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- Record Label: Southern Lord Records
- Release Date: Sep 13, 2011
- 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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- Record Label: Southern Lord Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Heavy Metal
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Sep 22, 2011The 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.
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Sep 22, 2011Wolves in the Throne Room continue to do the genre proud with contributions such as this.
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Sep 23, 2011Celestial Lineage feels like the contemporary American scene's defining statement after San Francisco group Weakling's seminal 2000 offering Dead As Dreams.
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UncutSep 23, 2011Theirs remains a stubbornly extreme sound, although Celestial Lineage finds new ways to combine heaviness with solemn beauty. [Oct 2011, p.86]
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The WireDec 5, 2011This is the most introspective Wolves In The throne Room release to date. [Sep 2011, p59]
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Kerrang!Oct 25, 2011This blend of grace and discord never feels jarring, combining to produce an immersive, transcendental whole which reveals the true breadth of this duo's impressive artistry. [Sep 2011, p.51]
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Sep 22, 2011Celestial 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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