clinical? Keeping that fine balance of catchy guitars, gut wrenching vocals, occasional machine gun like drum beats and a smattering of samples, then wrapped up and presented to you with all the subtlety of a shotgun blast to the face. Totalling less than 15 minutes the album kind of reminds me of Agoraphobic Nosebleed's side of The Poacher Diaries but slightly less. A safer bet would be to expect a series of sonic bursts consisting of both classic rock and post punk inspired riffage all accompanied with a health dose of angered roaring and Ant's awesome ferocious drumming. So with the quality of the final production pretty much a sure thing, what exactly can you expect from War Wolf? Well, if you're waiting for Dopefight 2.0 then, I'm sorry to burst your bubble. Not a house hold name I grant you, and certainly a hell of a way to travel but Nick's catalog of work at the mixing desk with the likes of Architects, Throats, Johnny Truant and of course Dopefight really speaks for itself. Bit of an unprecedented move I know, but not without reason, as good friend and Yoda like recording master Nick Kinnish moved there a few years back. But instead of just cranking out the typical rushed demo down at the local studio, the trio pissed off to Canada. Little time past between the spawning of the band and heading into the studio. But fortunately for us Paul, Ant and fellow buddy Oli already had their contingency plan in motion, and so War Wolf was born. I for one was pretty gutted when earlier in the year Ant dropped me a line to tell me the mighty Dopefight were breaking up. The album is jam-packed with headbangin grooves and they managed to throw a cleanīallad in there just to get a cherry on top of this great album. The guitarist has a tone that I've heard before but never hear someone use it for an entire song: it's a combination of fuzz and a harmonizer which is an effect that pretty much clones the guitar signal into another signal in a different pitch. The vocalist's style makes me think of some kind of combination of a younger more garage rocky Lemmy ![]() All the songs in the album have a really nice combination of punk energy with garage band scales and riffs. they kick all kinds ofĪss with their raw guitar tones, kickin' drums, and gritty vocals. I could not come up with a more accurate description. Stage-eating band, and after hearing their music and seeing their live videos, When this trio contacted us, they described themselves as a We were contacted by Bottlecap, our latest addition to the list of awesome
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