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Watain

 
Artist: Watain
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Group Members:

Erik Danielsson, P. Forsberg, H. Jonsson, Set Teitan

Similar Artists:

Dissection, Usurper, Bathory

Influenced By:

Darkthrone, Opeth, Venom
  • Formed: 1998, Uppsala, Sweden
  • Genres: Rock
  • Representative Albums: "Sworn to the Dark", "Rabid Death's Curse", "Casus Luciferi

Biography

Black metal outfit Watain emerged from Uppsala, Sweden, in 1998, quickly gaining underground credibility with an uncompromising 7" release entitled "The Essence of Black Purity," then solidifying their commitment to the dark metal arts via 2000s thematically shocking (i.e. frequent odes to Satan and his pals), but instrumentally accomplished, Rabid Death's Curse album. This has since been followed by incrementally lauded but always reliably extreme releases such as 2000s Ritual Macabre live album, 2001's "The Misanthropic Ceremonies" split single with Diabolicum, 2003's Casus Luciferi LP, and 2007's Sworn to the Dark album. And, bucking underground metal tradition somewhat, Watain's lineup has remained consistently stable throughout these many years and releases, featuring vocalist/bassist Erik Danielsson (also known as the editor of Hellish Massacre 'zine and the artist behind Cold Seed Creations), guitarists P. Forsberg and Set Teitan, bassist Tore Stjerna (a sometime producer and owner of Necromorbus Studio), and drummer H. Jonsson. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia, All Music Guide
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Watain

Watain, live at Jaxx, May 16, 2007.
Background information
Origin Uppsala, Sweden
Genres Black metal
Years active 1998 – present
Labels Season of Mist
Associated acts Dissection
Website templeofwatain.com
Members
Erik Danielsson
Håkan Jonsson
Pelle Forsberg
Davide Totaro
Alvaro Lillo

Watain is a Swedish black metal band from Uppsala, formed in 1998.[1]

Contents

Biography

The band's name hails from a recording by the American black metal group VON.[2] After recording a few demos which the band does not intend to re-release,[3] their first official release was the 7" EP The Essence of Black Purity on the Swedish label Grim Rune Productions, recorded in Necromorbus Studios 1999.[1] The French black metal label Drakkar Productions offered Watain a deal for two full length albums, and the debut album Rabid Death's Curse was released in 2000.[1] After the release, Watain toured and performed alongside bands such as Rotting Christ, Antaeus, Dark Funeral and Malign.[4]

In 2003, Watain again entered the studio to record their second full-length album, Casus Luciferi, which features lyrics by members of other bands like Funeral Mist, Katharsis and Antaeus. The 'Stellar Dimension Infernal Tour' through Europe followed, alongside Secrets of the Moon and Averse Sefira. They also toured throughout 18 countries with Dissection on their two months-long 'Rebirth of Dissection' tour in 2004. Watain member Set Teitan was officially also a member of Dissection at this point, and Erik Danielsson played bass in live shows.[4]

In 2006, members of the band did the Hitler salute and wore t-shirts of the NSBM band Absurd after their gig on German Party.San-Metal-Open Air, leading to accusations of being a Nazi band.[5][6] After this incident, Erik Danielsson (vocals and bass) explained the band sees NSBM as a joke in an interview to the German online metal magazine Metal.de[7]:

“

What do you think of NSBM and should Black Metal follow a political ideology at all, respectively contain it?

NSBM is a joke, a despaired approach of people who're incapable to comprehend the perversion and the insanity of Black Metal. They're trying to appear extreme and limit their selves in their conception to that kind of society, which describes something that we wouldn't care less about. Fuck the world! Black Metal doesn't have anything to do with the world like you know it.

 ”

Their third full-length album Sworn To The Dark was released in Europe on February 21, 2007, then they toured Europe along with Celtic Frost, Kreator and Legion of the Damned.

Members

  • E (Erik Danielsson) - vocals, bass
  • H (Håkan Jonsson) - drums
  • P (Pelle Forsberg) - guitar
  • Set Teitan (Davide Totaro) - guitar (live only)
  • A (Alvaro Lillo) - bass (live only)

Previous members

  • C. Blom - guitar (1998-2000)
  • Jonas "Y." Lindskog - bass (a.k.a. "Mörk" and "Whorth")
  • Tore Stjerna - session bass (2000-2002)

Discography

Studio albums

Live & other albums

References

  1. ^ a b c Rivadavia, Eduardo "Watain Biography", Allmusic, Macrovision Corporation
  2. ^ "Watain - The Dark Side" (interview), Disobedience Zine, 2007
  3. ^ mirgilus.com: Interview with Watain
  4. ^ a b Dow, Conor (2008) "Skinning The Lambs", SLUG Magazine, October 2008
  5. ^ http://www.powermetal.de/content/konzert/show-982.html
  6. ^ http://fightfascism.wordpress.com/2007/05/13/under-the-black-sun-festival-mit-extrem-rechten-musikgruppen/
  7. ^ "Interview / Story: Watain (in german)". http://www.metal.de/stories.php4?was=story&id=897. 

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Watain
Erik Danielsson · Håkan Jonsson · Pelle Forsberg
C. Blom · Tore Stjerna
Studio albums
EPs & split
Live & demos
Black Metal Sacrifice · Go Fuck Your Jewish "God" · The Ritual Macabre · Rabid Death's Curse (demo) · Promo 2002 · Puzzlez Ov Flesh

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