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Wolves in the Throne Room
US Black Metal masters Wolves in the Throne Room create melancholic atmospheres that are an ode to rainstorms, woodsmoke and the wild energies of the Pacific Northwest. In October 2023 they unleashed CRYPT OF ANCESTRAL KNOWLEDGE. This EP contains two Epic Metal tracks as well as two Atmospheric Industrial Journeys that push the band’s sound into invigorating new directions. The Wolves will be assaulting European shores with support from GAEREA and MORTIFERUM in Spring 2024!
Earth
Over the course of their thirty trips around the sun, Earth has remained diligent in their commitment to monolithic minimalism. The sonic vocabulary may have changed—from their early years churning out seismic drone metal on albums like Earth 2 (1993) to the dusty Morricone-tinged comeback album Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method (2005) to the meditative rock approach of Primitive and Deadly (2014)—but the underlying principle of austerity and restraint remains a constant. With their latest album Full Upon Her Burning Lips, Earth purges the layers of auxiliary instrumentation that embellished some of their previous records and deconstructed their dynamic to the core duo of Dylan Carlson on guitar and bass and Adrienne Davies on drums and percussion. In the process, they tapped into the Platonic ideal of Earth—an incarnation of the long running band bolstered by the authority of purpose, where every note and every strike on the drum kit carries the weight of the world.
Steve Von Till
Steve Von Till is most widely recognized as vocalist & guitarist in heavy post-psychedelic punk legends Neurosis.
But, the breadth of his talents and interests reaching far beyond that band's thunderous intensity have been well established over the course of related projects like the experimental offshoot Tribes of Neurot, psych-drone band Harvestman, & acoustic guitar based solo releases.
Steve Von Till has made a life’s work out of seeking the elemental. With a solo discography that stretches back more than two decades, he has toiled in a shadow realm, peeling back layers of reality in a never-ending search for true meaning and raw emotion.
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Byssus
Byssus is dark, dreamlike, forest folk driven by vocal harmony, the traditional irish frame drum, finger picked guitar, and the drone of accordion and harmonium. We offer music in devotion to the resilient inter-species entanglements that defy the logic of empire.
Our melodies emerge out of the relentless grief and terror that result from disconnection from the living earth and reverence and wonderment for the ancient and enduring.
We sing to weave ourselves into deeper relationships. Byssus is Burl Wood (Gembrokers, Inle Elni), Michael Korchonnoff (Novemthree, River, Alda), and Taylore (Athame, Inle Elni).
"...a dark melody that is equally sun drenched and spiked from the cold of the woods."-A Blaze Anzus
Band website: www.byssusfolk.com
Instagram: @byssusfolk
Catal Huyuk
Playing a handmade box guitar, percussion and newly introduced vocals, Catal Huyuk's primordial rhythms and hypnotic tones evoke an atavistic future.
Birthed in the darkness of the Winter Solstice 2020, their name is an homage to the partnership cultures of Old Europe, buried beneath the dust of the Anatolian Plains.
Their music is a transmutation of frequencies existing in the liminality between the chthonic and the cosmic.
Chrome Ghost
Sacramento's Chrome Ghost has been exploring the boundaries of heavy since 2015. Taking influence from the hard-to-categorize metal outliers like Torche, Boris, Melvins, and Baroness, Chrome Ghost mixes the extremes of soft beauty with massive heaviness that has become their trademark on albums like 2019's The Diving Bell and 2022's House of Falling Ash. The explosive dynamics of their live performances continue to grow their audience as the band approaches a decade of music.
Cowardice
From the far reaches of the northeastern US, hail Cowardice. Intertwining subsonically down-tuned guitars, soaring melodies, and glacial passages, Cowardice seeks to find root in the atmospheres that make these components melt together in a haunting amalgamation. It is the embodiment of sonic despair - doom metal pressed to its furthest limits.
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deathCAVE
On a purely visceral level, deathCAVE is a kaleidoscope of metallic delights—dizzying peaks of cosmic doom, rabid blasts of black metal, salivatory slabs of bottom feeder sludge, and triumphant gales of galloping thrash. But beyond the gut-level gratification of the Seattle trio’s riff feasts is a more crucial tier of expression: a transcendental exploration of the inner self through sonic extremes. Ever since their formation in 2018 when bassist Michael Freiburger (Throne of Bone, Brain Scraper) and guitarist Tony Muñoz (Worship) asked drummer Benny Koslosky (Swampheavy) to join their project, deathCAVE has delivered a perfect distillation of Pacific Northwest heaviness—equal parts blunt-force bottomfeeder riffage, proto-metal swagger, and lysergic journeys.
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Dora Violet
Dora Violet fell in love with the drone of the hurdy gurdy over a decade ago and has been transfixed on playing it ever since. Drawing on her background in early music, she blends those influences with elements of ambient and drone music to create a musical landscape to let yourself wander through. The act of creating music is a ritual to her, that she feels honored to share with others.
