Greetings all

Our West Coast comrades and Black Metal Legends LUDICRA are in a serious bind (see the statement below for the full story.) We ask for anyone who is able and willing to please donate funds to help alleviate the financial stress of their situation.

Being one of the first and most innovative US Black Metal bands, Ludicra have unquestionably been a major influence and source of inspiration for Wolves in the Throne Room and US Black Metal as a genre. They were key in helping organize WITTR's first ever tours of the West Coast and were kind enough to let us borrow their equipment to record our first album Diadem of 12 Stars in San Francisco in 2005. It is safe to say that if it wasn't for Ludicra, Wolves in the Throne Room might not exist.

For something like this to happen at the beginning of their first full US tour ever is truly fucked. Please show your support and your disdain for the American “Health Care System” by donating funds to help cover the insane Hospital bills that are currently mounting. We sincerely hope that Ludicra will be able to continue their tour but they will need your help and support to do so.

For now we will be using our paypal account to accept donations. Our paypal email address is:

wittr_​merchandise@​hotmail.​com

Even If all you can spare is $10, please do so anyway. We hate to sound like an infomercial but we also want to offer anyone who donates more then $300 all three of our full length albums on CD as well as the Malevolent grain EP. If you are able to donate that amount please include your mailing address in the paypal form.

Sincerely
Wolves in the Throne Room

The backstory:

After more than a decade of being USBM’s best kept secret, Ludicra finally got a dream-offer to play main support to Norwegian legends Mayhem. Then, approximately sixty days prior to the tour launch, Mayhem pulled the plug.

Against all odds, Ludicra was able to book a full US tour—31 shows with no days off—and salvage their ability to promote a critically acclaimed new album The Tenant (currently “Album of the Month” in Terrorizer Magazine).

A week before the tour commenced, Ludicra guitarist John Cobbett felt a pain in his abdomen, and visited the hospital in San Francisco. He had self-diagnosed appendicitis, but the hospital staff dismissed his concerns and sent him home, unaided. That night, John played on stage in support of Pentagram while his appendix continued to rupture. Over the next week, a large abscess grew around his failing appendix, yet John worked his job, and performed the first gig of tour in Portland, OR.

On day two of the tour, John was struck down by an incapacitating pain. Though John’s home is San Francisco, he’s currently laid up in a hospital in Olympia, WA—facing uninsured surgeries while his band-mates are soldiering on, and will soon resume performing and selling merchandise in order to recoup a fraction of the money lost by show cancellations, and imminent, astronomical medical bills.

It is sincerely hoped that John will rehabilitate quickly enough to fulfill most of his tour obligations. Meanwhile, time and precious funds are slipping away…