Wolf Eyes / Fuck Pete Larsen - ORE41

When a band is as prolific as Wolf Eyes, it’s hard to keep up. Add in their tendency to put things out in extremely limited quantities, and you’ve got a completist’s nightmare (and an eBay vendor’s wet dream). Luckily, sometimes Wolf Eyes releases find their way back onto the market, such as their debut LP, Dread, which was reissued widely by Bulb, and the rather early Slicer cassette, pressed on CD by Aaron Dilloway’s own Hanson imprint. More recently, the infamous Fuck the Old Miami 3" CDR, originally put out by Chondritic Sound, has been revived as a one-sided LP by Important Records. Another in the Fuck… series to find reissue this year is Fuck Pete Larsen, a limited edition live LP which was released in 2002 by Bad Glue. The LP sold out quickly, only to be resuscitated, sort of, as part of Wabana’s quest to rescue bootleg LPs from the depths of unavailability.

Released: January 23, 2007

Wolf Eyes / Human Animal - SP688

After a year of non-stop touring in support of 2004’s Burned Mind, Wolf Eyes were ready; seasoned to travel through horrible new areas of sound. During one four-week period at the dawn of ‘06, they laid down the ideas that would shape the new album in their studio, the Terror Tank. This new slab is the first with Mike Connelly (of Hair Police and the Gods of Tundra label) replacing Aaron Dilloway. Though he no longer tours with the band, Dilloway remains involved and helped to mix the new record with BMG (who also did the deed on Burned Mind).These songs are rotten with metal, reeds, consciousness-erasing islands of black doom; bass-heavy rippers, late-night free-terror jams, afflicted dog-hearts, underwater crabs: pure mayhem. The new double bass attack is showcased on “Human Animal” and “Rusted Mange” with scraping strings and a full terror-shriek workout re-organized by Dilloway. New directions are countered by “Rationed Rot,” which revisits the eerie Throbbing Gristle-esque vocal deployment that dates from Wolf Eyes’ Dread LP. The album also features the band’s first ever cover song: a dead-on rendering of No Fucker’s rotten hXc anthem, “Noise Not Music,” which closed out a lot of shows on Wolf Eyes’ recent European tour. As ever, Wolf Eyes will be living on the road, with Australian and American tours in the works, and more on the horizon.

Released: September 26, 2006

Wolf Eyes / Burned Mind - SP638

Ann Arbor, MI’s Wolf Eyes are at the forefront of a quickly expanding American noise scene. The trio of Nate Young, Aaron Dilloway and John Olson are the epitome of the self-sufficient musical entity. Olson and Dilloway have their own labels (American Tapes and Hanson Records respectively) that have been releasing cassettes, CDRs, 7"s, LPs and just about every other format, often in painfully limited editions, of Wolf Eyes material since Young first used the moniker in 1997. Their existence as a trio dates to 2000. And they’ve since released albums on Bulb (Dread, 2001) and Troubleman Unlimited (Dead Hills, 2002). The music that Wolf Eyes creates is truly terrifying; the soundtrack to street fight that erupts into outright incineration. Sonic touchstones include Throbbing Gristle, early Cabaret Voltaire, Black Flag, Whitehouse, Pre-Asheton Destroy All Monsters, Negative Approach, Swans and early Sonic Youth. The advocacy of the latter has led to many opening slots and a spot on the entire 2004 Lollapalooza tour.

Released: 2004-09-28 (CD), 2005-05-03 (LP), 2009-10-14 (MP3s)

Wolf Eyes / Dead Hills - TMU104

Track Listing:
1. Dead Hills
2. Dead Hills 2
3. Rotten Tropics

Wolf Eyes / Dread - BLB079

Track Listing:
1. Burn Your House Down
2. Desert of Glue
3. Wretched Hog
4. Half Animal, Half Insane
5. Let the Smoke Rise

Wolf Eyes / Slicer - HN100

Track Listing:
I do not know but I can tell you that there are seven songs on this thing.

Released: August 15, 1974

Wolf Eyes / Lost Sockets - CIP015

A vicious little 10-inch EP from WOLF EYES originally intended as a merch item for the band’s stint on the failed 2004 Lollapalooza tour. One side is a brainpan dripping excavation of underwater caves; the other side has two lurching grinder tracks which speak more to bands like SPK as adulterated by the Wolf folks. Limited edition of 1,001 copies, packaged in silk-screened sleeves.

Released: October 28, 2004