Reviews:

WOLFPACK play what I would think of as an Albany hardcore sound - very heavily influenced by early New York bands (the Mob, Agnostic Front, Antidote), but with a pretty good dose of Boston hardcore in there as well (Jerry's Kids especially, but also SSD and maybe even the slightest hint of Negative FX in some of the drumming). The singer sounds like a weird combination of Roger Miret and the singer from Mudhoney, which is pretty cool for a song or two but can get on my nerves over the course of an L.P. The first song has totally crazy fast off-beat (snare on beats 1 and 3, not 2 and 4) Mob-style drumming, but after that most of the tracks are mid-paced, with only "Black Book of Hell" really getting fast. No lyric sheet on this one, but from the song titles and what I can discern of the vocals, they weren't taking themselves too seriously. They sure seemed to get a kick out of that whole wolf theme, too. "Wolfpack," by the way, is an original, not the DYS song. So, on the one hand, this album really isn't all that great. On the other hand, though, it's a record by an Albany band that doesn't just totally ape New York, so that's cool. Also, for a record that came out in 1988 it betrays neither youth-crew nor metal-crossover influences - it totally sounds about five years older, from the songs to the guitar sound. So that, too, is pretty cool. Track 5 ("Chipmunk on the Road") is listed on sleeve and record label, but does not appear on record.
-SEAN DOODY