'Virgin Tapestry'
2011
Review By Chris Hill
Virgin Tapetry is the Debut album release by Wolfcrusher, who played their first gig in December 2010.
The band comprises Gary Harkin on Vocals, Daniel Mucs and Arun Kamath on Guitars, Mitch (Chris Mitchell-Taylor) on Bass and Dan Mikietyn playing drums.
The album opener “Moving Mountains” sets the scene, launching into frantic drums, thrashy guitar riffs and guttural growling vocals which underline the band’s Death Metal foundation. Midway through this first song we hear the guitar solos and screaming vocals. “All Shall Pass” starts off in the same vein, moving into a lower to mid range vocally sung section before reverting to the growling vocals and “Lost at Sea” continues in a style comprising same elements.
For “Reborn” the tempo is slowed substantially and to what is almost a ballad by this band’s standards. A much quieter and more genteel affair, starting with its piano intro, leading into melodic vocals and guitars.
“Insuperabilis” is up next with catchy (slower tempo) guitar riffs but with the vocals back to growling and “Skeletoniser” and “No Chance”, the final songs of the album revert to the formula of the first three songs (interspersed growls and screams, thrashy guitar and drums).
Wolfcrusher themselves cite their objective to “Make it groovy, make it catchy and make it heavy!” and this represents an accurate description. Although it is shorter than an average album at only 35.60 minutes / 7 songs in length, hardly indicative of the near redundanct description “LP” (Long play), this album represents a decent debut offering.
