Origin: Uppsala, Sweden  
Genres: Black Metal
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Last update/review: November 4, 2023

Watain

As anyone who follows the scene knows, there is no shortage of quality black metal bands from Scandinavia. Watain do little to expand the boundaries of modern Swedish black metal, but on Sworn To The Dark they execute well, with an above-average production (particular for black metal) to boot. Several make the comparison to Dissection, and it's a valid comparison (vocalist Erik Danielsson apparently played live with them for a time), though this is more black metal than the early melodic death that Dissection helped pioneer back in the day. True, Watain aren't changing the face of black metal here, but they are a worthy band for black metallists to check out.

Recent album: Die In Fire - Live In Hell, released on November 3, 2023.

Current Members

Erik Danielsson

vocals/bass

Pelle Forsberg

guitars

Tore Stjerna

bass

Former Members/Guests

Farida Lemouchi (guest)

vocals (ex-The Devil's Blood)

Hampus Eriksson (guest)

guitars

Gottfrid Åhman (guest)

guitars (ex-In Solitude, Reveal!)

Alvaro Lillo (guest)

bass

Håkan Jonsson

drums

Emil Svensson (guest)

drums


Discography



The Essence Of Black Purity  EP
1999
  • Erik Danielsson
  • Pelle Forsberg
  • Håkan Jonsson


Rabid Death's Curse  
2000 Dragonheart
  • Erik Danielsson
  • Pelle Forsberg
  • Håkan Jonsson


The Ritual Macabre  LIVE
2001
  • Erik Danielsson
  • Pelle Forsberg
  • Tore Stjerna
  • Håkan Jonsson


Casus Luciferi  
2003 Dragonheart
  1. Devil's Blood
  2. Black Salvation
  3. Opus Dei (The Morbid Angel)
  4. Puzzles ov Flesh
  5. I Am the Earth
  6. The Golden Horns of Darash
  7. From the Pulpits of Abomination
  8. Casus Luciferi
  • Erik Danielsson
  • Pelle Forsberg
  • Håkan Jonsson


Sworn To The Dark  
2007 Season Of Mist
  1. Legions of the Black Light
  2. Satan's Hunger
  3. Withershins
  4. Storm of the Antichrist
  5. The Light that Burns the Sun
  6. Sworn to the Dark
  7. Underneath the Cenotaph
  8. The Serpent's Chalice
  9. Darkness and Death
  10. Dead but Dreaming
  11. Stellarvore
  • Erik Danielsson
  • Pelle Forsberg
  • Håkan Jonsson


Lawless Darkness  
2010 Season Of Mist
  1. Death's Cold Dark
  2. Malfeitor
  3. Reaping Death
  4. Four Thrones
  5. Wolves Curse
  6. Lawless Darkness
  7. Total Funeral
  8. Hymn to Qayin
  9. Kiss of Death
  10. Waters of Ain
2010 Readers' Album #57



Opus Diaboli  VIDEO
2012


The Wild Hunt  
2013 Century Media
  1. Night Vision
  2. De Profundis
  3. Black Flames March
  4. All that May Bleed
  5. The Child Must Die
  6. They Rode On
  7. Sleepless Evil
  8. Wild Hunt
  9. Outlaw
  10. Ignem Veni Mittere
  11. Holocaust Dawn
  • Erik Danielsson
  • Pelle Forsberg
  • Håkan Jonsson


Tonight We Raise Our Cups And Toast ...  LIVE
2015
  1. A Fine Day to Die
  2. The Return of Darkness and Evil
  3. Rite of Darkness
  4. Reaper
  5. Enter the Eternal Fire
  6. Sacrifice
  7. Born for Burning
  • Erik Danielsson
  • Pelle Forsberg
  • Håkan Jonsson


Stellar Descension Infernal In Budapest  LIVE
2015
  1. Intro
  2. Devil's Blood
  3. The Limb Crucifix
  4. Rabid Death's Curse
  5. My Fists Are Him
  6. Casus Luciferi
  7. I Am the Earth
  8. Fireborn (Malign cover)
  9. On Horns Impaled
  10. Black Salvation
  • Erik Danielsson
  • Pelle Forsberg
  • Håkan Jonsson


Trident Wolf Eclipse  
2018
  1. Nuclear Alchemy
  2. Sacred Damnation
  3. Teufelsreich
  4. Furor Diabolicus
  5. A Throne Below
  6. Ultra (Pandemoniac)
  7. Towards The Sanctuary
  8. The Fire Of Power
  • Erik Danielsson
  • Pelle Forsberg
  • Håkan Jonsson


The Agony And Ecstasy Of Watain  
2022 Nuclear Blast
  1. Ecstasies in Night Infinite
  2. The Howling
  3. Serimosa
  4. Black Cunt
  5. Leper's Grace
  6. Not Sun Nor Man Nor God
  7. Before the Cataclysm
  8. We Remain
  9. Funeral Winter
  10. Septentrion
  • Erik Danielsson
  • Farida Lemouchi
  • Pelle Forsberg
  • Hampus Eriksson
  • Gottfrid Åhman
  • Alvaro Lillo
  • Emil Svensson


Die In Fire - Live In Hell  LIVE
2023 Nuclear Blast
  1. Ecstasies in Night Infinite
  2. Black Salvation
  3. The Howling
  4. Black Flames March
  5. Reaping Death
  6. Devil's Blood
  7. Serimosa
  8. Not Sun nor Man nor God
  9. Before the Cataclysm
  10. The Return of Darkness and Evil (Bathory cover)
  11. Nuclear Alchemy
  12. Malfeitor



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