Watain

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Watain
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Watain at a concert in Springfield, Virginia, 2007
Watain at a concert in Springfield, Virginia , 2007
General information
origin Uppsala , Sweden
Genre (s) Black metal
founding 1998
Website http://www.templeofwatain.com/
Founding members
E (Erik Danielsson)
C. Blom (until 2000)
guitar
 P (Pelle Forsberg)
H (Håkan Jonsson)
Current occupation
Vocals, bass
 E (Erik Danielsson)
guitar
 P (Pelle Forsberg)
Drums
 H (Håkan Jonsson)
Live guitar, previously also live bass
 Set (Davide "Set Teitan" Totaro)
Live bass
 A (Alvaro Lillo)
Former Live Members
bass
 Necromorbus (2000-2002)
bass
 Mörk (2001-2006)

Watain is a black metal - band from Uppsala , Sweden .

biography

Watain was founded in the summer of 1998 and named after a song by the American black metal band VON . After the first demo Go Fuck Your Jewish God and the live cassette Black Metal Sacrifice , the 7 "EP The Essence of Black Purity was released in April 1999 on the Swedish label Grim Rune Productions; Watain regards it as the first official release. 2000 The debut album Rabid Death's Curse was recorded and released, and the guitarist C. Blom was released from the band, the core of which has since consisted of the other three founding members. 2001 the live cassette The Ritual Macabre and the split single The Misanthropic Ceremonies followed by the Swedish band Diabolicum .

In early 2002 Watain went on a first European tour, The Black War Tour with Unpure . In 2003 Watain recorded Casus Luciferi . The album was released during the Stellar Dimension Infernal tour through Europe with Secrets of the Moon and Averse Sefira .

In 2004 Watain went on a two-month tour with Dissection through eighteen countries.

Watain's next album, Sworn to the Dark , was released in Europe on February 21, 2007. The band then went on a European tour with Celtic Frost , Kreator and Legion of the Damned . In 2008 she played her first tour in North America.

For June 7th 2010 the band announced their fourth album Lawless Darkness with the words "On June 7th 2010, Black Metal shall be reborn"; according to Danielsson it should be a return to the roots of Black Metal with a simultaneous necessary spiritual renewal. On the album, the band's friend Selim Lemouchi from The Devil's Blood contributed two guitar solos, and Carl McCoy from Fields of the Nephilim sang on Waters of Ain . The album reached number 26 on the Swedish album charts in June 2010 . On May 4, 2012 Watain released their first DVD Opus Diaboli , which is available in combination with CDs and LPs.

In spring 2013 the band announced their fifth album The Wild Hunt with the words: "With broken bones and burning hearts we have plowed our way through deepest winter into a new wilderness, to which we will open the gates at summers end", in short followed by the EP All That May Bleed . The EP was released for the summer solstice on June 21, 2013 and the album on August 19, 2013 in Europe and on August 20, 2013 in the USA. A tour of the album will follow on August 24.

Music style and ideology

Singer Erik Danielsson performing at the Under the Black Sun Festival , 2007
Erik at Party.San 2014

Watain plays typical Swedish black metal style and is in atmospheric terms with the album De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas by Mayhem and because of the melodies with Dissection compared. The chaos-gnostic band Ofermod , which is just as much an influence as Dissection and belongs to Watain's environment. Danielsson names old Mayhem and Burzum , Thorns , Sabbat , Mercyful Fate , Death SS , Samael and Necrovore as influences and sees many similarities with Dissection. According to Danielsson, the 2010 album Lawless Darkness is musically based more on Watain himself than on other bands.

The musicians see themselves as "part of a larger plan" and "controlled by higher powers". Their form of Satanism is expressly called devil worship by Danielsson to distinguish it from other currents ; despite their later expressed support for the chaos-Gnostic Temple of the Black Light , Danielssons help during Dissection and after the death of Dissection-founder Jon Nödtveidt dedicated to the ex-Dissection guitarist Set Teitan written, Nödtveidt and style similar to the views of MLO song Legions of the Black Light , the band kept devil worship as their focus.

