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  Caption Photo by David Waldman
  Years Active 2003 &ndash present
  Country Montreal , Canada
  Status Active
  Music Genre Noise Rock
  Record Label Skin Graft Records
  Current Members Yannick Desranleau (Hiroshima Thunder)<br/> Andre Guerette (Him, the Maji)<br/> Chloe Lum (Special Deluxe)<br/> Chris Taylor (Barbarian Destroyer)


AIDS Wolf is a Canadian Noise Rock band, currently on Skin Graft Records . Quoting Captain Beefheart , they describe their sound as that of "a Squid eating Dough in a Polyethylene bag".


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According to singer Chloe Lum, the name "AIDS Wolf" comes from an Urban Legend wherein wolves carry AIDS and pass it to house pets who then pass it on to people:

"We didn’t come up with AIDS Wolf as a concept. The idea has been floating around in the public psyche for a while. In urban legend, wolves transmit AIDS instead of rabies; in depressing college towns, street gangs spray-paint ‘AIDS Wolf’ on the side of buildings." {Link without Title}

The band has given other answers to similar questions, however:

"My partner and I were on a road trip in Ohio, and it just came to us. It was a universal message. It's a combination of our spirit peers in An Albatross (animal) and The Sick Lipstick (R.I.P.) (illness). It fits, because we're a little bit no–wave and a little bit hardcore, like each of those bands. It's also a message that we as humans must take care for our animal siblings as their health is a barometer of our own survival." {Link without Title}



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