Platinum-certified hard rock heavyweights BAD WOLVES (John Boecklin on drums, Doc Coyle on lead guitar & backing vocals, and Kyle Konkiel on bass & backing vocals and since 2021 the former Acacia Strain vocalist Daniel “DL” Laskiewicz at the front), fuse unpredictable metallic intensity with impressive musicianship and arena-ready hooks.
The group have released (across all digital platforms) the first single, “Bad Friend,” from their highly anticipated studio album (title TBA) due later this year via Better Noise Music.
The riffage whooshes like a barrel of self-inflicted horrors!
Raw Ramp Music Magazine
“Bad Friend” brings awareness to recognizing the importance of cutting out people in your life who show toxic behavior and moving on from them. BAD WOLVES enlisted director Wombatfire (Asking Alexandria, Dream Theater) for its dark-themed music video (see below.)
“‘Bad Friend’ exemplifies exactly where Bad Wolves always wanted to be as a band,” explains vocalist Daniel “DL” Laskiewicz.
“It lives dead center of being melodically catchy as well as crushingly heavy and is a great representation of our new upcoming album. This song reminds us that TRUE friendship is not about being perfect or always saying the right thing but being there for each other through the good times and the bad. It’s also to be willing to acknowledge one’s own mistakes and make things right.”
Before the upbeat riffage whooshes like a barrel of self-inflicted horrors blasted in a parasuicidal doomwards-bound chastening of reality-control, this starts out with melancholy self control. It will doubtless stir your Bad Friend’s mental faculties into an hornets’ nest of contrition.
Grab the new song here: https://badwolves.ffm.to/badfriend