Wolfbrigade - Life Knife Death

Swedish hardcore punk icons and recent Metal Blade signees WOLFBRIGADE will release their eleventh full-length studio offering, Life Knife Death, on September 13th via Metal Blade Records.

Formed in 1995 in the small Swedish city of Mariestad by key players from Sweden’s legendary hardcore scene, WOLFBRIGADE — previously known as Wolfpack until 1999 — stands among Scandinavia’s most respected, influential, and reliable purveyors of real-world brute-force tumult.

On their crushing Life Knife Death, thirty years of skill are honed to a fine edge and dispatched with greater style and intensity than ever before. 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.”

WOLFBRIGADE‘s penchant for focused self-reflection aided them most satisfyingly in the arrangement and sequencing of these twelve killer tunes. The subtle shades of melody and versatility throughout Life Knife Death represents another of WOLFBRIGADE‘s strongest suits, the songs progressing with an organic, complementary flow, from the epic guitar heroics opening “Unruled And Unnamed” to the spooky churning outro “The Age Of Skull Fuckery.”