Watain are a Swedish black metal band from Uppsala, formed in 1998. The band's name is taken from a recording by the American black metal group Von. To date they have released five full-length albums, as well as three live albums and a number of demos and EPs. Their most recent album The Wild Hunt was released in 2013 on Century Media and sold around 2,700 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The band have become infamous for their Theistic Satanist views because of their live shows which involve candles, pyrotechnics, animal carcasses. An exclusive 2014 show in Brooklyn in which they doused audience members in animal blood, and later on with all shows in the U.S, they continued to catch public media attention.