Watain

Lawless Darkness (Season of Mist)

Swedish black magic threesome Erik Danielsson, Pelle Forsberg, and Håkan Jonsson kill the moonlight and its entire family on fourth full-length Lawless Darkness. Storm-bringer “Death’s Cold Dark” and Celtic Frost’s V-8 trample as detailed by guitarist Forsberg’s nose cone kills on screaming eagle “Malfeitor,” with its elegiac fade into the aggro swarm of succeeding flayer “Reaping Death,” build to a royal shitstorm (“Four Thrones”), apocalyptic plagues (“Total Funeral”), and black metal bulimia (“Kiss of Death”).

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This article appears in June 18 • 2010.

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San Francisco native Raoul Hernandez crossed the border into Texas on July 2, 1992, and began writing about music for the Chronicle that fall, debuting with an album review of Keith Richards’ Main Offender. By virtue of local show previews – first “Recommendeds,” now calendar picks – his writing’s appeared in almost every issue since 1993.