WOLFMANGLER - three-bass weirdness - album and mp3s

[pklima]

I've occasionally mentioned something about playing in a band with a DB and two BGs. Well, I've finally decided to post some details. After a few CD-R releases and a split CD we will finally have a full-length album out. Dwelling In A Dead Raven For The Glory Of Crucified Wolves or WOLFMANGLER's first proper full-length CD will be released under the full moon on the 11th by Aurora Borealis (http://www.aurora-b.com). In addition to the DB and two BGs this album also includes bass drum, bassoon, trombone, violin and flute. The sources of the lyrics range the ancient Greek poet Tyrtaeus to H.P. Lovecraft.



We'll also have new shirts soon, we just need to figure out whether to make them camouflage or black. A limited vinyl version with a different tracklisting will follow.

Two tracks from this album are available in mp3 form at http://wolves.tamu.edu. Feel free to bitch about how badly the music sucks.

[Demon]

Def checking it out, especially cos HP lovecraft kicks ass.

[pklima]

Thanks for listening, glad you like our stuff. Yeah, I'm the one with the Hembry doubleneck but I play DB on the WOLFMANGLER recordings. I follow my whims in these bands, the more ridiculous the better, but I also play perfectly normal music outside of them.

As for those limited releases, those three all out of print and pretty much impossible to find. Labels just made stuff in the quantities that would sell at the time and we've gotten better-known since then and moved to bigger labels. Some of it will be available again, though. We're going to reissue Lesbian Corpse Wolves as bonus tracks on the upcoming Selenoclast Wolves CD but that's going to have more conventional packaging. Dwelling In A Winter Goat Towards Northern Wolves may also be reissued but the label that wants to do it is a little short on money after its owner lost a lot of cash at the Naked Man Festival in Japan.

[Matt Till]

I need to be near some speakers, because I need to hear this.

[superbassman2000]

i must have this cd

once i get a paycheck from my job i will buy a copy...in the meantime, where do i send the money?

[Josh Ryan]

I have to agree with the others, unique and very cool. good work.

[pklima]

Thanks, y'all. I'll be getting some copies in about a week, you can also get them from Aurora Borealis. It'll also be carried by various metal and avant-garde distros, the same ones that sell our split with MOSS plus a few others.

Here's a review that Plan B magazine wrote, quite funny:

"Wolfmangler is another project from the Polish Moustache otherwise known as D Smolken, also of Garlic Yarg and Dead Raven Choir. The sludgefest follows the chamber doom quartet lineage of their previous releases, the bass/bass/double bass here being augmented by what sounds like a flute and maybe a French horn. And a big drum. The drum and flute give songs like "King Guthrum" an almost Korean court music feel, but the French horn pulls the soupy bass throb closer to Noggin The Nog territory. There's also a kind of Ray Harryhausen feel, something reminescent of the awakening of a plasticine dragon or the approach of clunkily animated skeletons holding swords, maybe one skelly has one of those spiky ball and chain thingies. If you could sonically render the effect of heavy rags being hypnotically stirred into a cauldron of molten pitch with a severed antler this is the sound you would get. All the while, Smolken hisses elegies, spits dirges and generally growls one off, rolling his R's like a proper movie baddy. Totally book."

[superbassman2000]

totally book?

what does that mean?

[Matt Till]

This is awesome

[pklima]

A small update... we now have new band shirts available. The vinyl version (with gatefold, posters and a different track listing) should arrive in August. We also got a very nice review from Julian Cope (pagan scholar and ex-pop-star) here: http://www.headheritage.co.uk/addressdrudion/86

