Guitar Wolf - Golden Black (2005) RESTORED

Well known to be one of the most savage Rock & Roll bands of all time, the Japanese power trio Guitar Wolf were founded in Nagasaki in 1987. The band is known for songs with piercing vocals and an extremely loud style of noise-influenced punk/garage rock which emphasizes heavy distortion and feedback. They coined the phrase "Jet Rock 'N' Roll", which they also use to describe their musical style — an energetic cross between Rockabilly, Old School Punk, and Garage Rock. This 26-track anthology expresses Guitar Wolf's powerful voice the way all greatest hits albums should - by allowing the fans to choose every single track. All songs were re-mastered; includes rare and OOP material. 74+ minutes of original Japanese Jet Rock'n'Roll!

With their amps cranked past the threshold of pain and the hard but smeary blare of their guitars pushing the VU meters past the red and into the infrared, Guitar Wolf are a band who play straight-ahead punk rock with a physical force and frantic intensity matched by only a tiny handful of mere humans, and they've left behind plenty of fine records that document their speed-jive genius with commendable accuracy. Guitar Wolf's career came to a crossroads in March 2005 with the death of bassist Billy, and while guitarist Seiji and drummer Toru have pledged to continue with a new man on the four-string, that makes this as good a time as any to sum up the band's first era, and Golden Black is a "greatest hits" compilation that features 26 slabs of six-string frenzy recorded between 1997 and 2005, and from the first blast of "Can-Nana Fever" to the final growling report of their cover of "Summertime Blues", this album hits the road with the throttle opened all the way, and it never lets up for a moment. Even the album's token "ballad" – the noise-laden romantic number "I Love You, OK" – is tough as nails, and as they shout their tributes to such essential rock & roll subject matter as beer, girls, bikes, guitars, radio, space aliens, and lots more, this is primal no-quarter punk (with a rockabilly undertow) at its most joyous. If Golden Black: Greatest Hits isn't the definitive Guitar Wolf album – it doesn't cohere quite as well as the epochal Jet Generation – as an overview of the trio's first 18 years, it's superb blazing fun, and if you're looking for an ideal introduction to the group's glorious mayhem, this will do the trick just right.

~ Mark Deming, all media guide

Tracklist:

01. Can-Nana Fever
02. All Through The Night Buttobase!!
03. Missile Me
04. Rock 'N' Roll Etiquette
05. Wild Zero
06. Loverock
07. Lightning's Melody
08. Sky Star Jet
09. Jet Generation
10. Shinkansen High Tension
11. Jett Beer
12. Kaminari One
13. Invader Ace
14. UFO Romantics
15. Jet13
16. Murder By Rock
17. Mars Twist
18. Fujiyama Attack
19. Sparkle Baby
20. Red Rockabilly
21. Kawasaki Z2 750 Rock 'N' Roll
22. Taxi Driver
23. Shimane Slim
24. Roaring Blood
25. I Love You, OK
26. Summertime Blues






Produced by Guitar Wolf. Mastered by Shuji Kitamura
All additional information read inside the booklet.

Release Date: November 2005
Label: Narnack Records
Catalog No.: NCK 7035-2