Band:	Wolves Carry My Name
Album:	Amongst Ruins And Ashes
Style:	Sludge metal, Stoner metal
Release date:	April 20, 2012
Guest review by:	Boxcar Willy

01. Ruins
02. Lupus Milk
03. Nineteen Stitches
04. As We Worship Their Shadows
05. City Of Knives
06. Ashes

Sludge metal, my favourite genre. Bands take influences from all types of music in sludge. They can be atmospheric like Isis or deathlike a la Horn Of The Rhino. My favourite variation you ask? Well? that has to be stoner sludge.

Wolves Carry My Name comes straight out of Germany, playing a fuzzed out sludge hybrid. Taking influences from stoner, and even a little bit of post metal, this quintuple really show what they are capable of on this 5 song EP. The instrumentation is harsh and full of groove, the vocals are more vicious than a 3 legged badger.

But there's more to it than just BALLS TO THE WALL 100% FURY!!!!11!1! Follow the music closer and you'll see those little hints of all those musical genres, the post metal in the riffs, the groove in the bass. All of this slowly works its way out into a full-on explosion of musical genius. Every member showcases their respective talent, whether it be slappin' the bass, pounding the skins or some other dumb 90's term for playing guitar or singing.

The music itself rolls in as if it were a steam engine powered train. The burly high-school grade school dropouts shovel piles and piles of coal into the burns, track one begins. The engine turns over as the machine starts to wake. The train now starts to roar just as Konstantin starts belting out the lyrics. Tracks 2-4 are now blasting out my ear drums as the train speeds ahead. The final track hits as the train starts slowing down and entering the next yard. Slowing and slowing? into an outro of samples and ambience?

The trip is done; get the hell off the train.