WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM: New Album Artwork, Track Listing Unveiled

WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM will release its fourth full-length album, "Celestial Lineage", on September 13 via Southern Lord Records. The CD's cover art was created by photographic artist Alison Scarpulla, and the package was designed by Aaron Turner (ISIS, TWILIGHT, Hydra Head Records). The beautiful, organic layout puts the album conceptually right in line with the band's previous "Two Hunters" and "Black Cascade" releases, and fittingly completes this triad of releases from the band. Three songs on the album feature Jessika Kenney's liturgical choir and solo voice, as heard on "Two Hunters" as well as 2009's "Malevolent Grain" EP, the album also including orations from Aaron Turner (ISIS).

"Celestial Lineage" track listing:

01. Thuja Magus Imperium
02. Permanent Changes in Consciousness
03. Subterranean Initiation
04. Rainbow Illness
05. Woodland Cathedral
06. Astral Blood
07. Prayer of Transformation

Stated WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM drummer Aaron Weaver of the writing process for "Celestial Lineage": "An ornate constellation of imagery is what that guides the songwriting process. Cedar temples crowned with burnished bronze domes glimpsed in a remote valley. Wild Midsummer bonfires and feasting on roasted flesh. All of the sounds serve to evoke the images that exist in our minds eye. With this record we're going to explore an entirely new palette of sound. We want the instruments to sound like the liturgical music of a cedar cult."

Besides closing out a trilogy within WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM's own annals, "Celestial Lineage" also marks the final release to ever be recorded in engineering wizard Randall Dunn's infamous Aleph Studio, the birthplace of a plethora of groundbreaking releases from EARTH, SUNN O))), BORIS, CAVE SINGERS, BJORK/OMAR SOULEYMAN and countless more over the past decade, as well as where the immense tones and energy on WITTR's lauded "Two Hunters" and "Black Cascade" albums were captured.

In celebration of the new album, WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM will take to the road throughout North America in several waves to kick off the touring cycle in support of "Celestial Lineage". With very D.I.Y. ethics fueling the tour dates, the horde will perform in many wooded locations and smaller, off-beat venues along the way. Some of these specific locations for the shows won't be announced until just days before some of the shows, where fans are urged to reference WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM's official web site for exact show locations and/or directions.