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Wolf Recalls Glory Days of Metal

dave shoemaker | Vandergrift, PA USA | 11/10/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If you long for the intensity of Killers/Number Of the Beast era
Iron Maiden then this Swedish quartet is for you. The music rips
with a neo-NWOBHM power and features a high-pitched but never wimpy vocal performance by Niklas Olsson. Check out "Night Stalker", "I Am the Devil" and a letter perfect cover of Mercyful Fate's "A Dangerous Meeting". Highly recommended."

Raise your fist for METAL!

Justin Gaines | Northern Virginia | 11/28/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Remember when you could say you listened to heavy metal and people knew exactly what you were talking about? These days it's all about categories - black metal, death metal, progressive metal, neoclassical progressive power metal with operatic vocals and blah blah blah. Forget classifications, Sweden's Wolf plays the kind of METAL that has you raising your fist and banging your head in about 2 seconds flat. This isn't tongue-in-cheek, 3 Inches of Blood style retro metal either. Wolf (and their American counterparts in Widow, Pharaoh, and Icarus Witch) worship at the altar of METAL. Trends be damned, Wolf delivers scorching old school HEAVY METAL that pays homage to the legends - Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. They're no novelty act either. Wolf's influences may be old school, but their sound is far from dated. The speed and energy Wolf delivers is sure to please even the most modern metal fans.



The band's 2002 album Black Wings is exactly what a second album should sound like. It builds on the foundations the band established on their self-titled debut, but is an improvement in just about every area from the music to the vocals to the songwriting and even the cover artwork. Black Wings is a killer METAL album from start to finish (which in this case is a cover of Mercyful Fate's "A Dangerous Meeting"), without a single weak song to be found. If I hadn't already heard their follow up Evil Star, I'd declare this the band's best work, which just goes to show you that Wolf is a band that keeps getting better.



If you like METAL and are not dead, you need to hear Wolf. Black Wings is as good a place to start as any. Need I say more?"