so the first time i heard this band i wuz like, what the fuck?!?!?...shit..and then it was like.."SUPERZAP" on my face..
i don't know..i was in history class and my friend was like "listen to this band called wolf eyes, it's crazy stuff man" i was like "yeah dude" but in my mind i was like, i've heard a lot of crazy stuff, it's probably just some generic bullshit i've heard before.
but it wasn't! ah! i went to tower records a few months later and picked up their current album at the time "burned mind". the album name alone sold me. burned mind. that's a very...interesting..harsh...abstract thought..image..title...whatever.
so i listened to it. and i was stabbed in the face. really. the second track is called stabbed in the face.
my first reaction was terror, disbelief, confusion, and a headache. that's how it was for a while. what you've gotta understand is that this band makes pure noise, and many people have used that term to describe unfamiliar music before. older people will call death metal of punk rock noise, because of its hardness and screaming and rawness, you know? but this stuff is literally just noise...
I saw them once in concert, about a year after that and it was one of the most intense, unusual live shows i've ever scene.
there are three people in the band, one screams, one plays sax/random percussion/a self made one string super bass, the final plays a regular bass tuned very very low/random percussion. all of them use electric devices that make noises in some way, and effect them, and just make a cacophony of noise.
it was so loud.
there was a man sitting in the middle of the floor on a chair..he must've been in his forties, he was heavily tatooed and bejeweled with pentagram rings and other occult signs. all of a sudden, when wolf eyes hit their crushing stride in the middle of one of their songs, his head fell back and his face was pointing upward. then i could see his eyes, because i was standing right behind him, and they were rolled back in his head. then i noticed his hands, and they were forming different symbols in mid air. i didn't understand what i was seeing, whether he was in a genuine trance state, or not. but regardless, i understood why this was the only concert at which i had seen someone behave like that before. this music definitely does have the power to elevate consciousness. anyone who reads this should make it a point to buy the album "dead hills" or "dread" by wolf eyes. or "human animal". they present a very different musical perspective that has a unique functionality not inherent in mainstream music.
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