New York Times spotlights Olympia band

May 26, 2009 at 9:28am

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The Olympia band Wolves In the Throne Room made the New York Times this week:

It's Heavy Week. WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM, a black-metal trio from Olympia, Wash., arrive in Manhattan bringing palpitating blast beats and a lush, cavernous guitar sound; the band creates its art out of a radical-ecology consciousness that's new in a metal subgenre best known for antireligious venom. Two excellent New York bands open: Krallice, featuring the obsessive metal-minimalist guitarist Mick Barr, and the dramatically swirly, doomy A Storm of Light. Tuesday at 7 p.m., the Studio at Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street, East Village, (212) 353-1600; $12.

And on Tuesday SUNN 0))) releases its new album, Monoliths & Dimensions. Where Wolves operate more or less along the extended grid of metal and punk, Sunn O))) goes for distilled moments of long static drones, incantation and overall ear-stun; it has dirty-classical tendencies. At heart it's an electric bass-and-guitar duo, but its guests here include the violist Eyvind Kang, a couple of choirs and, on one track, three acoustic bassists.

The Wolves in the Throne Room play the Studio at Webster Hall tonight. Check them out if you're in New York City.

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