Watain has published a solemn statement from their Temple, announcing their impending end.
“Ladies and gentlemen, supporters, allies, and kindred spirits. This is a solemn transmission from the Temple of Watain.
Hereby we announce that in III years — on the day of our 30th anniversary — the eighth and final full-length album by Watain will be released. The album will mark the completion of a thirty-year magical Work, the final crossroads of Watain, after which the band will cease to exist. It will conclude three decades during which we have shared our sacred path through this strange world with you, our devoted listeners, steadily moving towards the alluring darkness of The End.
Over the next three years, we will speak and explain the reasons for this. But for now, we simply wish to say this: Have our songs and our art not always dealt with finitude and mortality, with DEATH and the afterlife? The time has come to claim our own conclusion and shape it, as we have shaped our stage and our songs, in the fire of will. Instead of being consumed by the jaws of time or broken by the wheel of circumstance, we choose to let Watain return, unconquered and undefeated, back into the primordial chaos that once gave it life.
And so we stand at the threshold of our final chapter, with III years of work ahead. III transitional years, passing through the borderlands between the living and the dead, during which new music will be written and disseminated, concerts will be held, and other events that will be revealed in due time will emanate, with the certainty of DEATH, from the Temple of Watain.
Receive this message not as a farewell, but as the first note of a sacrificial requiem, and also as an invitation to partake in shaping these final years into something unparalleled.
Praise the Devil-God, whose path is blessed, and upon whose altar we lay this our humble offering.
Towards DEATH and far beyond!”
