religion takes form in a wild landscape.”
Resonant with that hardwiring, Estuary is rawer, more volatile with the storming sensuality of noisy industrial elements, evolving through the domain of warm rain, majestic forests and diffused starlight. Massive percussion and seething gothic guitars wipe the listener’s psyche clear of all stagnation, transforming them into active, evolutionary conduits. These elements are all on display on the album’s opening track and latest single “Estuary” which arrives today with a stunning, cinematic new music video.
Estuary explores the tension and networking between stillness and noise, animal and machine, elementals and electricity, and the awakening sophistication implicit in our mysterious origin. Weaver says: “If wilderness overcame the cities in the future, the estuaries would be realms of power and magic. Within the album’s world-building, the estuaries are key nexus points where magic has taken on physical form. Spirits good and evil walk the earth.”
Estuary was produced by Wolves in the Throne Room, with touring bassist Galen Baudhuin (Aridus, Street Tombs) dropping the low-end into a devastating sub-terrain. The bulk of the album was recorded at the band’s own Owl Lodge studio in Olympia, Washington, with drums tracked by Nicholas Wilbur at The Unknown (a converted former church in Anacortes, Washington).
Look for more news from Wolves in the Throne Room soon.
