Culture: Wolves In The Throne Room @ Villain Brooklyn

 

(Drivebycuriosity) - I am a connoisseur of heavy metal. I really enjoy atmospheric rock music with very heavy riffs. Fortunately my wife shares this taste. Yesterday we went to Villain, a multi-purpose hall in Brooklyn New York to watch a performance by Wolves In The Throne Room. This was the second gig by the American black metal band we have seen. We discovered them @ the Psycho Las Vegas festival in August, a 3-day event which focused on black, doom, psychedelic & stoner metal  (driveby).

The concert was beautiful and wild. The stage was kept in very low light, partly lit by candles and often blurred by synthetic wafts of mist.  The band (3 guitars plus keyboards & percussion) created intense & hypnotizing atmospheric passages which suddenly turned into fierce explosions.

Massive base riffs culminated into annihilating assaults shaking the hall. The tsunamis of the sound got intensified by the roars of the two vocalists. It looked like that the "Wolves" attacked the civilization and ripped it apart.

The stage, the "Throne Room", looked like the heart of a medieval castle and intensified the experience. Thus the show made the impression of a Wagner opera projected into a sinister alternate world. It seemed that the audience was under their spell as I was. There was no moshing and stage diving, contrary the observers seemed to meditate to the seismic waves of the concert.

Thank you so much "Wolves" for this experience. Some day we might see you again!