Fricke’s Picks: Howlin’ Reign

Headlining a post-SXSW metal-thon at the Austin club Red 7, the Pacific Northwest band Wolves in the Throne Room made their feral noise — double-guitar drone and machine-gun riff spray, mounting-thunder drumming, singer-guitarist Nathan Weaver’s burnt-throat bellow — in a dramatic half-light cast by candelabra onstage. The band’s third album, Black Cascade (Southern Lord), is [...]

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