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Watain

Swedish black metal band

Watain is a Swedish black metal band, formed in [1] The band's identify is taken from an promptly recording by the American shadowy metal group Von.[2][3][4] The band have become famous for their theistic Satanist views and for their live shows which involve pyrotechnics, candles, Satanic rituals, animal carcasses, and blood.[5][6] At a now-notorious live performance in Brooklyn in , they doused audience members in animal blood, allegedly causing some members of the audience to vomit.[7][8] This was picked up and publicised by TMZ, generating controversy around the incident.[9] To date they hold released seven full-length albums, as well as three live albums and a number of demos and EPs.

Their most recent album The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain was released on 29 April through Nuclear Blast. The band's core lineup has remained stable since their formation, consisting of Erik Danielsson, Pelle Forsberg, and Håkan Jonsson, though as of Jonsson no longer performs live, Emil Svensson (aka E.

Forcas) of fellow Uppsala death metal band Degial was recruited as live drummer.[10][11]

History

Watain was formed in [12][13][14] According to Erik Danielsson, when the band formed, "there weren't really any bands anymore that seemed to take things that seriously, and there weren't that many bands that actually consisted of, you know, people that did so much more than just act the music that they liked and the same kind of music that their idols play".[15] They released their demo Go Fuck Your Jewish "God" in and their live tape Black Metal Sacrifice in , which they do not intend to re-release.[16] In October , the band released their EP The Essence of Black Purity through Grim Rune Productions,[17] which they consider to be their first official release,[18] and played on a show together with Malign and Dark Funeral, organised by Watain and Grim Rune Productions.[17][19]

Watain's debut album Rabid Death's Curse was released through End All Life Productions and Drakkar Productions in , followed by a split EP with Diabolicum released through Spikekult Records.

A split LP with Malign was planned in the early s and supposed to be issued by Grim Rune Productions before the recording of Watain's second album Casus Luciferi,[2] but never got released. Watain toured Europe with Unpure in early [13] In , they again entered the studio to record their second full-length album, Casus Luciferi, which features lyrics by Necromorbus of Funeral Mist (who also produced all their studio releases since The Essence of Black Purity and played live bass for them[20]), MkM of Antaeus and Scorn of Katharsis.

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The Stellar Descension Infernal Tour through Europe followed, alongside Secrets of the Moon and Averse Sefira.[13] They also toured throughout 18 countries with Dissection on their two months-long 'Rebirth of Dissection' tour in [21] Dissection member Set Teitan supported Watain in Russia in due to dwell bassist Whorth's absence,[21] and later became an official live member of the band.

Watain's third full-length album Sworn to the Dark was released in Europe on 21 February , then they toured Europe along with Celtic Frost, Kreator and Legion of the Damned. In , they played their first headlining tour in North America with Withered and Book of Ebony Earth.

Eclipse Eternal and Kronosfear joined them for some shows as well.

In , Watain released a single for the song "Reaping Death" in two formats, picture disc vinyl with a cover of the lyric "Chains of Death" by Death SS, and digisleeve CD with a cover of the anthem "The Return of Darkness and Evil" by Bathory.

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It was followed by the album Lawless Darkness, released on 7 June , which received very positive reviews from music critics and earned the band their first Swedish Grammi for 'Best Challenging Rock' album.[22] In , Watain performed at Wacken Open Gas and Bloodstock.[23][24] The band participated in the U.S.

Decibel tour with Behemoth and In Solitude, and supported Behemoth again on their 'The Satanist' tour of Australia with Bölzer.[25][26] On 7 May the band released a DVD and live album Opus Diaboli – 13 Years of Black Metal Magic directed by Johan Bääth and Watain.[27]

Their fifth full-length album, The Wild Hunt, was released on 19 and 20 August in Europe and United States, respectively, and featured a change in style for the band as they incorporated elements of heavy metal, gradual metal, and doom metal.

