Review: Werewolves ‘Die For Us’
Upon hearing the short opening monologue on the title track Die For Us, I did let out a bit of an evil laugh and sinister smile when the words ‘or you can stay for the extreme violence that is coming your way’ were spoken before the barrage of noise cascades through the speaker. Violence is coming, and this is the type of violence that people will enjoy profusely.
The fact that Werewolves have ended their first track with stinging criticism from some Aussie music/radio journalist, who spouts ‘that is a load of shit’ and ‘unlistenable crap as far as I’m concerned’ makes me want to like the trio even more, especially as they formed in 2019 with the express purpose of releasing ten albums in ten years.
Die For Us marks their halfway point, and as death metal goes, it’s quite a joyous listen full of blast beats from drummer David Haley, incoherent ranting from bassist and vocalist Sam Bean and sick riffs from guitarist Matt Wilcock. With songs like Beaten Back To Life which castigates everyone with the temerity to have started listening to metal after 1992, and Fuck You Got Mine which is a hymn to the joys of being a slumlord, it has a little something for everyone to enjoy.
dripping in venom with a dash of demonic intent…
There are nine songs in total, with some big choruses, brilliant samples and a few hints at black metal, but as the band say themselves, ‘it’s still going to sound like a school bus getting fed into a metal shredder’. My Hate Is Strong is pure visceral evil and features vocal contributions from Australian National treasure ROK from Sadistik Exekution and that’s before The Company Of Wolves comes along with its almighty riff that is just dripping in venom with a dash of demonic intent, aiming to rip out all your internal organs.
And all this happens before probably the best track of the album, Spittle-Flecked Rant which flirts with d-beats and hardcore while imploring the world to be even worse and has a sample at the end which made me spit my drink out as I listened to it. All Deserve To Be Slaves continues the visceral attack before we are bombarded by a wave of blackened darkness piss with Under A Urinal Moon.
They end their fifth album in five years with another blistering track, Stay Down which wraps up an album that I’ve thoroughly enjoyed listening to, as amongst the evil and barbaric noise, you can feel the humour that the trio have put into the record. Right then, bring on number six please.
Label: Independent
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Scribed by: Matthew Williams
