WOLFBRIGADE

Life Knife Death

CD



Formed in 1995 in the small Swedish city of Mariestad by key players from Sweden’s legendary hardcore scene, Wolfbrigade (known as Wolfpack until 1999) remain among Scandinavia’s most respected, influential and reliable purveyors of real-world brute-force hullabaloo. On this eleventh album, the niftiest skills honed to a fine edge over 30 years are dispatched with greater style and intensity than ever. Most immediately, there’s the sheer velocity and barely-controlled rage pumping through dynamic d-beaten blood-shakers like Ways To Die and Your God Is A Corpse, the furious attack assisted to heart-fluttering greatness by a newly loosened sense of raucous spontaneity. “We didn?t really rehearse any of the songs on this album,” the band reveals. “We tend to overwork and overanalyze everything that we do, and sometimes we get lost in that process. This time we wanted to go rough, to capture the raw essence of the song when it?s just out of the womb. All the blood and gore.” In a 2019 Bandcamp interview to promote Wolfbrigade’s last LP The Enemy: Reality, bassist Johan ErkenvÃ¥g observed that “the political climate in the world these past few years has been the worst that we?ve ever experienced in our lifetimes”. After half a decade of war, pestilence, catastrophe and terror, it’s as if the world heard Johan’s assertion and said, “hold my beer”. Mounting global chaos may have us all darkly fearing the end times, but it has also seemingly created the ideal circumstances for a hardcore punk LP as coruscatingly brutal as Wolfbrigade’s Life Knife Death.