Evergreen Terrace - Wolfbiker

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Casey Jones
Calico System
Underminded

Release Date

06/24/2007

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Metal Blade

Tracklist

1. Bad Energy Troll
2. High Tide Or No Tide
3. Wolfbiker
4. Chaney Can’t Quite Riff Like Helmet’s Page Hamilton
5. Where There Is Fire We Will Carry Gasoline
6. Rip This!
7. Starter
8. To The First Baptist Church Of Jacksonville
9. Rolling Thunder Mental Illness
10. The Damned

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Evergreen Terrace have always been one of those enjoyable and fun bands to listen to, even if their material never blows you away. Their newest CD, Wolfbiker, is another solid album filled with the familiar Evergreen Terrace style of hardcore, but it’s not until the midway point of this CD where you will begin to hear things this band hasn’t done before. Actually, the first four songs on Wolfbiker are borderline mediocre, despite the fact that they are catchy, yet aggressive, hardcore songs. I was honestly sure I would dislike this album.

Once you pass the atrocious “Chaney Can’t Quite Riff Like Helmet’s Page Hamilton” you come to track 5, “Where There Is Fire We Will Carry Gasoline” which is one of the best Evergreen Terrace songs to date. Right away its melody grabs a hold of you. This song does not once lose your interest for a second. During the middle of the song the band breaks into an atmospheric guitar lead that sounds nothing like this band has ever done, and it is nothing short of exceptional.

The following songs on this album are also solid, yet simplistic hardcore songs such as “To The First Baptist Church Of Jacksonville” and “Rolling Thunder Mental Illness” but they are overall good tunes to blast and have fun with. You will even hear some shades of bitter sounding metal, especially in “Rip This!”

If the opening for this album were a bit more memorable, then this record would be complete. I’d also like to hear Evergreen Terrace break out of that same old shell they’ve been in and expand their sound a little bit like they did in track five on this disc. Also, all of their albums, including this one, seem to end way too quickly and I’d like to see them write a few more songs for their following efforts. But in all, Wolfbiker is a CD that I’ll be spinning a lot this summer.

--Chris Pandolfo

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Aaron Yarborough
06/28/2007
06:17AM
Age: 30
Location
Atascadero, CA
i shared your sentiments until i heard this for like a 6th time, then i really started enjoying it. tracks 2, 3, 4 i now feel are some amazing songs as well as the others you mentioned such as Rip This!.. but even though "Chaney Doesnt Quite Riff..." is like an ugly duckling on this disc I still have grown to really enjoy that song. some of the choruses/lyrics are way corny "we are the wicked, we walk the city streets, by the lighthouse, by the riverside" so thats one complaint along with the fact the album is only 10 tracks and is short.

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jared
06/28/2007
10:28AM
Age: 30
Location
Minneapolis, MN
I'm absolutely LOVING this album right now. I really dug Sincerity... a lot, but I think I like this one just as much. I agree, "Where There is Gasoline..." is probably the best song on the record. The end of that song is going to be epic in at live shows. Consequently, the other tracks I liked are the ones you hated: "High Tide, Chaney, Starter, and The Damned." They all have prominent vocal melodies that stick in my head.

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Chris Conlan
06/28/2007
03:12PM
Age: 27
Location
Dubuque
I was just blasting this CD in my car. Good stuff.

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Rick Gebhardt
06/29/2007
11:29AM
Age: 31
Location
Minnesota
"Rip This" is freakin' huge. Great song. I still don't think this is as good as Sincerity, though.

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Chris Conlan
06/30/2007
07:43PM
Age: 27
Location
Dubuque
"Rip This" is probably my favorite track on the album.

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tim
06/30/2007
08:45PM
Age: 28
Location
Green Brook, NJ
i uh, loved writer's block. not gonna lie.
Chris Conlan
07/04/2007
10:18AM
Age: 27
Location
Dubuque
Man, I can't seem to get this album out of my CD player. This is by far my favorite ET album.

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Aaron Yarborough
07/04/2007
01:41PM
Age: 30
Location
Atascadero, CA
yep totally agree there. this shit is good.. ppl pick this up.

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tim
07/04/2007
02:30PM
Age: 28
Location
Green Brook, NJ
holy fuck i just listened to this. all i can say is .. awesome.
why do they sound like chimaira now, though?
oh well. who cares.
jared
07/04/2007
03:48PM
Age: 30
Location
Minneapolis, MN
tim
why do they sound like chimaira now, though?
Not hearing that similarity.

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Kerwin White
07/04/2007
04:52PM
Age: 26
Location
blockbuster
tim
i uh, loved writer's block. not gonna lie.

that album was great, dunno why people gave it so much flack

I mean come on, hardcore covers of Maniac and Mad World, among others ... thats just awesome
tim
07/05/2007
12:08AM
Age: 28
Location
Green Brook, NJ
jared, i thought on a couple tracks, the vocals sounded like the dude from chimaira. and all of a sudden this group isn't really hardcore anymore, and they sound more metal. i dunno. but uh, to me, this is evergreen terrace trying to pull a he is legend in the way of suck out the poison. but all in all, awesome.
thebled88
07/06/2007
10:24PM
Location
Boca Raton,FL
yea whoever reviewed needs to re-listen to tracks 2 and 3...probably the best on the album