{"id":2083,"date":"2014-08-12T10:30:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T15:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2014-08-11T20:16:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T01:16:15","slug":"take-a-ride-on-the-backs-of-ire-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/take-a-ride-on-the-backs-of-ire-wolves\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a Ride on the Backs of IRE WOLVES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Duluth is a great town for music if you\u2019re a white person with dreadlocks and a Bob Marley poster lazily tacked onto\u00a0your dorm wall. If you want to groove to a vanilla-flavored jam-band or some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xjdkc14-zwQ\">impressively shreddin\u2019 folk tunes<\/a>, the western tip of Lake Superior is where your soul truly resides and you must answer the harbor\u2019s call to become part and parcel with your patchouli-scented banjo. If you are any other kind of music fan, however, you best just be in town to hike, ski, or enjoy the majestic view of the world\u2019s largest body of freshwater. Thankfully, there are a few brave pioneers that seek to make the lakeside trading port a happier place for greasy longhairs who wear black, instead of greasy longhairs who wear tie-die. Among these precious few is <a href=\"http:\/\/irewolves.bandcamp.com\/releases\">Ire Wolves<\/a>, hard-stomping post-metallers from America\u2019s scalp.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/album=369822166\/size=tall2\/bgcol=FFFFFF\/linkcol=4285BB\/\" style=\"position:relative;display:block;width:150px;height:450px;\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ire Wolves\u2019 debut album <a href=\"http:\/\/irewolves.bandcamp.com\/releases\">The Ascetic<\/a> is everything you want from post-metal. They\u2019ve got the whole rollercoaster dynamics thing down to a sexy, sexy science. It\u2019s heavy and ugly, except for the times when it\u2019s quiet and pretty, and the other times when it\u2019s both heavy AND pretty. Oodles of other bands do this too, but what Ire Wolves has that I don\u2019t see too often in post-metal are riffs that got DAT\u00a0BOUNCE. Album opener <a href=\"http:\/\/irewolves.bandcamp.com\/track\/enduring-molasses\">Enduring Molasses<\/a> is a jam that shakes my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=Tuchus\">tuchus<\/a> in addition to my noggin, especially when the guitar goes into higher register on the chorus. Unff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/track=1328286107\/size=tall\/bgcol=FFFFFF\/linkcol=4285BB\/\" style=\"position:relative;display:block;width:150px;height:295px;\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although sparingly used, the human voice is a compelling capstone to Ire Wolves&#8217;\u00a0tone-monolith. The growls throughout the record are a force of nature, powerful and full of the Truth of Ages. Ire Wolves also\u00a0deserve\u00a0megaprops for having a couple of real-ass singers in the band; the clean vocal dynamics on <a href=\"http:\/\/irewolves.bandcamp.com\/track\/beholden-to-none\">Beholden to None<\/a> range from \u201csleeptalking Maynard James Keenan\u201d to \u201cyoung Ozzy performs The Wall under duress\u201d to \u201cSimon and Garfunkel bewail\u00a0your <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.stripersonline.com\/6\/6b\/6b8bfd4d_328377-vlcsnap_00234_super.jpeg\">viking funera<\/a>l\u00a0with a pagan death chant\u201d, a transformation I am happy to experience on repeat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/track=2800984196\/size=tall\/bgcol=FFFFFF\/linkcol=4285BB\/\" style=\"position:relative;display:block;width:150px;height:295px;\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Give these cool cats a listen, and consider donating the $5 to download the shit. Do it now, before they abandon all hope and pawn\u00a0their full stacks\u00a0to buy mandolins and vintage trousers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duluth is a great town for music if you\u2019re a white person with dreadlocks and a Bob Marley poster lazily tacked onto\u00a0your dorm wall. If you want to groove to a vanilla-flavored jam-band or some impressively shreddin\u2019 folk tunes, the western tip of Lake Superior is where your soul truly resides and you must answer the harbor\u2019s call to become part and parcel with your patchouli-scented banjo. If you are any other kind of music fan, however, you best just be in town to hike, ski, or enjoy the majestic view of the world\u2019s largest body of freshwater. Thankfully, there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":2089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[543,544,545,546],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ire-Wolves.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}