Wolf King
by Alessandro De Murtas

Featured Songs: 
Dents In Dust
I Am Wolf King

[..] Wolf King is at this point a one man (me, Christo) studio band. I do the vocals, guitar, bass, drum programming and recording/producing myself. The music is Goth Rock for want of a better term. I am just striving to be as creative and original as possible. I am influenced by bands like The Doors, Danzig, Type O Negative, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper and the Cult. I do not aim to sound like any of them but they are definitely the bands that have defined rock and roll to me since my very early teen years. I got my first Alice Cooper album when i was 6 years old, a friends older brother worshipped him and ofcourse my friend and I thought his brother was the coolest dude on two legs so we liked the Coop as well. I never turned back. I've always been a hard rock fan and I probably always will be although there is little in the current hard rock scene that i find interesting. Rap and roll bands like Limp Bizcuit are just not for me.

-I've recently released a two-song demo CD titled, Symbols of Freedom (the Demo's) on mp3.com and hope to release a full length CD before the end of 2001. The songs on the cd are called, "Dents in Dust" (a dreamy Doorsish tune which is slated for play at The Bear 100.3 FM in Edmonton in August) and "I Am Wolf King" which is a very simple straight-forward power chord rocker that clocks in just a little over 2 minutes.

(..) -Future Plans-
Wolf King will not be a one man band for long. A good friend of mine, Rob who is a very talented guitarist/bassist will be joining forces with me. Rob is a true guitarist, whereas i am just a guy with a guitar. Rob will expand the limitations of the Wolf King sound. The interesting part about Rob joining that ties in with the benefits of n-Track is that Rob lives in Toronto, Ontario and I live in Halifax, Nova Scotia. We are going to write songs with each other while living over 2000miles apart. We will FTP ideas in wave format to each other (both of us having NTRack) and basically we'll do the drums first, then rob will lay down the guitar and bass in toronto, send them to me via the internet, and i will lay down the vocals and any additional guitars, effects etc.. in Halifax. It is going to be an interesting project to say the least.
Also joining Wolf King are what i have decided to call, The Lycanthropes. The Lycanthropes consists of anybody who is at my house when i am recording and wants to chip in creatively to whatever song i am currently working on. This could mean friend or family or someone on the internet who email's me a cool sound effect (as long as it's original!) The first Lycanthrope is slated to be a girl by the name of Lara who is bringing her 12 string acoustic over to record the intro for the next CD, she is a very talented player and i am looking forward to it. Wolf King is ultimately about freedom, not revolutionary freedom, but personal freedom. Being free, being happy; throwing down the shackles that the corporate, religious and trendy-right-wing-media-lackey-world tries to tie you down with.