MANILA, Philippines?Rock band Wolfgang will reunite after six years of dormancy in the Philippine music scene since their 2001 album ?Black Mantra? in a show where they would seem to pick up where they have left off??The Black Christmas Project,? at the Eastwood City Central Plaza on Dec. 10.

The band?s formidable core, which consists of vocalist Basti Artadi, guitarist Manuel Legarda and bassist Mon Legaspi, will again stun audiences with precision riffs, emphatic beats, power-drenched vocals, colorful licks, driving ostinatos, occasionally jazz-styled basslines and imaginative breaks that merge with razor-sharp interplay in their unique style of American-influenced hard rock, heavy metal, grunge and blues-rock. Joining them on drums is Monkeyspank drummer Francis Aquino.

Wolfgang is considered as one of the most awarded, best selling and influential Filipino rock bands of all time. It had releases in the United States, Australia, and Japan aside from the Philippines, where it dominated the rock scene from the mid-1990s to 2002.

Artadi received four Vocalist of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000), aside from the band?s Album of the Year plums for the double-platinum selling ?Semenelin? in 1996 and ?Serve in Silence? in 1999, from the NU 107 Rock Awards. Also, ex-band member Wolf Gemora had received two Drummer of the Year awards from the rock-oriented FM radio station (1996, 1997) for ?Semenelin? and the 1997 album ?Wurm.?

Wolfgang also reached platinum for its 1995 self-titled debut album and ?Wurm.?

After ?Black Mantra,? Artadi and Gemora left the band and migrated to the United States in 2002. During this time, Artadi joined the San Francisco-based rock group Kitaan. In 2003, Gemora then formed the band Lokomotiv with California-based bassist David Gonzales and guitarist James MacDonnell. Lokomotiv eventually enlisted Razorback guitarist David Aguirre and Artadi, who left the group in 2006 after cutting the band?s first album ?Rock N? Roll Death Toll.? Legaspi had also joined other bands, including The Dawn, while Legarda formed the group DRT, which he also left years back.

The ?Black Christmas Project? serves as Wolfgang?s first reunion since last year?s ?Alive 2007? concert with Razorback at the Music Museum, where they announced the band was working on their first studio album since 2001?s ?Black Mantra.? As a precursor to this much-awaited release are four tracks expected to be part of this upcoming sixth studio album?"Deathsquad," "Diaspora," "Enemy," and "John of the Cross"?that were made available through Yahoo! Philippines via digital download last year.

Not a few die-hard Wolfgang fans are expecting that the December concert may provide a fitting venue for the introduction of more tracks from the upcoming album, reportedly titled ?Villains,? if not the launch of the album itself.

But for Artadi, ?Expect lots of singing, dancing, drinking and all-around head-banging because it's gonna be a hell of a party!?

(Tickets are now on sale at Ticketnet (dial 911-555) or place reservations at ticketnet.com.ph.)