Track Listing:

1. Kill the Rhythm
2. Come Friendly Bombs
3. Abandon Ship
4. In The Belly Of A Shark
5. Six Years
6. Rolling With The Punches
7. Last Fight For the Living Dead
8. Just Because You Sleep Next To Me Doesn't Mean You Are Safe
9. Will Someone Shoot That Fucking Snake
10. Stay Cold
11. I Promise This Won't Hurt
12. Orchestra Of Wolves
13. Sick Of Feeling Sick
14. Black Heart Queen
15. Nervous Breakdown

Album Review:

 
I almost passed on the chance to review this album, until I saw Gallows perform live during the Warped Tour 2007. After witnessing their intense set, I thought to myself 'what the hell did I miss?' I decided to give this album a proper listen, and was rewarded for it.

Orchestra of Wolves is an appropriate title for this album, because I imagine that the sounds a wolf-pack makes while it's disemboweling you would not be too dissimilar. The music is an unrelenting tirade of screaming and raw guitars.

It remarkably refreshing to see a young band like this take on some real hard punk rock, and own it. Punk fans, who feel your minds have been poisoned by the recent glut of pop-punk progressive-emo fare, will find this brand of UK street-punk to be a remarkably refreshing antidote for your ills.

Type 3 Rating:

 
| 10.08.2007 | Review by J. Pierson |