Watain

Who listens to these guys?

Black Metal from Sweden:
Last.fm:
http://www.last.fm/music/Watain

Metal-Archives:
http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=5173

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watain

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Thank you

Heat

http://www.myspace.com/watainofficial

Watain is killer. I really got into them with "Sworn to the Dark" but "Casus Luciferi" is excellent as well. I probably listen to CL more anyway. I've had their debut for sometime now but really haven't gotten into it yet.

I'm playing the 2008 remaster of Casus Luciferi now, brilliant band.

Slaytanic wrote:

I'm playing the 2008 remaster of Casus Luciferi now, brilliant band.

I think remastering Casus Luciferi was a great idea, though I am usually no fan of remastered editions.
It sounds so powerful now and I especially enjoy "Devil´s Blood"playing loud ...

Yeah the original version sounded like utter shit, I like that description "powerful" because that is exactly how it sounds.

Watain is a Swedish black metal pride and their gigs are really good I recommend to all who want access to modern black metal.

Swedish BM gives the Norwegians a good run for their money.

All their albums are ace, especially sworn to the dark.

ThornsofCrimsonDeath wrote:

All their albums are ace, especially sworn to the dark.

Yeah thats how I discovered Watain.

I really dig Watain´s music, all 3 CD´s are top stuff. Especially now with first 2 of them being remastered. But their interviews are most often "painfully" ridiculous.

So, I hope this is just some BM posing to "impress" new listeners and not things they really mean and practice, though I could imagine myself them practicing some weird stuff...

Hahahaha remember watching this inerview with Mayhem, they came across as just a buch of fucking fools.

Apart from Casus Luciferi what is the other album hat has been remastered?

Slaytanic wrote:

Apart from Casus Luciferi what is the other album hat has been remastered?

Rabid Death´s Curse was remastered too ... (incl. a bonus song "The Essence of Black Purity")

Fucking sweet, I am going to go and get that

Slaytanic wrote:

Fucking sweet, I am going to go and get that

Go ahead, it´s a safe investment and I love the remastered version A LOT more

Sigyn84 wrote:

Slaytanic wrote:

Fucking sweet, I am going to go and get that

Go ahead, it´s a safe investment and I love the remastered version A LOT more

I plan on it. I also prefer the remastered versions.

Sounds like i need to get the remastered version of Casus Luciferi then.

One of my favourite BM bands

Sweet!

They are from my hometown!

So, anyone else here like the "Go fuck your jewish "God"" demo? Such radical BM against everything! Great stuff, too bad they ended up making pop BM for hipsters or whoever likes their stuff.

Anybody check out the new album? What's the deal?

The new album is good, but just that sworn to the dark was amazing but lawless darkness is kind of weak, it has amazing music and the lirycs are good, but they have gone a little comercial with this one, anyway its a good choice if you´re looking for some "modern" black metal

Watain was one of these cases that I got completely overwhelmed by the sound.
The first thing that I heard was the Reaping Dead EP (Metal archives show it as single) I was immediately impressed: These guys actually put _structure_ in BM songs! and Heavy Metal riffs!!!

I must say that I like 'progressive' and 'unstructured' BM, like Wolfes in the Throne Room, but while this type of BM is music to relax, think and read a good book, Watain is a shot of raw energy that kicks your balls and puts you in killer mode.

Just listen to the Bathory cover "Return of Darkness and Evil" to know what I'm talking about: While Bathory's version is a blast of powerful chaos, Watain makes a real Heavy Metal song of it, with riffs, defined chorelines and _guitars_, and all that without loosing power or ceasing to be pure Black Metal.

As a final note: I have just started getting seriously into Black Metal and blackened DM, for most of my life I have been into thrash and doom metal. Watain and the fast paced "heavy" BM was therefore a whole surprise for me.

Haven't listened to them that much but they have impressed alot in spite of that. I'll definetly will listen to them more in the future

Shit, "Lawless Darkness" is the best fucking black metal album I've heard in years!