Daily Download: "Arkless," Wilderness

Menacing, doom-filled rock from a Baltimore quartet.

Published August 4, 2005 7:01AM (EDT)

On "Arkless," a dark, doom-laden rock song from the debut record by Baltimore quartet Wilderness, the band plays a heavy dirge of a riff over which singer James Johnson hoarsely barks out clipped, repetitive phrases, desperate and incantatory, and sounding something like a seal in mating season.


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