In a 2019 Bandcamp interview to promote Wolfbrigade’s last LP The Enemy: Reality, bassist Johan Erkenv\u00e5g 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n