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| 2.5 average | zaruyache | September 20th 17 |
The tinny guitar tone doesn't fit the music and the production is really questionable in parts. There are times where riffs fall flat because they simply lack the oomph that a more natural sound would've given them, or the rhythm guitar is turned down low in the mix for no reason. While previous albums had really organic sound and full atmosphere, "Thrice Woven" just lacks that kind of depth. The album does help WitTR expand their sound a little bit (there are a few second wave-y/punk riffs, and spoken word sections by Steve Von Till), but its sound presentation unfortunately doesn't do it any favors.
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| 3.0 good | Timezown2 | September 20th 17 |
I give it a 3 for the same reasons zaruyache did. I like the songs a lot, the production kills this album for me though. The guitars used to be thick, fuzzy, and dripping with atmosphere that dominates WITTRs sound. On Thrice Woven they are weak, flat, and boring. This often kills awesome leads (such as right after the interlude on 'The Old Ones Are With Us') that would normally sound so much more epic. The drums went from sounding organic and ritualistic to very mechanical and boring. This is all very weird to me considering the same people who mixed their previous work mixed this one too.rThe stand out songs for me are the 'The Old Ones Are With Us' and 'Fires Roar In The Palace Of The Moon'. This album could have been great. Hopefully they do a remaster or a re-recording of it if enough people criticize the production >.
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| 3.5 great | Have you tried jamming HELCARAXE CONTRIBUTOR | July 17th 17 |
The first track is really promising and treads slightly different ground for Wolves. Let's hope this kicks the past two albums in the dirt because Wolves has definitely been in a bit of a slump. rEdit-this was a beauty. It doesn't quite touch albums like Diadem or Two Hunters, but the creative ambition has been revived and Wolves does a perfect job balancing soft, soothing ambience with good ole' icy cold black metal. I'd also like to mention that the drumming is probably the most vigorous and "busy" that WITTR has ever done.
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| 3.5 great | Bedex | August 17th 22 |
Yea it does go back to a lot of their former elements and offers a nice blend of their black metal past, their folk touches and their more recent ambient and choral ventures, but alas this appealing mix is being showcased by a relatively tepid and only mildly convincing album. There very much is this effect I have previously found with WITTR where the soft sections are good, but because you know the harsh bm sections they lead up to aren't all that harsh and don't always have the best riffage, sounding a bit uninspired, well then it feels like you are waiting and building up to something that will be underwhelming which makes the wait itself lose a lot of its interest. That being said it's still a pretty decent listen, and there are some cool sections, and also I don't think my conditions were ideal, but I don't think this will really ever be one of my favourite wittr or bm albums, and to the surprise of no one, my favourite bit was the droney, ambient ending on 5. 3.4
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| 3.5 great | Erwann S. EMERITUS | February 3rd 20 |
After the much criticized Celestite (even though they claim the opposite, metalheads do not like change), WitTR came back with a record that succeeds where Black Cascade and, more importantly, Celestial Lineage failed: originality. If their third album did not bring anything new to the tremolo table but was still a new sonic direction for the band, their subsequent record was a mere (yet good) copycat of that new sound. Thrice Woven brings back the eerie female-vocal-led ambient moments as well as the folk touches, and yet it also retains the more aggressive approach of black metal that was prominent on their third and fourth album, making this their most dynamic album yet. It's equally Cascadian and second-wave black metal, and if it does not match their earliest version of themselves, at least they're always trying to reinvent Wolves in the Throne Room's sound.
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| 3.5 great | cjbizzlebizzle | December 10th 17 |
The return to darkness for the Cascadian black metal troupe out of Olympia, WA. Thrice Woven sees WITTR moving towards their roots instead of the electronic sounds they preferred on their last release Celestite, in 2014. In short it is very clear WITTR have not lost their touch or dulled in approaching atmopsheric black metal that makes heavy use of dark folky and ambient sounds. Blast beats, throaty ghost vocals, wavering clean backing accompaniments and rich guitars that make you want to drown into a sea of firs and pines. There is strength in the songwriting and flow of the album as the music alternates between walls of dark melancholic guitars and folk acoustic/ clean vocal passages. One weakness in the songwriting is the approach to each long track is rather similar. WITTR have always been extremely proficient in atmospheres and this album is no exception. Put this one on loud and close your eyes and you will just get lost; imagine yourself in a cold desolate forest and it gets even better. To summarize WITTR have released another great black metal album that stands up with the best of modern black metal even if Thrice Woven as a whole feels a bit familiar standing up to their discography.
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| 0.0 | botb | September 19th 17 |
This is enjoyable so far but god damn do I hate the drum production
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| 3.0 good | nbats | September 28th 25 |
| 3.5 great | MaSuPe | July 27th 25 |
| 4.5 superb | Ectier | May 12th 25 |
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| 4.0 excellent | madtwoo | July 10th 24 |
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| 4.0 excellent | Greem | October 28th 17 |
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| 3.5 great | Wolfe | October 9th 17 |
| 2.5 average | gilly | October 9th 17 |
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| 4.0 excellent | Prole | October 3rd 17 |
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| 3.5 great | Trebor. EMERITUS | September 28th 17 |
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| 4.3 superb | Ryan P STAFF | September 20th 17 |
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