WOLFHEART

To understand Wolfheart you must understand Portugal in the 90's. By then, the metal scene was absolutely secondary in this small country, and looked upon as something evil and despicable. Someone from Lisbon might say my comment is a little exagerated, but you should see how it was in Alentejo (an interior province of Portugal). When Wolfheart first came to my hands, I was somehow doubtful about it... A portuguese Metal band with something new to show? In 1995 it seemed unlightly, I can assure you. Fortunately I was wrong, very wrong... Something different was emerging and with Moonspell's Wolfheart or other small efforts as Diva by Heavenwood, it was time to put Portugal in the headbanggers heads across Europe. And it was about time. Wolfheart is not only valuable for the music... Is also valuable for the meaning... Drinking of the same influences of Tiamat (pre-Wildhoney fase), early The Gathering, and other bands from the Century Media catalogue (and an important link to main man producer Waldemar Sorytcha) Moonspell did not achieve the deserved recognition, til Irreligious came out, but that is another chapter. From Wolfheart, can be highlighted serious tracks, but the the main highlight is the release as an whole. You can not dissociate Wolfshade (A werewolf Masquerade) from An Erothic Alchemy or ...Of Dreams and Drama. The popular influenced Trebaruna or the polemic Alma Mater that remembers times of conquest and grandness of Lusitania by the 1500's, a time when Portugal was, with Spain, the Super-Powers of the known world. You can ask me... But is really Wolfshade a true prog record? I would tell you No... But represents a good starting point and an exclusive view of the world.