WULFGAR – Midgardian Metal CD
Trollzorn Records
No shit there I was in Stockholm last year in a bar telling this drunken Swede that what their nation’s melodic death metal scene needs most to give it a kick in the ass is an AMON AMARTH cover band. Enter WULFGAR from Sweden who were probably playing the bar scene in Stockholm for the homies while the real thing was on the road. No I was not hanging out in Stockholm but WULFGAR does sound like a AMON AMARTH cover band. They even had Jens Bogren who mastered the last two AMON AMARTH releases working with em. The only difference between the two is that their vocalist, Emil Augustsson, sounds a little like Johan Hegg but only after he chugs a second bottle of jagar or you chug it because jagar makes you hard of hearing.
Don’t get me wrong since I think Midgardian Metal, their sophomore release, is pretty damm good as far as Viking themed metal. If you are a fan of that then after you drop this into the dink tray and push play you’ll be dawning your plastic Halloween Viking helmet and hailing to the hammer. Ah yeah that’s another band’s song but we’re on a theme here. When WULFGAR kicks out songs like “Norsemen of Steel”, “Fight Win Kill & Conquer” and of course the nod to the female listeners, “Valkyria”, you can’t help but place tongue in cheek. They sound like AMON AMARTH but with song titles borrowed from MANOWAR. You’ll probably play this for your friends before you pull out the TURISAS.
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