Wolves in the Throne Room is a black metal band from the woods around Olympia, Wash. The band's current tour in support of Black Cascade is its most extensive yet, and it's getting rave reviews. (See here and here.) WITTR's Deep Earth eco-spirituality is just a step or two removed from the pre-Christian paganism that informed the first wave of Norwegian black metal in the early 1990s, and the band shares an anti-humanist perspective with those classic Scandanavian bands, but their politics seem to generally head in an entirely different direction. WITTR is playing the Hideaway in Johnson City--which has quietly turned into East Tennessee's best venue for underground metal--on Saturday, May 30, with Krallice and A Storm of Light. photo by Afton Larsen
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