ALPHA WOLF
A Quiet Place To Die SHARPTONE
Rhino-wasting, nu metal manoeuvres from Down Under
Alpha Wolf aren’t mucking around. The Aussies lunge for the jugular on the huge opening title track and continue until nothing remains but a fleshy puddle. The quintet are part of a new crop taking the spirit of nu metal, sharpening up the edges and expanding the template. On closer Don’t Ask, the band incorporate post-rock, which leaves them room to grow but this album’s charms lie in the monolithic breakdowns of Creep and Rot In Pieces, where guitars stab like shards of glass. By the time vocalist Lochie Keogh roars ‘Watch the bodies DRRRRRRROP!’ on the monstrous Akudama, you’ll be running to smack the nearest rhino in the face.