Swedish hardcore punk icons Wolfbrigade unleash the title track of their upcoming new full-length, “Life Knife Death”, set for release on September 13th via Metal Blade Records.
Forged 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 “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. The band’s disparate influences are drawn together with unifying solidity – the remorseless rhythms of Discharge, the blue-collar rock ‘n’ roll of Motörhead, the heads-down bludgeon of classic Entombed – even the Beatles get a look in, albeit in subverted form, with the splendid title “A Day In The Life Of An Arse”.
Comments the band on the track, “Life Knife Death”:
“Mankind casts a long shadow of bloodshed and brutality. From a whack on the head with a mammoth’s thigh bone to a drone strike against a children’s hospital. Life’s gonna life, human’s gonna knife.”
Photo by Therese Öhrvall