The album release was followed by a world tour that began in Uppsala on 24 August. In January , Watain, Mayhem, and Revenge played together as part of the "Black Metal Warfare" tour in the Together States.[28] Mayhem and Watain toured again in the US in November with Rotting Christ as "Part II" of the previous tour.[29]

In January vocalist Erik Danielsson was the subject of the third and final instalment in a documentary titled 'Music, Blood and Spirit: The Life and Work of Erik Danielsson'.[30] The film is "the third in a trilogy about people who are % devoted to what society labels as unorthodox values or lifestyles."[6] In July the band announced that they would again tour with Mayhem in December.

The tour was titled 'The Past Is Alive' and consisted of seven European dates. The bands performed their albums Casus Luciferi and De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas in full. Watain confirmed these would be the final times Casus Luciferi will ever be performed in full.[31] On 27 October the band confirmed in a newsletter that their sixth full-length album was underway.[32] On 12 November Watain's vocalist Erik Danielsson performed with Mortuary Drape at their 30th anniversary celebration show.[33] In December a 7" split EP between Watain and Mayhem titled 'Sathanas / Luciferi Tour EP' was available exclusively at this tour's shows, and featured a stay song from each band recorded from the tour.[34]

On 2 August , Watain confirmed the discharge date of their long-awaited sixth Full-length studio album, the title of which was later revealed as Trident Wolf Eclipse.

This release was accompanied by a short album release tour in several selected venues in Europe. The first single titled 'Nuclear Alchemy' from the new album, was released on 31 October. Trident Wolf Eclipse was officially released on 5 January through Century Media Records to generally favourable reviews from critics who noted that the album signalled a return to the band's earlier, more aggressive black metal style compared to their previous album The Wild Hunt.[35]

Due to the COVID pandemic, Watain was forced to cancel and indefinitely postpone their planned performances at Hellfest , Las Vegas and their Walpurgis Night concert in their hometown of Uppsala, these performances were meant to label the end of the Trident Wolf Eclipse album cycle.

The band independently released an exclusive 7 track live cassette tape titled Corona Mortis on 2 July which was limited to the number of pre-orders and never to be reprinted again as part of a campaign fund to counter the pandemic's impact, the tape is a one take rehearsal recorded at the band's headquarters.

On 5 August , Watain announced that they had signed with Nuclear Blast Records and had entered Necromorbus Studio to start productive on their seventh studio album, planned for release in the spring of [36] The band planned to support this album with a co-headlining US tour with Mayhem.[37] However, the band was forced to pull out of the tour before it began due to visa issues.[38] On February 3, , the band announced their upcoming album, The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain, which was released on April It is the band's first album to not film founding member Håkan Jonsson playing drums, but he did contribute in the songwriting process with the rest of the lineup.[39]

Musical style and ideology

Since the first stage of their career, Watain possess often been compared to Dissection[3][40] or considered to be influenced by Ofermod.[41] Erik Danielsson confirmed that "Watain and Dissection undertake indeed have a lot in common as bands, both musically and spiritually",[3] but also replied that questions like these "are completely irrelevant in relation to the great abomination from which both Dissection and Watain were born out of".[3] Bands named as influences include Bathory,[14]Mayhem,[4][16][42]Mercyful Fate,[14][42]Death SS,[42]Samael[42] and Necrovore.[42]

Allmusic journalist Eduardo Rivadavia wrote that their debut album Rabid Death's Curse "suggested that Watain were, at finest, content to produce intentionally rough facsimiles of inspirational forefathers ranging from Bathory to Mayhem and, at worst, unable to complete anything else" but "fulfills an important function in Watain's career arc, one that the casual listener need never pay heed to, but which loyal fans will likely want to examine at some point in request to better comprehend all that followed".[43] Ronald Ziegler of the German Horrible Eyesfanzine described the album's sound as "very Swedish, very Death Metalish".[2] According to Rivadavia, the second album Casus Luciferi sounds less Norwegian and more Swedish than earlier efforts.[44]Sworn to the Dark "adds a lot of really catchy and melodic riffs and some stylish guitar counter-melodies" to "droning guitars and frantic blast beats"; the vocals "fall somewhere in between black and death metal.

