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Release Date
28 April 2022
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Length
10 tracks
I deal a lot with finality and finitude and mortality in my work as a musician and as a writer,” Watain ringleader Erik Danielsson says. “I think it’s invigorating to contemplate. I find that life gets a bit more vivid and intense when you are aware of the mortality of things.” You can feel that intensity on the Swedish black metal band’s seventh album, The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain, which explores death on a personal and global level, often through the invocation of female archetypes both real and imagined. “It’s a bit unusual to have an album title that refers to the band,” Danielsson acknowledges. “But I would love to hear an album called The Agony & Ecstasy of Morbid Angel, for example. And I wanted something with some friction in it. You get a little bit curious, I think.”
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