WOLFMANGLER - The Gates Of Wolves
WOLFMANGLER EP released by Digitalis Industries on a 3" CD-R as part of their Foxglove series. Recorded live in December 2004. The lineup was: D. Smolken (bass, cello banjo, umber hulk), K. Elgethun (electric bass, violin, floating eye), T. Zephyr (flute, drum, leprechaun) and M. Rosin (voice, unicorn). Includes two covers of Taint Meat and one of a march by Vasil Ivanovich Agapkin.

Uneasy Autumn Moan
In The East
She Dances
To A Modern Poet
To The Boy Elis
French Vampire Carol

Reviews

The One True Dead Angel
July 2005
Once upon a time there was a band called the Dead Raven Choir. They issued forth piles of obscure cds, cd-rs, and albums while you weren't paying attention. Then they broke up (mostly so Smolken could go to Poland and chase real tall Polish hotties, but probably for other reasons too). Now Smolken and his pals ply their trade in this new band, which sports a different (but not that different) sound as a diabolical string quartet, plus a nifty new logo that, in the best tradition of death and black metal bands, is completely unreadable. (I really think they broke up and reformed under this name just for the logo. But I think a lot of things that may or may not have anything to do with the truth. And what is truth anyway? The TRUTH is a LIE! The LIE is TRUTH! NOW is the only thing that's REAL!) So here they are, then, with a wee li'l pint-sized cd-r on Digital Industries featuring six new tunes that build on the bones of DRC. If you're familiar with the DRC's sound, then you'll know what to expect; for the rest of you, what you're gonna get is mutant country death folk, with plenty of clattering and battering amid the droning cadences of the devil's stringed instruments. Two of the tracks here ("She Dances Because She Loves Me" and "French Vampire Carol") are based on tracks by Taint Meat, which certainly doesn't hurt. The music harkens back to a simpler and more primitive time in which they almost certainly would have been burned at the stake for their attitude, which just makes it all the more sweetly grim, don't you think?