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Entrain
Beastial antifascist atmospherics capturing the struggles to find meaning in a world of illusion, and overcome systems of oppression. Hailing from the Willapa Hills in the Pacific Northwest forest
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Exire
Exire is an enigmatic Folk project from Lake Zurich, IL. This solo endeavor turned musical collective is an exploration and synthesis of various musical traditions throughout time and place- with an emphasis on Medieval and Neoclassical sounds.
Fauna
Fauna was formed in 2004 out of a desire to explore the innate archetypal essence of the human animal, and to illuminate the ontological paradoxes of present-day human existence. Using Black Metal and elemental rituals in the creation of their performances, they draw the audience into a collective trance state as spirits of old are invoked and rites of renewal and ferocity are unleashed. Fauna exists in a world inherently full of meaning, alive, and aroar with the voices of myriad Others, and exalts the beauty of the human spirit in all its manifestations.
Fórn
Formed in 2012 in a particularly dismal and harsh winter in Boston MA, FÓRN draws inspiration from their predecessors, Grief, Burning Witch and Asunder, while remaining true to their natural progression. The suffocating darkness and soul crushing heaviness of their music is starkly evident as FÓRN channels its will to create cavernous wells of sludging doom atmosphere to create their unique brand of cerebral funeral sludge.
They have released several albums, EPs and splits over the past 12 years teaming up with highly respected labels, Gilead Media and Vendetta Records. In 2014 their debut LP, “The Departure of Consciousness” (released via Vendetta Records & Gilead Media), took the doom and metal world by surprise, garnering instant critical acclaim and bringing them to play prestigious festivals, stages, and even a cave, all around the world.
FÓRN’s members are spread across 4 different states and 2 different countries, U.S. & Germany.
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Headstone Brigade
Headstone Brigade is an accordion-based dark folk band from Seattle, WA creating music within the genres of neofolk, pagan folk, melodramatic pop and depressing polka. Originally created by Egan Budd as a vessel for voice and accordion but now performing live as a quartet with cellist Jeff King (also of Isenordal, Other), guitarist Mitchell Bell (also of Thunder Grey Pilgrim and Knifecream) and percussionist/vocalist Bree Sadira Rose (also of Other and formerly of Witchbottle).
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Hoaxed
Hoaxed is a female trio metal band out of Portland, OR, unveiling their captivating debut full-length, Two Shadows, on Relapse Records. Composed of vocalist/guitarist Kat Keo, drummer Kim Coffel, and bassist April Dimmick, Hoaxed’s superlative blend of styles — rock, gothic, Americana, gloom, and metal — paves the way for a singular expression that's entirely their own.
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Kings Rot
At the Gates of Adversarial Darkness is Kings Rot's second full-length and certainly a pinnacle of their sound so far. Expanding upon their debut record, The Shadow of the Accursed, released in 2021, Kings Rot's sophomore release carries an onslaught of fast-paced melodic black with a rich and warm sound rooted in classic black metal. Kings Rot is not a band that focuses on atmospheric flourishes, but rather emphasizes riffs and melody. Dark, fast, and straight to the point, At the Gates of Adversarial Darkness is an album for traditional black metal fans and disciples of the riff.
Lori Goldston
Lori Goldston plays written and spontaneous work on cello and works as a composer, teacher, curator, and prolific, widely varied collaborator. Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, her voice as a cellist is visceral, deeply textured, and original, investigating thresholds, instability, and connections between far-flung modes of thought.
She records and tours as a soloist and collaborates with bands, orchestras, composers, film makers, writers, and choreographers: Earth, Nirvana, the BBC Scottish Symphony, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Helms Alee, Mirah, Maya Dunietz, Jherek Bischoff, Tara Jane O'Neil, Jessika Kenney, Eyvind Kang, Ilan Volkov, David Byrne, O Paon, Terry Riley, Lonnie Holley, Stuart Dempster, Torben Ulrich, Shelley Hirsch, Ghedalia Tezartes, Senga Nengudi, Ellen Fullman, Lynn Shelton, Christian Rizzo, and many, many others.
She lives in Seattle and performs in venues large and small throughout the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Australia, and Europe, including Centre Pompidou, Museo Tamayo, Cineteca Nacional de Mexico, PS21, Tectonics Festivals, Le Guess Who?, Long Play Festival, TBA, Chicago Humanities Festival, Sydney Festival, and for Paris Fashion Week.
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Malfet
Malfet hails from the Central Coast of California and released the full-length album “Dolorous Gard” in October of 2023.
In the six years since this project’s inception, Malfet has made a profound impact on modern dungeon synth, pairing idyllic backdrops with tales of Arthurian-inspired heroism. Using a concise palette of harpsichords, percussion, flutes, lush strings, and delicate harps, the artist has invited listeners to experience a nostalgic dream along with him across four albums and many live performances. With the release of "Dolorous Gard," Malfet continues to refine his ethereal blend of rich melodies and evocative field recordings, creating a magical listening space where companions new, old, and departed can exist side by side, questing together in pursuit of the unknowable.