They are raw and aggressive, but still understandable."[45] Rivadavia called "Storm of the Antichrist" "a ideal balance between Venom or Darkthrone's outright savagery and straightforward execution, and Emperor's spiraling arrangements and progressive orientation" and pointed out their "greater appreciation for unlike forms of heavy metal, far beyond black metal's often tiresomely stubborn 'f*ck everyone else' mindset" as shown in the "thrash-like speed-picking" of "Underneath the Cenotaph", the "magnificently dense, almost Opeth-like riffs" introducing "The Serpent's Chalice" and "the Iron Maiden-quoting bassline" at the end of "The Light That Burns the Sun".[46]Thomas Gabriel Fischer of Triptykon, whose former band Celtic Frost toured with Watain in , compared them to his old band Hellhammer "in a totally positive manner.

Watain approach their tune with a certain level of respect, and a certain level of mystique. What they are doing is not just a performance; it goes much deeper than that. That reminds me so much of the fine sides of Hellhammer."[47]

According to Danielsson, Lawless Darkness is based more upon Watain themselves than other bands and was compared to Bathory, Master's Hammer, Fields of the Nephilim and Deep Purple.[48] Despite their progression, they were still "retaining some cardboard-sounding drumbeats in honor of lo-fi pioneers like Venom and Bathory" as well as using "Emperor-worthy melodies".[49]Rock Hard journalist Götz Kühnemund compared the album to old Rainbow and Dio-era Black Sabbath due to the atmosphere, as adequately as to Bathory's more titanic releases.[50]

Watain identify themselves as theistic Satanists.

All lyrics, unless contributed by members of other bands, are written by vocalist Erik Danielsson,[3] who summed up their topics as "the religion they are based upon, Satanism, or – to avoid confusion – Devilworship".[2] Danielsson believes that a belief system shared by all members "is a must in order to do something as intimate and personal as music".[51] Watain supports the Misanthropic Luciferian Order, Jon Nödtveidt's cult which is associated with animal maltreatment and murder.[52][53]

In , members of the band did the Hitler salute and wore T-shirts of the NSBM band Absurd after their gig on German Uncover Air.[54] Asked about this incident in an interview to the German online metal magazine , Erik Danielsson replied that calling them Nazis was the only way such people were capable to deal with a ebony wolf entering a "herd of white sheep".

When asked about his views on NSBM, he explained that "NSBM is a joke, a despaired approach of people who're incapable to comprehend the perversion and the insanity of Black Metal. They're trying to appear extreme and limit their selves in their conception to that kind of culture, which describes something that we wouldn't care less about.

Fuck the world! Black Metal doesn't have anything to do with the world like you grasp it."[52] The band have publicly distanced themselves from, and openly criticised, Antisemitism and far-right ideologies, describing these as "one of the greatest evils that people today know".

In an interview for American webzine Invisible Oranges, Danielsson said that "That is the one thing you cannot glorify. The Anti-Semitic and right-wing conservative connections that people hold long accused black metal to be a platform for contain very little to do with what we stand for.

To me, it should be quite obvious that we would own been some of the first people to be executed in the Third Reich with the whole idea of the National Socialists being based upon a kingdom of bright-eyed little Aryans, and we are quite honestly the very opposite of that.

[Laughs] There's an extremely crucial line to draw there, and I've realized that that's the only devil that people realize these days." He explicitly rejected "racial ideas" as "irrelevant", saying that "I study other cultures, and I am very interested in radical ideas of viewing the world, but when it comes to racial ideas, I've never really found a speech or text about it that could make sense to me.

When we view the planet from a spiritual perspective, racial ideas become very mundane, and they become very insignificant. We are talking about an animal that developed into man and that is, to me, where my primary enemy lies. Not in any specific kind of that animal.

We are all that animal, and I am completely uninterested in any ideas contrary to that, to be honest."[55]

Watain's guitarist Pelle Forsberg was denied entry into the Combined States when the band arrived to perform with Morbid Angel.

