Wolfmare

小简介
Wolfmare这支民谣金属乐队在2002年成立于俄罗斯的文化之都圣彼得堡。虽然同样是民谣金属,这队俄罗斯人却玩出了新的花样,他们的新专辑中融入了欧洲黑暗金属的影响,同时又涵盖了浓厚的中世纪神秘气息。乐队先是用风笛、大提琴、小提琴、曼陀林等传统乐器为新专辑的音乐搭起了中世纪民谣的骨架、然后又用黑色的吉他轰鸣声碾碎了每一块骨头。乐队一共有三名主唱分别表演不同的声部:尖叫咆哮着的黑死腔、干净利落的传统民谣男声、以及天籁人声般的女声。Wolfmare的歌词总是让人难以捉摸的,除了英文外,乐队主要用古代的德语和拉丁语进行创作,古老的语言自然要用来讲述远古的传说,来自斯堪的纳维亚半岛的民间传说,还有被移植到现代语境中的异化了民间故事。这一切正是《Whitemare Rhymes》这张专辑要带你去体验的。
he folk metal band WOLFMARE known as WOLFSANGEL before September 2007 was founded in 2002 in St. Petersburg, Russia by ex-members of local metal and folk projects. From the very beginning WOLFMARE was planned to be not only a band to play music but also a kind of performance act. The main language of lyrics is English, but some traditional sacred texts in ancient languages like Latin and old German are also used. WOLFMARE songs are based on both the past and the present. They are a kind of mix between European (mostly Scandinavian) traditions and sounds of modern world.
OLFMARE is a successful live band. They played at a number of club gigs and open airs in St. Petersburg, Moscow and other Russian cities. They supported such bands as CRUACHAN, TIAMAT, FINNTROLL, BATTLELORE, ENSIFERUM, and KORPIKLAANI in St. Petersburg and were the special guests at the CRUACHAN’s Russian tour.
OLFMARE has recorded two albums. The first one released by the local metal label FONO in 2004 is titled Widdershins (as Wolfsangel). It can be described as a model folk metal piece with some minor influences of black metal. Although it was not distributed outside Russia, about 3.000 copies were sold. Recording of the second album called Whitemare Rhymes was finished in Spring, 2007 and was released by CCP Records on April 4th, 2008. Unlike it was in the first album, all the acoustic instruments like bagpipes, cello, fiddle et al. are not sampled, but played live. Unlike it was in the first album, there are three lead vocals (growl/scream, clean male vocal and clean female one) here as well as the guest vocals by Keith Fay and Karen Gilligan from CRUACHAN. Unlike it was in the first album, it cannot be characterized as pure folk metal, since creativity of the band is too strong to lock it in frames of one genre. More shades of black metal, doom metal and even the 70s rock added to the folk metal base make the unique WOLFMARE sound.