No no no, what you really gots to hear is the new WOLFMANGLER, me dears. Released on the consistently great Aurora Borealis label, this stunningly-titled album DWELLING IN A DEAD RAVEN FOR THE GLORY OF CRUCIFIED WOLVES is as original as our blessed Teeth Of Lions Rule The Divine, Waldteufel or Khanate, and is truly the sound of the re-heathenised north. Wolfmangler, I salute ye. Imagine if THE WICKER MAN had not been an absolute pile of Christian-informed what-your-auntie-thinks-pagans-do sub-sub-Hammer Horror, and had, instead, been visionary enough to allow us all to have glimpsed an imagined lifestyle of heathens on some remote northern isle. Well, Wolfmangler is that soundtrack. If a doom heavy metal band played the music of the Padstow Obby 'Oss, we'd be somewhere close. If Martin Walkier of Sabbat made an album with a colliery brass band, we'd be somewhere close. With their bassoon, trombone and drums at the forefront, Wolfmangler's heady ritual drawl is the best I've heard since the aforementioned Teeth of Lions, Waldteufel and Khanate. Genius or watt.

The new shirts look like this:



And the old ones are still available:



I should have my copies the CDs and new shirts in a week.

[Matt Till]

Those shirts are br00tal

Price?

[superbassman2000]

thanks for bumping this Peter...i finally get paid today so i can put in an order

[pklima]

You can buy'em here: http://www.aurora-b.com

Apparently, though, making shirts in the UK makes them expensive!

[dharma]

Love the Wolfmangler.

"Dirge for a Viking ..."

Damn. Where do you guys come up with this stuff?!

[pklima]

Some updates...

Our album Dwelling In A Dead Raven For The Glory Of Crucified Wolves along with the rest of the Aurora Borealis catalogue is now distributed by Southern Records in Europe and US distribution will follow early next year. That means it'll be a lot easier to get from your local independent store or various metal distros. A few copies have supposedly even shown up in HMV stores.

By the end of the year we hope to get the vinyl version with a different track listing than the CD, gatefold cover and posters.

We'll have a new 7" called Hungry Hungry Wolves on the Short Forest label soon. It's gone to the manufacturer so release is imminent. http://www.shortforest.com

We also now have a Myspace page with two tracks we haven't had online before. It's at http://www.myspace.com/wmangler

[pklima]

Thanks. Wider distribution also means more reviews in the press which are always fun. This band turns music journalists into extremely bad poets. Some samples:

Originally Posted by Left Hand Path

Early morning brings the star winds and shared ritual; the bones of elk and boar ground down to talc and worn as a tunic. A grey white dress like bird**** hardened in the steady Winter sun.

Originally Posted by Surreal Documents

music made for smelling rather than for hearing, for groping one's way through a dead raven as large as a concert hall, a morbid maze for the glory of crucified wolves, fascinans ad tremendum...

Originally Posted by Aquarius Records

maybe like holding a stylus in one hand, and a scratched up 45 of Fleetwood Mac's tusk in the other, and trying to manually play the record by dragging the needle along each groove

Originally Posted by Plan B Magazine

If you could sonically render the effect of heavy rags being hypnotically stirred into a cauldron of molten pitch with a severed antler this is the sound you would get

Originally Posted by Vice

This is what an embittered Moondog might score from his cobwebbed deathbed somewhere in a ruinous Baltic alternaverse

Originally Posted by Metal Hammer

The ultra real sound of a group of early farmers milling about in the ******* down rain on a Scottish Isle somewhere pleading skyward for next year's crops

Originally Posted by Julian Cope writing for the Guardian

compost with a grudge

Maybe I should reactivate this band just so I can make a song with lyrics consisting entirely from review quotes... the serpent (or wolf, perhaps?) eating his own tail.

[Matt Till]

Dude, I agree completely. I read through Wire magazine, notorious for it's snootiness in the music reviews, bad poetry at it's best. It's an attempt to be "artsy"

[MaskedJackal]

Peter, I've had an interest in Wolfmangler since I saw your sweet doubleneck. As I am a starving college student...do you accept well-concealed cash, and if so can you PM me the appropriate address? Thanks!

[pklima]

I'd accept cash if I had anything for sale. I've already sold all the copies of the CD I got, though. And most US distros seem sold out as well.

God Is Myth might have some copies - their online CD catalog currently only goes up to the letter "L" and I know I sold them ten copies.

It should be much, much easier to find in a few months once Southern starts distributing it in the US as well.

[MaskedJackal]

Southern....Lord?

Duuude.