After 13 years, since their debut album’s release in 2000, Swedish black metallers Watain have finally released their first official music video. The video is for the track “Outlaw” and comes from their latest album The Wild Hunt. Watch the video in the player above.
“Outlaw” was produced by Watain and Johan Bååth, director of the band’s Opus Diaboli DVD in 2012. You have to love the visuals that include grainy and gritty images of surgical procedures, live performances, psychotic behavior, and more. Plus the music is brutal with an accessibility that should appeal outside the black metal circle (notably, Pelle Forsberg’s guitar solo has a distinct Kirk Hammett sound).
Watain’s The Wild Hunt was released in August 2013, and can be ordered on Amazon: CD – $10.99 and MP3 $5.99
Watain commented about the “Outlaw” video:
The ‘Outlaw’ video is a knife stab in the face of today’s clean and witty metal scene and yet another step for us to bring back something real and extreme into this limping music movement.
If you’d like to read more about the video, visit templeofwatain.com to catch an interview in which details about the video are detailed.
Watain Black Death tour dates:
Dec 05 Manchester, Academy 2, UK
Dec 06 Glasgow, Garage, UK
Dec 07 Birmingham, The Library, UK
Dec 08 London, Electric Ballroom, UK
Dec 13 Eindhoven Metal Meeting, NL
Dec 14 Paris, Le Trabendo, FRA
Black Metal Australia Tour with MAYHEM
09.01.2014 Amplifier Bra, Perth, Australia (WATAIN only)
10.10.2014 The HiFi, Melbourne, Australia
11.01.2014 The Factory Theater, Sydney, Australia
12.01.2014 The HiFi, Brisbane, Australia
23.01.2014 Fryshuset
25.01.2014 Lille Vega, Vesterbro, Denmark
20.06.2014 Hellfest, Clisson, France
07.-09.08.2014 Party-San Open Air, Schlotheim, Germany
More dates to be announced soon!
Rock Hard \m/
