DUNGEON WOLF – Slavery or Steel
Independent
I think that we have
to make some points about the social background of heavy metal music in order
to understand what DUNGEON WOLF are doing here with their debut album. You see
metal music was born in the town of Birmingham, United Kingdom. This was a town
that in 20th century had many industries and of course it was a town
full of workers. It is from that working class that metal started and it was
the music which helped the youth back then to express their objection to the
oppression they felt or even provoke the structures of the preservative
society. Also it worked as a way to escape from reality. I think all these are elements
that I personally miss from the heavy metal music which was actually turned
into heavy metal music industry and cares mostly about the sales and always
tries to be politically correct in order to do so. Thank god, however, the
underground has always been the core that kept this music alive even in the
most difficult times. DUNGEON WOLF as their name suggests are a child of this
underground heavy metal movement.
DUNGEON WOLF are no
other than the successor of the band NORSELAW that if you check my webzine on a
regular basis already know play traditional heavy metal with a lot of epic
elements in their own style. The band comes from the U.S.A. and this is a
country that gave birth to many unique bands like CIRITH UNGOL and MANILLA
ROAD. Bands that took the traditional metal sound and transformed it into their
personal style. And that’s exactly what DUNGEON WOLF do; they use their metal
and 70’s hard rock influences and create an album that is unique and true to
the core. Actually this doesn’t seem strange to me because the band is the
continuation of NORSELAW though here the compositions are more mature and the
exaggerations on displaying guitar skills more functional to the structure of
the songs. Apart from the above mentioned bands I think that I can only compare
DUNGEON WOLF with such bands like CAULDRON BORN, DAWNBRINGER and SKULLVIEW.
All in all releases
like this one are the answer to those who believe that true metal has nothing
new to offer to its audience. Yes it still does and DUNGEON WOLF are here to
prove it.
Nick “Verkaim” Parastatidis
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