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par recenzija:Planet Of The Wolvesby Ned RaggettReferences to the Ramones, black leather jackets, covers ranging from the Oblivians to fellow Japanese travelers Teengenerate -- not to mention a ragged rip through the Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction" itself! -- all this makes it clear: Guitar Wolf doesn't seek to mess around. And the band doesn't -- Planet of the Wolves lives up to both its and the band's name, right from the distorted, "up yours" explosive start, "Kawasaki ZII750 Rock'n'Roll." Like the best bands that keep it simple when it comes to their garage punk approach, there's just that little something extra to make everything truly great -- in this case, vocal and musical delivery that makes perfect sense from the land of the Boredoms. To mention Teengenerate again -- that band sounded like a classic combo firing up and letting fly on all fours, where Guitar Wolf sounds like a band of aliens shocking themselves every time they touch their instruments. Seiji in particular is just plain nuts, either screeching like his soul is being ripped from his body or playing guitar that demands instant attention under threat of death. Not that the Billy/Toru rhythm section is any slouch, clattering and rumbling along with just as much frenetic energy. The freaky drumming and crumbling noise on the instrumental title track (not to mention some great wolfman howls) is one thing, the utter rampages captured on "Far East Man" and the strutting burn through Link Wray's "Rumble" another. The murky fidelity on the album doesn't sound like a gimmick so much as it does a necessary shield for the music to keep from committing direct assault on one's bodily person. Anyone who loved the Scandinavian trash/garage/glam explosion of the '90s needs this album like a heroin addict needs horse -- except this is a lot cheaper.http://www.allmusic.com/album/planet-of-the-wolves-mw0000033539Rock 'n' Roll Etiquetteby Mark DemingAt this point in their career, reviewing a Guitar Wolf album is not unlike reviewing the Ramones -- they've firmly established their sonic template, so you have a pretty good idea of what to expect going in. The question, then, is whether this will be an album like Brain Drain (a great band just walking through the paces) or more like Too Tough to Die (a great band proving it's still got the muscle). Thankfully, Rock 'n' Roll Etiquette offers 15 slices of proof that these guitar-battering lunatics from Japan aren't likely to run out of steam anytime soon. This album starts out exploding in a blast of cranked-into-the-red guitars, battered drums, and percolating bass, and pretty much doesn't stop from there on out, even for the relatively slower songs like "The Way I Walk" or "Teardrop Boy." In short, this is primal rock & roll so raw it practically drips blood, and the grainy fuzz of the lo-fi audio and the manic half-English/half-Japanese howling only add to the impact. If you want your ears kicked, Guitar Wolf is still the band to call on, and Rock 'n' Roll Etiquette is one high-quality portion of gut-level wail.http://www.allmusic.com/album/rock-n-roll-etiquette-mw0000307849Dead Rockby Chris "Box" TaylorGuitar Wolf howls once again on their album Dead Rock. This is the group's first full-length since the untimely passing of their original bass player Billy in March of 2005 and the record is dedicated to him. U.G., the new bass wolf, makes his recording debut with the group and fills out the low-end rumble as if he was born into it, while also contributing great backing vocals throughout the record. Guitar Wolf is known for their patented "Jett Rock 'N' Roll" formula and it's firmly in place on tracks like "Andromeda Man," and the album's title track, "Dead Rock." They do change up the mixture slightly on "Kenka Rock" with the use of the dramatic pause, but they never stray too far from the four-four drum beat that makes up most of their grinding garage punk assault. The highlight of the record could be the album's only cover; Bruce Springsteen's "Fire." The band embraces the song and makes it their own by infusing it with their signature, gritty overdriven sound and Seiji's impassioned vocal delivery. If you weren't familiar with the original you might think the group wrote it themselves. Dead Rock is a dead-on rock & roll record from start to finish and a fine return to form for one of Japan's greatest rock & roll bands.http://www.allmusic.com/album/dead-rock-mw0000477229

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+recenzija Tribute To GW:Various ArtistsI Love Guitar Wolf: Very Muchby Mark DemingArguably Japan's greatest rock & roll band, Guitar Wolf set a new standard for sheer mania in the garage rock/punk axis -- clad in matching black leather and flailing at their Ramones-inspired songs with a fury and passion that could power a medium-sized city, guitarist Seiji, bassist Billy, and drummer Toru were the sort of band less interested in chops than in diving into their rock & roll as hard and as deep as they could, and if that meant leaping into their audience and onto their amps or pushing the needles so far into the red in the recording studio that engineers declared they played louder than was physically possible, then that's what they were willing to do. Guitar Wolf's full commitment to their music, and the fervent brilliance with which they attack their punk/garage/rockabilly hybrid, has earned them a small but mighty following outside the Land of the Rising Sun, and a dozen U.S. and U.K. bands (plus one group of Japanese interlopers) pay homage to the Wolf with the compilation I Love Guitar Wolf: Very Much. In the spirit of Guitar Wolf, much of this album is proudly lo-fi and blazingly loud (with a special shout-out going to Total Dork, whose version of "Shinkansen High Tension" is mastered noticeably louder than the rest of the disc), and the artists on board go out of their way to match the frantic spirit of the originals. While Lightning Bolt, Jim O'Rourke, and Total Dork kick out wildly noisy takes that match the fuzzy punch of the originals, most of the acts put the stamp of their own personality on the tunes while still honoring the classic Guitar Wolf intensity, with the blues-shot sway of the Porch Ghouls and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, the hard rock swagger of the Wildhearts, the old-school punk skank of Snuff, and the proto-stoner throb of J Mascis meshing best with these songs. This album appears at a turning point in Guitar Wolf's history -- bassist Billy died on March 30, 2005, while this project was already in the works, and while Seiji and Toru have pledged to continue, I Love Guitar Wolf: Very Much not only helps to sum up the greatness of the band's first era, but serves as a vital shout-out to Guitar Wolf when they could probably use it. It won't replace your copy of Jet Generation, but it's a loving and appropriately crazed tribute to a one-of-a-kind rock band.http://www.allmusic.com/album/i-love-guitar-wolf-very-much-mw0000205004

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