Watain – The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:33 minutes | 682 MB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nuclear Blast
Any kind of extreme music act that sticks around for several years faces the challenge of knowing how to proceed once it is three or four albums deep into its career. Pushing the intensity, whether it’s speed or heaviness or whatever, will reach a ceiling at some point, but Scandinavian black metal maniacs WATAIN have successfully challenged expectations for years. They’ve proven that they’re an extreme band that remains relevant years after their inception, much like bands as varied as IMMOLATION, GOATWHORE and NAPALM DEATH. With “The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain”, the Swedish band’s seventh full-length, WATAIN has created one of the best albums of its career just one year shy of being a quarter century old.
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