Wolf - DEVIL SEED | Metalzone

Wolf - DEVIL SEED

If not like WOLF’s Devil Seed then how should heavy metal sound like in 2014? Wolf is a solid heavy metal band that’s been around since 1995 composing heavy metal as they want to listen to it themselves as the band’s mainman Niklas Stalvind has recently stated in the interview we run on him at the event of their latest release. Back when we did the interview I hadn’t listened to the album yet but the Shark Attack that had invaded YouTube a few days earlier. I must admit I like WOLF’s music since the first time I ever listened to it. I like the fact they combine power, guts, melody, creativity and fresh ideas. They manage to deliver music which is truly original without embedding elements alien to metal music. The guitar riffs are robust, the production is like stainless steel yet they have melody lines carving pathways into emotion which is a very difficult task and yet they never fail to reach their goal.

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So, let’s talk about the Devil Seed, which is an album that has only one thing in common with their previous releases, it is unique. It has all the features that make it a WOLF album but no song reminds you of a song they’ve written in the past and that my dear friends is pure talent. The ideas are crawling in every verse, in every vocal line and in every melody. Atmosphere that can be either exhilarating (Overture in C Shark, Shark Attack) gloomy (I am pain, Back From the grave- It’s alive!), creepy and murderous (Skeleton Woman, you can actually feel you’ re in the murderesses’ mind), frustrating or so damn headbanging (My Demon, Killing Floor). Devil Seed needs your full attention once you start listening as it holds many secrets to tell… Let me give you a picture… Listen to The Dark Passenger, listen to how the riff, the vocal line, the establishment of the melody is building up an almost arabesque atmosphere that by the end of the song you feel dry sand is scorching on the walls of an abandoned castle somewhere in the desert… Thirsty huh? Well that’s WOLF’s Devil Seed. Feeling fertile to plant a Devil Seed amongst your cd or vinyl collection? I most certainly do.

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