Wold

Wold

Postsocial

Profound Lore

One of the most bizarre and polarizing musical entities in extreme music returns with their fifth and most likely final full-length album, completing the circle they started many years ago from the barren wastelands of Saskatchewan, Canada.  The five elongated tracks on Postsocial comprise some of the most intriguing work ever from blackened noise terrorists Wold. Residing on the alien fringes of the harsh black metal, noise and experimental realms, the band’s music is an intimidating yet transcendental barrage of unforgiving white noise steeped in occult and esoteric dogma. Postsocial is the ultimate testament to the Wold aesthetic, which has garnered accolades from the likes of Matthew Barney, Björk, Pitchfork and The Wire.

Wold

Freermasonry

Profound Lore

Notorious and extreme Canadian band Wold, hailing from the vast, desolate prairies of the frozen northern wastelands, returns with their most powerful offering to date. Entitled Freermasonry, the new album is a raging blizzard of darkness and death whose harsh sounds of psychotic hypnosis are a haunting alien presence slowly waiting to reveal its true nature. The group’s deepest and most thought-provoking work yet, Freermasonry is an intriguing and in-depth look into Wold dictator Fortress Crookedjaw’s observations on religion, the occult and the Servant of the Light. Always polarizing, never for the weak of heart or mind, Wold is the most unique and bizarre extreme music enigma of our time.

Wold

Badb

Crucial Blast

Originally released on cassette in 2004 in a limited edition of 100 copies, Badb is one of the earliest releases from the Saskatchewan-based black metal / noise duo Wold. The nine tracks around the mythology of the war goddess—the specter of doom that lurks at the edge of the battlefield.  Beginning at the heart of a roiling black blizzard, Badb proceeds through a charred nightmare soundscape of icy, corroded black metal riffs, fractured blasting, melancholic melodies blurred and smeared into malevolent new shapes, and scathing witch-screams ripping through the blackness, all drowned in Merzbow-ian levels of feedback and distortion abuse. Available on CD for the first time ever, this early example of Wold’s psychotropic black metal / noise terror comes with all-new artwork from Pippi Zornoza.

Wold

Working Together For Our Privacy

Profound Lore

Canada's Wold is among the most bizarre and extreme entities to have emerged from the black metal scene in recent years. Hailing from the vast, barren plains of Saskatchewan, they have three albums under their belt already--intense, punishing rituals comprised of layered frequencies and abstract noise that listeners deem either pure genius or unbearable madness. The band's latest opus, Working Together for Our Privacy, is a new kind of Wold album. At only three extended tracks, it is their first completely instrumental release--looping noise fragments pieced together into a flurry of blizzard-like sonic fury. This truly unique and transcendent exercise in pure audial hypnosis transports one to strange and otherworldly destinations.

Wold

Stratification

Profound Lore

Not only is Wold among Canada's most notorious, provocative, and recognized black metal outfits, they are one of the most unique, surreal, and bizarre extreme music bands in the underground today.   By melding the primitive and raw aspects of black metal and noise, Wold have established quite a reputation. Treading wholly in their own realm, untouched by others, the band creates a sound unlike anything else; they have provoked and confused, while at the same time critics hail them as one of the most important acts in black metal.   Through waves of distorted noise, layers of buzzsaw guitar fuzz, hypnotic trance loops, and harsh screaming, Stratification takes Wold's brand of philosophical black metal terror to a new level that penetrates ever deeper within the psyche of the North American black metal scene. Not for the weak at heart, the album depicts the wrath of the violent, desolate winters that plague the prairie lands where the band dwells--a work of victorious, elite black metal art.