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Melbourne maniacs Werewolves are on the attack once again, and if you’ve been following what they’ve unleashed previously, don’t expect to be surprised this time. Die For Us is another slab of unrelenting black-laced death metal ferocity that brooks no compromise in the band’s mission to be as violent as possible.
The spoken word intro to the title track serves as a warning that extreme violence is imminent, and that promise is fulfilled only seconds later. Even when it slows down to a sinister grind after the initial blasting, there’s no mistaking this is death metal intensity from Matt Wilcock’s belt-fed riffing and Dave Haley’s drum onslaught to the dry rasping vocals spitting hate. Each track just gets faster and more intense, building to My Hate is Strong that features Rok from Sadistik Exekution, clawing his way out of some fisherman’s grave he’s been in for at least the last 15 years to add some profanity to the proceedings.
The Company of Wolves slows things down a couple of notches without losing any of the band’s brutal rhythmic drive nor the dark, black metal influence, only for Spittle-Flecked Rant to step it up into death-grind territory once again with one of the fastest and most aggressive tracks they’ve churned out so far – and that’s saying something.
Five albums in and Werewolves have stayed true to their ferocious vision. Die For Us is every bit as feral and rapacious as everything they have released so far. This is pure, unadulterated extreme metal with no apologies to anything.