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Wolves in the Throne Room have announced their new studio album, Estuary, set for release on October 23 via Relapse Records in North America (pre-order).
Alongside the announcement, the band have released the album’s first single, “Ghosts Among the Obelisks,” accompanied by a new music video.
Speaking about the concept behind Estuary, vocalist/guitarist Nathan Weaver said: “Our new LP ‘Estuary’ is set 1000 years in the future after the end of civilization. Survivors of a cataclysm wander the haunted ruins. It is a world of mutant creatures and open portals. Post-apocalyptic religion takes form in a wild landscape.”
According to Weaver, the album imagines estuaries as places of power within its post-apocalyptic setting, where wilderness has overtaken civilization and supernatural forces have become part of the physical world.
“If wilderness overcame the cities in the future, the estuaries would be realms of power and magic,” Weaver explained. “Within the album’s world-building, the estuaries are key nexus points where magic has taken on physical form. Spirits good and evil walk the earth.”
The newly released “Ghosts Among the Obelisks” introduces that world through the story of a warrior traveling from the lowlands of the old world toward a mountain sanctuary, encountering forgotten ruins and ancient spirits along the way.
Watch the music video for “Ghosts Among the Obelisks” below.
Estuary was produced by Wolves in the Throne Room and features touring bassist Galen Baudhuin. Most of the album was recorded at the band’s Owl Lodge studio in Olympia, WA, while drums were tracked by Nicholas Wilbur at The Unknown in Anacortes, WA.
Estuary tracklisting:
01. Estuary
02. Knights of Tiamat
03. Foretold in Reflections
04. The Orca Cliffs
05. Ghosts Among the Obelisks
06. Wretched Spirits, Land of Light
Wolves in the Throne Room are also scheduled to perform at Fire In The Mountains at The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO, taking place January 15-17, 2027.
