Release Date: October 23, 2026

Heretics of the Black Metal genre and the Kings of USBM, WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM have returned with sharpened teeth. Their new album “Estuary” carries the hallmark of their unyielding dedication to the physical craft and analog production techniques, executed with zero cut corners. After more than twenty years, the pioneers of Cascadian Black Metal have neither withered, rested, nor resorted to recycling past glories. They continue to rise with unparalleled strength, and “Estuary” is their most ferocious and genre-bending record to date.
WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM embody nature as active participants of the current, bypassing the confines of a musical landscape which trends towards homogenization. Massive percussion and seething gothic guitars wipe the listener’s psyche clear of all stagnation, transforming it into a conduit for evolution and renewal. Rich with alchemical and archetypal imagery, the record operates like eagles and wolves descending upon desolation and entropy, activating the dormant domain with magic and the lethal essence of virility. In the world of “Estuary” clans surround structures of a bygone industrial Aeon without knowing their original purpose. By assigning them a new meaning, new societies aggregate. “Estuary” explores the tension and networking between stillness and noise, animal and machine, elementals and electricity, and the awakening sophistication implicit in our mysterious origins. 
Nathan Weaver (lead vocals, guitar) comments: “Our new album, ‘Estuary’, takes place 1000 years in the future, after the death of civilization. I've always felt such calm at the idea of humanity vanishing from the world, and nature reclaiming everything. I dream of being alone in this setting and experiencing total calm and peace. This has been a recurring theme in all of Wolves’ music but for ‘Estuary’, it is at the forefront.”
The bulk of the album was produced and recorded at the band’s own Owl Lodge studio in Olympia, Washington, with drums tracked by Nicholas Wilbur at The Unknown (a converted former church in Anacortes, Washington). 
Wolves in the Throne Room will be opening portals performing Estuary on the "Knights of Tiamat Tour" across the UK and Europe this winter, followed by the USA and internationally in 2027.

1.    Estuary    00:07:07
2.    Knights of Tiamat    00:08:37
3.    Foretold in Reflections    00:09:54
4.    The Orca Cliffs    00:07:53
5.    Ghosts Among the Obelisks    00:08:41
6.    Wretched Spirits, Land of the Light    00:06:14