The band's performances are known for the use of pig heads, fire effects and animal carcasses, as well as the extreme stench that emanates from the stage; the band itself describes parts of their performances as disturbing for numerous viewers, but enlightening and pleasing to those in whose hearts the black fire burns.

After performing at the Party.San -Metal-Open-Air in 2006, band members were seen giving the Hitler salute and wearing T-shirts of the NSBM band Absurd , which led to allegations that the band was promoting National Socialist ideas. The band then called their critics on their website as "pathetic subhumans " and Black / Death Metal as "forever not political". When Erik Danielsson was asked about the incident and his opinion on the NSBM in an interview with the German online magazine Metal.de , he said:

“People get scared when they see a black wolf invade the herd of white sheep. They automatically put a Nazi stamp on you because that seems like the only way they can deal with things they don't (want to) understand. We laughed about it and now hopefully they know better. […] NSBM is a joke, a desperate attempt by people who are unable to fathom the perversion and madness of Black Metal. They want to appear extreme and limit their conception to this type of society, which is something that could not interest us any less. Fuck the world! Black Metal has nothing to do with the world as you know it. "

- Erik Danielsson : Interview with Watain at metal.de

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Lawless Darkness
  SE 26th 06/11/2010 (4 weeks)
The Wild Hunt
  DE 18th 08/30/2013 (2 weeks)
  CH 73 09/01/2013 (1 week)
  US 158 07.09.2013 (1 week)
  SE 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 08/23/2013 (3 weeks)
Trident Wolf Eclipse
  DE 6th 01/12/2018 (2 weeks)
  AT 24 01/19/2018 (1 week)
  CH 38 01/14/2018 (1 week)
  SE 3 01/12/2018 (1 week)

Demos

  • 1998: Go Fuck Your Jewish God ( MC ; self-distribution)
  • 2002: Puzzles ov Flesh (CDR; self-distribution)

Studio albums

  • 2000: Rabid Death's Curse (CD / LP / 2xLP / MC; Drakkar Productions, End All Life Productions ) Released worldwide in a total of 26 versions until 2019.
  • 2003: Casus Luciferi (CD / LP / 2xLP / MC / FLAC; Drakkar Productions) Released worldwide in 19 versions until 2016, LP distribution by Norma Evangelium Diaboli.
  • 2006: Sworn to the Dark (CD / 2xLP / MC / MP3; Season of Mist ) Published worldwide in a total of 24 versions by 2015, LP distribution by Norma Evangelium Diaboli.
  • 2010: Lawless Darkness (CD / 2xLP / MC / FLAC; Season of Mist) Released worldwide in 19 versions until 2016, LP distribution also by Norma Evangelium Diaboli.
  • 2013: The Wild Hunt (CD / CD + 2xLP + 7 " / 2xLP / 2xLP + 7" / MC; His Master's Noise / Century Media ) Released worldwide in a total of 17 versions until 2016.
  • 2018: Trident Wolf Eclipse

Concert albums

  • 1999: Black Metal Sacrifice (MC; self-distribution)
  • 2001: The Ritual Macabre (MC; Sacriligeous Warfare Productions)
  • 2012: Opus Diaboli (2xCD + DVD / 2xCD + 2xLP + DVD-V; His Master's Noise)
  • 2014: Temple of Watain (Live Darkness and Death) (CD; Slayer Storm Productions)
  • 2015: Stellar Descension Infernal in Budapest (MC; Stygian Shadows Productions)

EPs & Singles

  • 1999: The Essence of Black Purity (7 "; Grim Rune Productions)
  • 2010: Reaping Death (CD / 7 "; Season of Mist)
  • 2013: Outlaw (CD; Century Media)
  • 2013: All That May Bleed (7 "; His Master's Noise / Century Media)
  • 2013: Fuck Off, We Murder (7 " Flexi ; Decibel Flexi Series)
  • 2017: Nuclear Alchemy (7 "; self-distribution)

Splits

  • 2001: Diabolicum / Watain - The Misanthropic Ceremonies (7 "; Spikekult Records)
  • 2016: Mayhem / Watain - Sathanas / Luciferi (7 "; His Master's Noise)

