{"id":4049,"date":"1984-03-01T00:00:58","date_gmt":"1984-03-01T00:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=4049"},"modified":"2013-06-01T13:05:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T13:05:32","slug":"album-review-wolf-edge-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-wolf-edge-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"WOLF – Edge Of The World (1984) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

WOLF
Edge Of The World<\/strong><\/span>
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\nMausoleum (1984)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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This is the UK hard rock band that signed to Chrysalis a couple of years ago, released a single (\u2018Head Contact (Rock\u2019n\u2019Roll)\u2019 \/ \u2018A Soul For The Devil\u2019) and then seemed to disappear into obscurity… until now.<\/p>\n

Most, if not all, of the material here is at least two or three years old, and will be familiar with a lot of headbangers who have the singles and tapes of the band\u2019s early radio sessions. Included are the tracks from the aforementioned single, as well as \u2018Highway Rider\u2019 and \u2018Red Lights\u2019 from the band\u2019s debut release on the Metal label back in 1980 when Wolf went under the name of Black Axe.<\/p>\n

\u2018Red Lights\u2019 is undoubtedly the heaviest track on the album, although the best has to be the hard driving \u2018Shock Treatment\u2019. Other highlights are \u2018Too Close For Comfort\u2019, \u2018Medicine Man\u2019 and the title track, \u2018Edge Of The World\u2019.<\/p>\n

The remaining two numbers, \u2018Heaven Will Rock\u2019n\u2019Roll\u2019 and \u2018Rest In Peace\u2019, are of only average quality, and it must be said that \u2018Head Contact (Rock \u2019N\u2019Roll)\u2019 isn\u2019t the headbanging mayhem that the title suggests.<\/p>\n

Still, a good album from Wolf, but whether they can challenge the likes of Heavy Pettin\u2019, Mamas Boys and countless other commercial UK hard rock bands fighting for supremacy, remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

Bernard Doe<\/strong><\/p>\n

Review taken from Metal Forces, Issue 4 (1984)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WOLFEdge Of The World Mausoleum (1984)Rating: 8\/10 This is the UK hard rock band that signed to Chrysalis a couple of years ago, released a single (\u2018Head Contact (Rock\u2019n\u2019Roll)\u2019 \/ \u2018A Soul For The Devil\u2019) and then seemed to disappear into obscurity… until now. Most, if not all, of the material here is at least […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-wolf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4049"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4055,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}