The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain: Limited Edition Digipack CD AOTY2315 inspired by a Twitter exchange

inspired by a Twitter exchange between Abrasive Trees guitarist/songwriter Matthew Rochford

features the worn and faded ring of an LP

the location was chosen to give the songs a Basement Tapes–like feel in what was termed “a clubhouse concept

Opening the album with the unassuming acoustic folk of plaintive “When Winter Comes Around

It was released by Def Jam Recordings on August 30

The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain: Limited Edition Digipack CD AOTY2315 inspired by a Twitter exchangeWatain crawled out of Satan's c**t in 1998, and has since then ascended and grown into one of the world's most well known and notorious Black Metal bands. Their legacy is often referred to with fear, love, confusion or awe, but seldom with indifference. Their infamous live shows have become a worldwide phenomenon; inimitable ceremonies of wild Black Metal fanatism where the sacred and solemn collides with raw unadulterated force. With their greatly