The Agony & Ecstasy Of Watain

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The chronicle of Jeff from Radio Métal:
Watain and its shuddering black metal has managed to create its cult and make itself known. Between controversies, deliberately fueled rumors, anti-cosmic satanism, dubious bragging on TF1, it is obviously also musically that the project makes headlines with the emblematic Lawless Darkness, the controversial and very melodic The Wild Hunt, and the violent radicalism of Trident Wolf Eclipse... No one is in the heads of the members of Watain. Better yet, no one wants to be in the heads of the members of Watain! However, those who thought that the band had nothing left to say after two decades and all these different adventures were very mistaken. To put it simply, The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain could be the best-of album with hits from the band that never existed. On the same record, the Swedes manage to be as beastly as their most aggressive works, while reaching new heights with their melodic lines (even claiming to surpass those of Dissection, the band's primary inspiration) and adding a layer of unreleased material and experimentation, notably with Farida Lemouchi on "We Remain"... Watain has built its own myth, The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain is certainly its pinnacle!

Watain emerged from hell in 1998 and has since risen to become one of the most well-known and notorious Black Metal bands in the world. Its legacy is often mentioned with fear, but rarely with indifference, and its concerts have become a global phenomenon. With its highly anticipated seventh studio album, Watain continues to electrify its audience with its inimitable black metal magic, where the sacred and the solemn clash with raw and unaltered force. Recorded live inside an old church in the Swedish countryside, "The Agony and Ecstasy of Watain" takes the listener one step further into the intimacy of the band, which, although always surrounded by rumors and controversies, has always sought to express itself in the most sincere and authentic way possible.