"A really weird one", that's one the first impressions I got from the listening of "False fangs for old werewolves" and if you'll get this cd you'll probably agree with that impression. Contrastate should be "expired" for five years so far but if there's something that nobody can write or say about this cd is that it sounds "old fashioned" or "surpassed" (many of the songs are coming from the early nineties!). "Odd", that's a good adjective to describe the music of Contrastate. This retrospective should appear on the top of the want list of every dark/experimentalism listener but it could be of great interest for those looking for something that's "out of the ordinary" but with a great "phatos". Fin De Siecle Media wrote this band believed that "rather than trying to re-create studio material, new songs would have been specifically written to be performed live" and after I've read it I couldn't but think how intense their live performances should have been. A good studio work, many songs have a definite "isolationist-death ambient" cut, but there's also something really old that made me think of the early industrial/post-industrial projects like Coil, Current 93, Nurse with Wound and company, they don't remind of these bands (just the use of delays and some of the sounds) but they owe a lot to these people (who don't?!). Another interesting thing is that while their music is dead serious, Contrastate had/have a great sense of humor: while reading the notes included inside the booklet of this cd I thought they probably could have been the best people to hang out with but again it surprisingly "contrastates" with the feeling they create through their compositions.