Celestial Lineage - CVLT Nation - " Wolves In The Throne Room have created their masterpiece"
http://www.cvltnation.com/wolves-in-the-throne-room-celestial-lineage/
The tension worldwide is palpable as Wolves In The Throne Room prepare to release their fourth full length album Celestial Lineage (Southern Lord). Expectations for this album are high to say the least. WITTR quickly rose to prominence with their 2007 LP Two Hunters. The band toured rigorously behind the critically...read full review
Celestial Lineage - Metal Review - 9/10
http://metalreview.com/reviews/6349/wolves-in-the-throne-room-celestial-lineage
don’t know about y’all, but I’ve had it up to my receding hairline with the genre-tag war, especially when applied incorrectly. The hot one these days is “post.” What does that even mean, "post"? I imagine some Andy Warhol-wannabe artist-type talking out of their ass: “Well, when all of art is like,...read full review
Celestial Lineage - Pitchfork - 8.6/10
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15835-celestial-lineage/
In a 2009 Show No Mercy interview with Olympia "astral black metal" band Wolves in the Throne Room, I mentioned that, as a byproduct of their relative success outside of the underground, they'd inevitably be on the receiving end of plenty of scenester backlash. (Black metal can be a strange...read full review
Celestial Lineage - AV Club - 10/10
http://www.avclub.com/articles/wolves-in-the-throne-room-celestial-lineage,61602/
Much has been made—mostly by the band itself—of Wolves In The Throne Room’s hermetic existence in the arboreal wilds of Oregon. Amid the cedars, the story goes, sit brothers Aaron and Nathan Weaver, communing with earth spirits and crafting ambitious, atmospheric black-metal hymns. The latest of those hymns is Celestial...read full review
Celestial Lineage - Chronicles of Chaos - 9/10
http://www.chroniclesofchaos.com/reviews/albums/2-6357_wolves_in_the_throne_room_celestial_lineage.aspx
It is not a secret, I enjoy Wolves In the Throne Room. In fact, it was this band which helped shape most of my understanding on contemporary west coast American black metal. In 2007, Washington state based Wolves In the Throne Room, released _Two Hunters_ which was a landmark in contemporary American black metal. The album not only solidified...read full review