Wolves In The Throne Room Unveil Tenth Album ‘Estuary,’ Share Video for “Ghosts In The Obelisks”

Pacific Northwest black metal stalwarts Wolves In The Throne Room have announced their tenth studio album, Estuary, arriving via Relapse Records on October 23. The record follows 2023’s Crypt Of Ancestral Knowledge EP and expands the band’s signature atmospheric sound into a fully realized post-apocalyptic concept.

Our new LP Estuary is set 1,000 years in the future, after the end of civilization. Survivors of a cataclysm wander the haunted ruins. It is a world of mutant creatures and open portals. Post-apocalyptic religion takes form in a wild landscape…

If wilderness overcame the cities in the future, the estuaries would be realms of power and magic. Within the album’s world-building, the estuaries are key nexus points where magic has taken on physical form. Spirits good and evil walk the earth.

The band self-produced Estuary primarily at their own Owl Lodge studio in Olympia, Washington, with touring bassist Galen Baudhuin contributing to the sessions. Frontman Nathan Weaver directed the video for the eight-minute lead single “Ghosts In The Obelisks,” which visualizes the album’s medieval-inflected future aesthetic. Watch it below.

TRACKLIST:
01 “Estuary”
02 “Knights Of Tiamat”
03 “Foretold In Reflections”
04 “The Orca Cliffs”
05 “Ghosts Among The Obelisks”
06 “Wretched Spirits, Land Of Light”

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