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NIGHTWÖLF
The Cult Of The Wolf

Kill Again (2023)
Rating: 8.5/10

Released on Friday the 13th (as if that’s going to make proceedings more spooky!), The Cult Of The Wolf is the debut full-length outing from Brazilian quintet Nightwölf.

This is a band that plays straight up leather-clad metal, so what you get is plenty of fury and fire and a fantastic production, so major praise goes to the team at Hangar 408 studio. Slot this back into 1986 and you’ve got a sure-fire winner as guitars blaze like autumnal fires, vocals soars like fireworks and drums and bass provide heavy artillery.

Streaks of speed metal abound with the superb ‘Under The Sky’, and ‘Reign In Metal’ opts for a more traditional and melodic design but remains just as potent. Meanwhile, ‘Glory Or Death’ and ‘Do Or Die’ are charged with such a thrashing electricity.

Yep, it’s flaming hot metal that sizzles from start to finish; the vocals of Jack Znake are a molten joy, his pipes meander through smoking wastelands of metallic debris as alongside him drummer João Videira, bass man Guilherme de Almeida and axe men Adan Hessen and Rafael Roan construct thick walls of steel.

Whether as a chugging juggernaut (‘Kill The Light’) or majestically brooding (‘The Cult Of The Wolf’), Nightwölf boasts one hell of a colossal sound that will surely leave headbangers worldwide suffering from severe whiplash. The Cult Of The Wolf is fantastic debut… buy or die!

Neil Arnold

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