The guitarist later blamed it on changes in immigration policy.[56]

Live performances and allegations of animal abuse

Watain has been known to perform live using candles, pyrotechnics, and, akin to numerous ebony metal acts, limbs and bones of animal carcasses.[57][58] The band gained notoriety doing this and even dousing audience members with animal blood (which is part of the normal Watain Ritual) in a show at the Brooklyn Night Bazaar in , reportedly causing some attendees to vomit.[59][60][61] This soon garnered attention on TMZ.[62]

The band's members are alleged to have killed pigeons and even attempted to acquire dogs from the homeless as a source of blood for their concerts.[63] Erik Danielsson has hinted at doing so in several interviews[64][65] but denied doing so in [66]

On 7 Protest , the band's concert in Singapore was canceled hours before the event was set to happen.

This was authorised by the Info-communications Media Development Leadership due to security concerns akin to their lyrical content and previous concert events.[67]

Members

Current members

  • Erik Danielsson a.k.a.

    E. – vocals, bass (–present)

  • Håkan Jonsson a.k.a. H. – drums (–present)
  • Pelle Forsberg a.k.a. P. – guitars (–present)

Live members

  • Alvaro Lillo – bass (–present), guitars ()
  • H. Death (Hampus Eriksson) – guitars (, , , –present)
  • E.

    Forcas (Emil Svensson) – drums (–present)

Former members

  • Christian "Crippe" Blom a.k.a.

    Watain is a Swedish black metal band, formed in Forcas of fellow Uppsala death metal band Degial was recruited as stay drummer. Watain was formed in A split LP with Malign was planned in the preliminary s and supposed to be issued by Grim Rune Productions before the recording of Watain's second album Casus Luciferi[ 2 ] but never got released.

    C. – guitars (–)

  • John Sjölin a.k.a. John Doe – dwell guitar (–)
  • Necromorbus (Tore Stjerna) – session bass, live guitar (–)
  • Ynas "Mörk" Lindskog a.k.a. Y. – live bass (–)[68][69][70]
  • Selim Lemouchi a.k.a.

    S.L. – live guitar (, ; died )

  • Gottfrid Åhman – live guitar ()
  • Set Teitan (Davide Totaro) – live guitar (–)[71]

Discography

Studio albums

On 16 October , Season of Mist re-released the first four studio albums as a box set entitled Satanic Deathnoise from the Beyond.

Live albums

Year Title Peak chart positions
SWE
[72]
Black Metal Sacrifice
  • Data: 8 February
  • Label: Independent
—
The Ritual Macabre
  • Data:
  • Label: Sakreligious Warfare Productions
—
Tonight We Raise Our Cups and
Toast in Angels Blood: A Tribute to Bathory
  • Date: 23 February
  • Label: Sound Pollution
  • Format: 12" vinyl (33⅓ RPM)
2
Die in Fire – Live in Hell (Agony and Ecstasy Over Stockholm)
  • Date: 3 November
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Format: CD, vinyl, cassette, digital
21
[81]

EPs

Year Title
The Essence of Dark Purity
  • Data: October
  • Label: Grim Rune
The Misanthropic Ceremonies (split with Diabolicum)
  • Date: 25 February
  • Label: Spikekult Rekords
Sathanas / Luciferi Tour EP (split with Mayhem)
  • Date: December
  • Label: His Master's Noise

Video albums

Year Title Peak chart positions
SWE
[82]		FIN
[83]
Opus Diaboli – 13 Years of Black Metal Magic
  • Date: 7 May
  • Label: His Master's Noise
14

Singles

Year Title Certifications
(sales thresholds)		Album
"Reaping Death" Lawless Darkness
"All That May Bleed" The Unrestrained Hunt
"Fuck Off, We Murder" (GG Allin cover) non-album single
"Nuclear Alchemy" Trident Wolf Eclipse
"The Howling" The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain

Demos

Year Title
Go Fuck Your Jewish "God" (pl)
Promo
Puzzles ov Flesh
Corona Mortis

Music videos

Year Title Director Album
"Outlaw" Watain, Johan Bååth[85]The Wild Hunt
"Nuclear Alchemy" Claudio Marino, Artax Film[86]Trident Wolf Eclipse
"The Howling" Claudio Marino, Artax Film[87]The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain
"We Remain" Johan Bååth[88]The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain

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