Wolves is a Toronto hip hop group made up of D-Sisive, Ghettosocks, Muneshine and Timbuktu, with production by Bix. It is one of several acts using the name. The group is Canadian and works in hip hop.

Related act with the same name

Another Wolves is an emo-hardcore band that is first conceived in early 2000 by Brad Wallace and Tim Glowik. It develops from the emo hardcore scene of the early to mid 1990s and begins to take shape in the fall of 2001 with a line-up of Tim Glowik on guitar and vocals, Brad Wallace on guitar, Erik Hopp on bass guitar and Andy Skelly on drums. In its four-year existence, it releases one album, Art.Culture.Work, an EP, Simulation.Transparency.Alienation, two split 7-inches with Ampere and Sinaloa, and a 12-inch split with Transistor Transistor. The band ends because of geographic hardship and members moving in different creative directions, and plays its final two shows in Amherst and Boston, Massachusetts, in January 2004.

Style and influences

This emo-hardcore Wolves is described as drawing on avant-garde art movements and 1960s radicals as well as musical peers. Its songs do not repeat themselves and the project is presented as combining theory and practice, with the records treated as visual as well as musical work.

Other artists sharing the name

Other acts called Wolves include a five-piece hardcore band from Newcastle, Australia, formed in 2005; a black metal band influenced by Bathory and Hellhammer; a Connecticut pop punk and indie band; a southern California hardcore and experimental project; a hardcore band from Bellevue, Washington, formed in 2009; a New Jersey rock project led by multi-instrumentalist Paul Adler; and a Milwaukee metal group with progressive, technical, hardcore and doom influences.