Album Review: Of Wolves - Balance (2020)
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Of Wolves - Balance
Release Date: 04 July, 2020
Label: Trepanation Recordings
Format: CD / Tape / Digital
Length: 38:29
Genre: Post Hardcore / Sludge
Origin: Chicago (Illinois), USA
Music is therapy. It is a release from stress and negativity. It also is the language by which feelings and emotions can be expressed when words do not come up to it. One of those musical productions that conveys riddance of negativity is Of Wolves' album "Balance". This review should have been published thsi summer but it somehow got lost in the dust of 2020. My apologies.
"Balance" is dense with emotions and moods. Of Wolves play powerful Post Hardcore with rough breaks and a heavy Sludge impact. Brutal and distorted riffs grind on the beats of a chequered and intense drumset. Versatile structures interchange between massive breakdowns, forceful speed attacks and disharmonically melodic bridges. Each songs urges your eardrums to expect the unexpected. And on top there the mostly screamed vocals with their accusing and yet deliberating sound.
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Of Wolves combine the edgy and raw sound of (Post) Hardcore with the sonorous and oozy atmosphere of Sludge. Their various soundscapes reach from Ten Ton Slug over "Roots"-era Sepultura to Converge. It is a colourful picture of darkness they paint with their music. The blows they serve are at the same time sharp like razors and dull-edged like a wooden hammer. And finally, the album contains the probably best cover version of The Misfits' 'Die, die (My Darling)' ever.
"Balance" is a great salutogenetic album for every situation you need some stress relief. And for fans of Hardcore Punk, the song 'Killing Spree' will blow your minds. Imagine a moshpit to that one!
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