Wolves in the Throne Room / CTM

I went to see Wolves in the Throne Room yesterday. As you could expect from a show that was part of Club Transmediale, the audience was very mixed, which I liked. A flock of metalheads was rocking out in front of the stage, among the more artsy types, the hipsters, the tech nerds, which had a good time too.
The bands that opened - well there was this norwegian ambient/drone/soundscape project which played only very short. It was quite enjoyable. Much more enjoyable than the band that played before them (no idea what their name was) - it was pretty pretentious, "avantgarde" noise with no song structures (which I really have no problem with at all, there are a lot of artists I love that do stuff like that, but much more original and interesting) and inconsequential vocals.
Another band that played after WITTR: Shit & Shine, which I had to endure two years ago when they opened for SunnO))) at Volksbühne - back then they were ridiculous, they had like 8 drummers, made a lot of noise, but were very, very boring and predictable. But apparently they are considered to be some kind of super group, well, I couldn't care less about them - so we left early. WITTR was easily the highlight of the evening, really intense and harsh, I loved it.