Exclusive contributions to compilations

  • 2002: My Fists Are Him (Live in Darkness) on Jesus Wept / Black Arts comp # 1 (MC; Black Arts Productions)

Other publications

  • 2000: The Essence of Black Purity + Rehearsal 6/2/00 (MC; self-distribution)
  • 2003: Promotape 0III (MC; self-distribution)
  • 2015: Tonight We Raise Our Cups And Toast in Angels Blood - A Tribute To Bathory (LP / MC; Sound Pollution)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Malign - Divine Facing + Fireborn (LP). Repulsive Records, 2011, archived from the original on January 13, 2013 ; accessed on January 30, 2018 (Swedish / English).
  2. ↑ Niklas Göransson: Malign. Bardo Methodology, March 14, 2016, accessed January 30, 2018 (English, translation of an intrerview in Sweden Rock ).
  3. ↑ a b c Biography. Watain, archived from the original on February 4, 2002 ; accessed on January 1, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Arthur, Krasniy: Interview with WATAIN. Archived from the original on December 31, 2007 ; Retrieved April 20, 2010 (English).
  5. ↑ a b Mastema: Watain - The Dark Side. April 26, 2007, archived from the original on March 2, 2008 ; Retrieved April 20, 2010 (English).
  6. ↑ a b Mikael: WATAIN (interview 2004). September 7, 2005, accessed April 20, 2010 .
  7. ↑ a b From the cunt of Satan… Watain, archived from the original on February 21, 2007 ; accessed on January 1, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Johannes Paul Koehler: Watain . In: Legacy . No. 66, 05/06 , 2010, pp. 27 f .
  9. ↑ a b c Götz Kühnemund: For those about to destroy - we salute you! In: Rock Hard . No. 277 , June 2010, p. 46 .
  10. ^ Watain - Lawless , swedishcharts.com, accessed June 28, 2010.
  11. ^ Temple of Watain , accessed June 4, 2013.
  12. ↑ Chaossphere: Review: Watain - Casus Luciferi. October 9, 2004, accessed April 20, 2010 .
  13. ↑ Adrien Begrand: Watain: Sworn to the Dark .
  14. ^ Doomsdayzach: Watain - Erik Danielsson. Global Domination, July 24, 2007, archived from the original on October 18, 2007 ; accessed on January 30, 2018 (English).
  15. ^ Nathan T. Birk: Never Stop the Madness . In: Unrestrained . 2005, p. 21 (English, ofermod.org ( memento of October 24, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed April 20, 2010]). Never Stop the Madness ( Memento from October 24, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ a b Nathan T. Birk: OFERMOD. 2005, archived from the original on October 24, 2005 ; Retrieved April 20, 2010 (English).
  17. ↑ Ild: index. June 9, 2005, archived from the original on April 10, 2008 ; Retrieved April 20, 2010 (English).
  18. ↑ Mirgilus: Interviews. (No longer available online.) 2005, archived from the original on June 27, 2012 ; Retrieved April 20, 2010 (English).
  19. ↑ Ronald Ziegler: Merchandise whorery. In: Horrible Eyes. Archived from the original on January 21, 2003 ; Retrieved April 20, 2010 (English).
  20. ↑ a b Endres: Watain - Interview. March 17, 2007, accessed April 20, 2010 .
  21. ↑ Pete Woods: Interview with Watain. Archived from the original on December 6, 2007 ; Retrieved April 20, 2010 (English).
  22. ↑ Chris Harris: Watain: The Gun Shy Interview ( Memento November 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
  23. ^ Etan Rosenbloom: Watain work their Black Metal Magic on North American tour .
  24. ^ Henri Kramer: Concert report: Party.San Open Air. Accessed April 20, 2010 .
  25. ↑ fight fascism: “Under the Black Sun” festival with extreme right-wing music groups. May 13, 2007, accessed April 20, 2010 .
  26. ^ The trumpets of Armageddon. Watain, October 20, 2006; archived from the original on November 17, 2006 ; accessed on January 1, 2015 .
  27. ↑ swedishcharts.com - Swedish Charts Portal. Retrieved July 1, 2010 .

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