Swedish Heavy Metal revivalists WOLF should need no introduction with their classic and catchy blend of totally 80s ripping Metal mania. They have just unleashed their eighth album via Century Media Records.
Soaring guitar melodies and snare hits bring the 80s Heavy Metal glory in with built up drums pounding and dancing, upbeat guitars. Powerful vocals and rhythmic grooves soon join in to make a punitively catchy display of pure Heavy Metal brilliance. Wolf are back and on top form with a record that immediately gets under your skin with its utterly ecstatic blend of magnificent riffs, drums and superbly contagious hooks both vocally and instrumentally. It is definitely important with this “New Wave Of Traditional Heavy Metal” sound being so popular, not that Wolf are a new band to do it, to make sure your album hits hard from the onset and stands out from the rest. Thankfully Wolf achieve this and have done for years.
With such a killer amount of face melting solos and fun riffs, the guitarists leave big boots to fill, thankfully the drums deliver an exciting blend of fills and beats that keep things fresh and interesting, all making a perfect backup force to the maniacally howled vocals giving the true classic Heavy Metal attack with audacious proficiency and getting everyone on board from the onset. There is a bit more sleaze than on previous Wolf record which really adds something monstrously evil yet still definitively approachable to their sound, which has definitely grown over the years to give Wolf the huge choruses of a band like Iron Maiden while keeping the ferocious attack in the verses more akin to Judas Priest, with some Accept definitely creeping into the sound.
Gloriously upbeat but without feeling too cheesy or weak, this new record is a slab of delightfully fantastic Heavy Metal, unaltered and pure. Totally catchy and fun while not lacking in pounding, headbanger-friendly bite that rips through a crushing and fantastic set of twelve new ragers. It can be risky to have so many tracks and a longer length, with the chance of filler material becoming too prevalent but Wolf waste no time at all, concocting another mighty tome of 80s worshipping excellence. -8.5/10
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