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Mania
Mania is Nate Meyers' solo black metal project based out of Portland, OR. This will be Mania's only performance in 2024.
Moosegator
Acoustic swampabilly black metal, as if the Everglades meshed with the cascades. Hailing from Florida and residing in the Pacific Northwest, the music is fast paced acoustic melodic black metal riffs with some Everglades twang.
Orator
Orator is based out of Seattle, WA. Extreme metal for fans of old and modern school alike. Influences include but not limited to: Cattle Decapitation, Behemoth, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Ulcerate, Suffocation, The Black Dahlia Murder, Nile, Soreption.
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Returning
Synthesizing currents of black metal, dark ambient, experimental theater, and butoh dance, Returning is a nexus of extreme art in reverence of the living Earth and its cycles. Initially conceived as a lifeline to sanity and purpose in the depths of the plague times, Returning has become a vehicle for the exploration and expression of themes both mythic and deeply personal. Music and movement are inseparable within the project, and the importance of the live experience, unmediated and untamed, is central to our ethos. Cascadian Midsummer will mark the debut of an entirely new offering from Returning.
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Soriah
Soriah is the stage persona for the internationally recognized artist Enrique Ugalde. Soriah’s craft is a blending of traditional Khöömei (Tuvan Throat Singing), tempered with Soriah’s own visceral force. Soriah’s use of Khöömei as a transportive medium is an offering to nature in her own tongue, that of organic sound whether it be wind, water, or the mimicry of animals.
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Tithe
TITHE (Canada) conjures a raw and haunting dark folk to explore the hidden, inmost essence, extracting inspiration from World Serpent's glory days and the lush largesse of early 2000s neofolk luminaries. As the solo project of S.P. Haché (Night Profound), Tithe has traversed the Abyss to transmute the bloody ashes of the past into a fresh vision of Spiritual gold. After unveiling the debut demo "Wildfires" in 2020 (featuring Amie Beckwith / Horsecult on backing vocals); a second demo "Anemoian" of reinterpretted traditional English and Irish folk songs in 2022; and powerful collaborative tracks with Osi and The Jupiter and Vintergrav in 2023, Tithe is poised to release its first full length LP of mystical madness "At the Mystery's End" in 2024. What began as a gentler reverie akin to Nature and Organisation or In Gowan Ring has evolved further to also embrace greater magnitude and bombast from projects like Rome, Espers, and even Dead Can Dance.
Usnea
Portland doombringers USNEA spawned in late 2011 from the cerebral minds of Justin Cory (guitar and vocals), Johnny Lovingood (guitar), Zeke Rogers (drums) and Joel Williams (bass, vocals). The quartet has proven to be a seismic-level force of destructive creativity with a massive yet meditative sound, masterfully crafted songwriting, and a clear yet non-derivative influence from doom legends such as Disembowelment, My Dying Bride, Neurosis, and YOB.
Vintergrav
In the realm of Neofolk, VINTERGRAV stands as a solo project, conjuring enchanting forest hymns that echo from the woodlands of northeastern Ohio. With inspiration drawn from folk tales, literature, and Norse mythology, D, the sole architect behind this musical odyssey, crafts ethereal acoustic compositions. The anticipation builds as VINTERGRAV prepares to unveil these mesmerizing solo creations at the upcoming Cascadian Midsummer Festival.
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Weald and Woe
‘Weald and Woe combines the majesty of the medieval era with the ferocity of classic black metal, evoking stories of the past to provide a contemporary soundtrack for those undertaking the quest to forge their own kingdom. Swords not optional.
Their sophomore album, For the Good of the Realm, released in September 2023 via Fiadh Productions, shifts the lens inward and asks ‘What are our lives worth? Will anyone remember us when we are gone?’ Since its release, the album has received much celebration from fans and critics alike, with features on No Clean Singing, Black Metal Daily, BangerTV, Bangers & Mosh, as well as numerous Album of the Year lists.
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West of Roan
West of Roan was born in the mountains of Western North Carolina, where friends Annie Schermer and Channing Showalter moved together to an off-grid cabin to dream and create stories, songs and puppet shows. They returned to their native Pacific Northwest in 2017, where they released their self-titled debut album. Their experience of life, music, place, and lineage in both regions informs their searching and soulful music.
Unaccompanied ballads, shape note hymns, Georgian traditional music, Irish, Scottish, and American fiddle tunes all feed the well from which West of Roan draws inspiration for their sound. Their carefully crafted, intuitive harmonies move from sweet to dissonant, following emotional arcs beneath the surface.
“The songs and stories here come from time spent in collective imagination, and from journeys to our inner worlds and under worlds. We seek to simultaneously discover and create a place of story, song, archetype and image: in this landscape we explore how our own yearnings, wounds and creations relate to and resonate with other people, and with larger social and cultural movements and patterns.”