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98
Primordial Arcana combines the band’s better features into one, defining release.
80
As a whole, the album doesn't provide a lot sonically that fans haven't heard before, but it doesn't need to because WITTR create their most uneasy balance of brute force, massive power, and brooding, trepidatious calm to date.
80
They sound fresher and more creative than ever. The Weaver brothers are finally venturing out of the underground and up into the light.
80
The record is a call to adventure, and like fantasy stories promising transformation and reward, it’s worth the undertaking.
80
Primordial Arcana is an example of a band not only matching up to their established greatness, but far exceeding it.
80
Make no mistake, Wolves In the Throne Room are an absolute force of nature: powerful, dark and triumphant. Primordial Arcana manages to be all these things at once.
80
Primordial Arcana follows in its predecessors footsteps of feeling more akin to an experience than an album. But more than that – here we find a Wolves In The Throne Room advocating their own expansion, and they’ve never sounded grander.
70
For the first time in years, the band seem more concerned with mortal matters than transcending into more lofty, atmospheric realms.
70
Overall, Primordial Arcana is a mature and highly enjoyable collection from Wolves in the Throne Room. While not perfect, and not quite reaching the heights of those early, seminal works, it is perhaps the purest distillation of their new sound that began with Celestial Lineage.
55
Working out of their home studio in the Washington woods, experimentally minded brothers Nathan and Aaron Weaver return to their roots in atmospheric black metal, but they no longer sound like pioneers.
Not really a huge black metal fan tbh, but i really enjoyed this album. It has very lowkey production, but the melodies and instrumentals work well together while the vocals serve almost as atmosphere rather than being the forefront of the song as a whole. An interesting choice, and one im 100% on board with.
WITTR deliver their best album since Celestite through a series of straight to the point atmospheric black metal. It’s not reinventing the wheel but is without question delivering fun and visceral black metal tunes.
This certain album is special for me and yes i may overrate it but let me, Wolves shocked me with their previous studio album "Thrice woven" even if i had gone thru a nice amount of folk-ambient bm before, now with Primordial Arcana they show up once again with superficially the same concept yet for me it bears new wave of can we get from such genre. Wolves lyrically present virtually poetic language and vivid wordscapes of their beloved homeland as PNW is.
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Track List
| 1 | Mountain Magick 5:55 | 76 |
| 2 | Spirit of Lightning 6:24 | 72 |
| 3 | Through Eternal Fields 5:54 | 76 |
| 4 | Primal Chasm (Gift of Fire) 5:01 | 70 |
| 5 | Underworld Aurora 7:29 | 75 |
| 6 | Masters of Rain and Storm 10:43 | 77 |
| 7 | Eostre 3:05 | 73 |
| 8 | Skyclad Passage 5:05 | 73 |
Total Length: 49 minutes
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| #10 | / | Decibel |
| #14 | / | Sputnikmusic |
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2y
To be expected honestly, p4k hasn't liked any wolves in the throne room album since Celestial Lineage
Added on: June 10, 2021