HOLIDAY SALE AT THE ONION STORE

Artist Pack Of Wolves

Featuring the gremlin screams of former At All Cost frontman Trey Ramirez, Austin’s Pack Of Wolves fortunately doesn’t share that band’s taste for trends: There are no melodic concessions to the emo crowd hidden in the blast-beat assaults of its debut,Betrayer—and even better, not a vocoder to be found. It’s just organic, intensely delivered metalcore that’s all the more cutting for its sharp-edged simplicity. The addition of bassist Gabriel Bishop and guitarist Josh Holstein marks a turning point toward greater dissonance and darker subject matter for the Pack, which begins the next chapter of its thrashing, harrowing oeuvre with the vinyl-only Penance Of Pestilence.

Updated 09/08/2010

« Back to the A.V. Club home

Share Tools