Four years after Shadowland the Swedish heavy metal band that has never once pretended to be anything else opens the hour it is named for, and Wolf put Hour of the Wolf out tomorrow, 15 November, through Fireflash Records.
It is their tenth full length album. The record runs nine songs and forty three minutes, opening on "Death Satellite" and closing on "Dirty Little Secret", with the title track sixth in the order. In between sit "The Music of Erich Zann", named after the Lovecraft story, "Walpurgis Night", "Streets of Necropolis", "Waltz Post-Mortem", "Above the Fallen" and "Doppelgänger".
Two songs are already out through the label with videos of their own, "Death Satellite" and "Walpurgis Night". The longest piece on the record is "Walpurgis Night" at six minutes and seventeen seconds; the shortest is "Dirty Little Secret" at three forty seven.
Wolf formed in Örebro in 1995 and Niklas Stålvind has sung and played guitar in it from the first day. Simon Johansson has been on the second guitar since 2011, and Pontus Egberg on bass and Johan Koleberg on drums since 2019. The album is out on digital through Fireflash.