Wraith of the Ropes are a Horror Metal band from Hamilton/Cincinnati, Ohio in the US. W.O.T.R. formed in late 2001. When they first began they wrote all instrumental "Horror Music" akin to Horror film soundtracks of the 1970's and early-1980's. A couple years into the band's existence they began adding vocals to their songs that are a creepy mixture of old-school distorted Industrial Music and Black Metal. An even more drastic evolution in their sound was the inclusion of elements of Death/Doom Metal and Funeral Doom music. By 2004 they had developed their own unique sound that had a very depressive and melancholic feeling to it but also possessed an atmosphere of brooding Horror. Their first CD, Ada, was completed in 2005 and released on Halloween of that year by the underground Israeli metal label Total Rust Music. W.O.T.R. also had a self-released demo/EP on that same exact day called

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