Between hurling animal blood and carcasses at their audience and worshipping
Satan, Swedish black metal act Watain have been raging away to a sound seemingly
born out of the apocalypse since first forming as teenagers in 1998. Frontman
Erik Danielsson's love of heavy rock thunder began when he went to his first
Metallica gig when he was ten-years-old and by 16 he had formed Watain in his
small home town of Uppala, north of Stockholm, with drummer Hakan Jonsson and
guitarist Pelle Forsberg.
Named after a song by American thrashers Von, they were full of youthful angst
and ene...