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) remains among Scandinavia’s most respected, influential and reliable purveyors of real-world, brute-force, political hardcore punk.

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. The quintet defines their main driving force as “the eternal quest for the ultimate song. We constantly explore the space we can create for progression within our pretty slim framework. Even though our personal tastes are very eclectic, we want to stay true to the WOLFBRIGADE core, but at the same time apply as much pressure as we can to push it further. We’ll mix any influences that we please. War on rules. That has been the concept since the very start of Wolfpack.”

In celebration of their 30th anniversary, WOLFBRIGADE delivers Hostile Wasteland, an EP with a ferocious raw mix originally recorded in 2000 at the legendary Sunlight Studios, while they still went under the name Wolfpack. In addition, they unleash Kill to Live, an album of special live renditions of classic tracks, recorded in 2025 in the band’s own Wolfden Studio.

The band comments, “Over the years we have talked about releasing the last recording we did under the name Wolfpack to present it the way it was originally intended. Until now, it has remained more or less buried, only surfacing as bonus tracks on a few limited releases. As we celebrate the band’s 30th anniversary, we went through our archives and unearthed a stack of old DAT tapes which we transferred to digital. Among them we found this raw mix that sounded great. Bloodfilled and savage. And it felt like the right moment to finally give it a proper release.

“When we started out, we were five guys from different punk and metal bands who came together. The fusion of d-beat, punk, and death metal came naturally. That this hybrid beast is still alive three decades later feels insane. And at the same time inevitable. The band has burned itself into our DNA. Over the years some songs turned into staples in our live sets, others never really came out the way we wanted on the recordings, some changed shape with time, some we almost forgot. When we finally had proper recording possibilities in our rehearsal space, our guitarist Jocke Rydbjer’s own Wolfden Studio, we thought: ‘Why not give these songs another chance? Record them live, document how we actually sound as one. Five friends in a room. Nothing polished. Nothing dressed. Just naked to the bare arse.’ This is Lycanthro Punk 2025. Since 1995.”

Watch a visualizer for the track “Hostile Wasteland” HERE and “Enter The Gates” HERE.

Both Hostile Wasteland and Kill to Live are available now digitally at: metalblade.com/wolfbrigade

Hostile Wasteland Track Listing:

1. Hostile Wasteland
2. Living in Vain
3. Global Lunacy
4. Day After Day

Kill to Live (Recorded Live at Wolfden Studio) Track Listing:

1. March of the Wolves (Originally Found On Wolfpack – Lycanthro Punk, 1998)
2. Power and Greed (Originally Found On Wolfpack – Allday Hell, 1999)
3. No Heart Bleeds (Originally Found On Wolfbrigade – In Darkness You Feel No Regrets, 2003)
4. Road to Dreams (Originally Found On Wolfbrigade – Damned, 2012)
5. Mindprowler (Originally Found On Wolfbrigade – Prey To The World, 2007)
6. Enter the Gates (Originally Found On Wolfpack – A New Dawn Fades, 1996)
7. Bastards (Originally Found On Wolfpack – Allday Hell, 1999)
8. In Darkness You Feel No Regrets (Originally Found On Wolfbrigade – In Darkness You Feel No Regrets, 2003)
9. No Future (Originally Found On Wolfpack – Allday Hell, 1999)
10. Barren Dreams (Originally Found On Wolfbrigade – Comalive, 2008)

WOLFBRIGADE 30th Anniversary Show:
10/18/2025 Kollektivet Live – Stockholm, SE w/ Skitsystem, Paranoid

WOLFBRIGADE Lineup:
Micke Dahl – vocals
Erik Norberg – guitar
Jocke Rydbjer – guitar
Johan Erkenvåg – bass
Dadde Stark – drums

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Swedish hardcore punk icons WOLFBRIGADE today 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.”

Stream WOLFBRIGADE‘s “Life Knife Death“ at THIS LOCATION.

Stream WOLFBRIGADE‘s previously released single, “Disarm Or Be Destroyed,” at THIS LOCATION.

In a 2019 Bandcamp interview to promote their last LP, The Enemy: Reality, WOLFBRIGADE bassist Johan Erkenvåg 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 Erkenvåg’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.

“Well yeah, who could’ve known! The five years that have passed since our last album have served as a pretty good backdrop for a new punk record or misanthropy in general,” affirms the band, adding a wry reference for the Bill Hicks fans, “Mankind – a virus with shoes. As always, our lyrics are fueled by the ever-growing disgust we feel about humanity. The everyday realization that we are a part of this fear-animalistic stupidity that drives the world further into oblivion. The inspiration just keeps raining down from the sky, killing the masses. Waking up to this every day makes us want to scream in horror.”

Find album pre-orders at: metalblade.com/wolfbrigade

WOLFBRIGADE:
Micke Dahl – vocals
Erik Norberg – guitar
Jocke Rydbjer – guitar
Johan Erkenvåg – bass
Tommy Storback – drums

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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.”

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.” “I just thought of that song title, which is genius on its own, and ‘Of An Arse’ just popped into my head. Beatles churned through the WOLFBRIGADE mill, the horror of waking up to another day, playing your part in the never ending shitscene of mankind.“

In a 2019 Bandcamp interview to promote WOLFBRIGADE‘s last LP, The Enemy: Reality, bassist Johan Erkenvåg 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 Erkenvåg’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.

“Well yeah, who could’ve known! The five years that have passed since our last album have served as a pretty good backdrop for a new punk record or misanthropy in general,” affirms the band, adding a wry reference for the Bill Hicks fans, “Mankind – a virus with shoes. As always, our lyrics are fueled by the ever-growing disgust we feel about humanity. The everyday realization that we are a part of this fear-animalistic stupidity that drives the world further into oblivion. The inspiration just keeps raining down from the sky, killing the masses. Waking up to this every day makes us want to scream in horror.“

In advance of the release of Life Knife Death, today the band unleashes first single, “Disarm Or Be Destroyed” noting of the track, “This is a song about the ugliness of desire and the beauty of destruction. The urge to burn and destroy is also an urge to create and evolve. Right or wrong, there’s pleasure in smashing some things into pieces.“

Stream WOLFBRIGADE‘s “Disarm Or Be Destroyed” at THIS LOCATION.

Find pre-orders at: metalblade.com/wolfbrigade

Life Knife Death Track Listing:
01. Ways to Die
02. Disarm or Be Destroyed
03. Life Knife Death
04. A Day in the Life of an Arse
05. Unruled and Unnamed
06. Skinchanger
07. Your God Is a Corpse
08. Nail Bomb
09. Cyanide Messiah
10. Mayhem Mongrel
11. Sea of Rust
12. Age of Skull Fuckery

WOLFBRIGADE:
Micke Dahl – vocals
Erik Norberg – guitar
Jocke Rydbjer – guitar
Johan Erkenvåg – bass
Tommy Storback – drums

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