WAYFARER – Black Metal Of The American West (Introduction Video)

Cool to see these guys get more exposure. A Romance With Violence is just phenomenal! They have a sound all their own. It is my favorite album of 2020.

This band fucking rules.

You are so spot on with what you’ve said! The American Western film is an extension of music, its folk art, and so important. If someone from abroad can’t wrap their head around the idea of American Exceptionalism just show them a western film, or the old west tv shows! It will certainly start to paint that image when coupled with the music. I always played in, for lack of better term, doom bands. But we all come from a country, folksy, rural background. Grew up on Old Time, Bluegrass, Southern Rock, and lots of Hank Williams Sr. and honky tonk music, Jimmie Rodgers, the Carter Family, and growing up in Pentecostal/Evangelical church’s. You take all that and you add in modern influences like 16 horsepower, Wovenhand, Doc Boggs(I know he’s from way back but had to be mentioned), heavier bands like Across Tundras, Acid Country bands like Crypt Trip, and Youngblood Supercult. Classics like Sons of the Pioneer! Black and Transcendental bands like Wolves In The Throne Room, Darkthrone, Burzum, Bathory, Celtic Frost. Last but not least good ol American hardrock like Foghound, Dixie Witch, Packwoods Payback, eyehategod, Acid King, Sleep, Blackberry Smoke, Clutch, Pearls and Brass, Serpent Throne, Reverend Horton Heat, TASTE, Blue Cheer, Leafhound, and last but not least NOT SLIPKNOT!!! I’ve always had trouble explaining when people ask, I can kinda point the. To some influential bands in the genre, but y’all have completely explained so well! My band has always had faster blackened doom parts but certainly not a black metal band yet I hear so many similarities in our bands and it has to be that common thread of Southern and Western bleak, hardworking life is all we know type culture shining through! Side note we draw a huge influence from Appalachia! Which was the original frontier and has the same ethos!!! For la k of better term I have a “new favorite band” I’m gonna be listening a lot over the coming weeks and months to glean your use of notes and words put into your compositions!! Can’t wait to start my journey!!! Many thanks and Godspeed!!!!

i like the idea, gonna check em out

Dope video

"A Romance With Violence" is one of my all time favorite records

I've never been into black metal, and perhaps Wayfarer isn't 100% black metal (who cares about genre labels anyway?), but A Romance With Violence had me hooked from the first playthrough. It's so cinematic and I'm not even close to growing tired of listening to it.

Can't wait

Will there be a new album soon? I hope that's why this video was put out :')

So unique that they sounds like every new black metal band.