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Celestial Lineage - Wolves in the Throne Room
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87 out of 100

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  • Summary: The Washington state metal band's fourth studio album seeks to envision a place full of cedar trees for the listeners.

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  1. Positive: 11 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. The A.V. Club
    Sep 22, 2011
    100
    The latest of those hymns is Celestial Lineage--and as great as the group's two previous full-lengths were, Lineage is the first to truly, fully capture the Weavers' unholy vision of sylvan majesty and pagan mystique.
  2. All Music Guide
    Sep 22, 2011
    90
    Wolves in the Throne Room continue to do the genre proud with contributions such as this.
  3. No Ripcord
    Sep 22, 2011
    40
    Celestial Lineage may be well crafted and even (relatively) accessible but by eschewing the ideas that coloured their previous work, Wolves in the Throne Room have ended up creating something that's not really black, but rather quite grey.

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