I’m late bringing this to you, for which I apologise, but it’s so good I thought better late than never.
Wolforna do raw heavy rock; heavy on the sound of full impact guitars, soaring vocals and thunderous drums. But, this is the crucial thing, their music is full of nuance; odd sounds that you don’t really expect to hear. It’s that twist that makes it soooo good.
There’s a theme that runs through this EP both in sound and, if I’m not mistaken song; Wolforna have embraced dystopia, unease, the sound of a world falling apart.
OK, so they’re easing us into it with ‘Your Tongue, My Teeth’. The feel here is full-on heavy rock attack. But in the guitar based glorious grind there’s something else – anxiety inducing weird sounds, backing vocals with that ‘edge’.
‘What’s that In Old Money’ is a big song. It’s intricately constructed with many many changes, one moment it’s a huge riff, the nest a ‘quiet section’ with massed vocals and delicate guitar. I have to admit that as an old style back in the day heavy rock fan, this is ticking all the boxes and rocking my world.
A disturbing voicemail introduces ‘Copium’ an off-kilter sinuous song that is distinctly unsettling. Yep, it rocks hard but it’s melodic, and that sweet melodic sound just does sit alongside that off-kilter sound; that’s the key to this, it’s what does it for me.
‘Zombie Knife’ takes their sound somewhere else. It’s the sound of a terrifying night. It crawls, it’s dirty, it slinks, it’s dark as fuck. This is epic, this is huge. It’s cinematic. It’s the sound of a band pushing the envelope of heavy rock as far as it will bloody stretch.
The EP closes with ‘Chains’. A song that I can only describe as a slow heavy rock ballad. Grinding guitars, piano, sweet as fuck vocals all combine into something incredibly powerful. A fitting end to a brilliant EP.
The thing about Wolforna is that while they clearly take their musical cues from old style back in the day heavy rock, their sound takes that and adds to it, stretches it and takes music from then until now into it. And yet it’s still heavy rock.
There’s only one short way to describe this EP; bloody incredible, The longer way is say that this EP is the sound of a band writing and playing jaw droppingly fantastic songs Beyond that I have no words.
