Werewolves – My Enemies Look and Sound Like Me (Review)

This is the fourth album from Australian death metal band Werewolves.

Following quickly on the heels of last year’s From the Cave to the Grave, Werewolves have returned with My Enemies Look and Sound Like Me, which boasts 34 minutes of lean and muscular new material.

If you’ve yet to encounter Werewolves, then imagine you throw Vader, Marduk, Usurper, and The Black Dahlia Murder into a blender; the resulting concoction should bear some resemblance of what you’ll find on My Enemies Look and Sound Like Me.

An explosive mixture of blast beats, searing blackened riffs, punishing rhythms, and belligerent vocals, Werewolves destroy the opposition with attitude and contemptuous ease. This is tight, well-written death metal that’s got a nasty edge and more than enough bite to back up its ferocious bark.

My Enemies Look and Sound Like Me is an album of intensity and brutality. It’s not short of wicked hooks either, which elevates the music above the simply brutal. Werewolves can savagely tear out a ripping death metal tune, and this album packs nine of them into a raging package. Occasionally the band slow down, (most notably on album centrepiece Destroyer of Worlds), but mostly this is a fierce expression of devastating fast-paced viciousness.

Each song hits like a hammer, relentlessly, again and again, with great force. Honestly, this is such a ferociously moreish collection of tracks, delivered in a tight, lean running time, that I can’t stop listening to the damn thing. It’s built around a core of savage intensity that beats with a virile heart, and Werewolves are absolutely on fire throughout.

This is an effortlessly enjoyable listen if you’re a fan of your music merciless and harsh. Werewolves are clearly just better than your average death metal act, and they have the songs to prove it.

Essential listening for fans of sheer bloody brutality.