WOLFBRIGADE Drops “Ways To Die” Video; Life Knife Death Full-Length Out Now On Metal Blade Records

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Swedish hardcore punk veterans WOLFBRIGADE have unleashed a video for “Ways To Die.” The punishing new track comes by way of the band’s long-awaited Life Knife Death full-length, out now on Metal Blade Records!

Comments the band, “This is a little gem about the human creativity when it comes to ways of punishing and killing each other in the most terrible ways. Take the sadistic practice of ‘rat torture’ for instance, involving strapping a bucket full of rats to a victim’s naked torso. The bucket is then heated from the outside. The rodents chew their way into the very bowels of the victim in an attempt to escape the heat. All the way through the doomed person’s flesh, and any organs it happens to encounter on its way to freedom. No living being is meant to be caged.”

The video for the track was directed by MeANkind with director of photography and editor Jacob Frössén.

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.

Writes Distorted Sound in part, “The band remain a towering monument to an almost swaggering brutality; death metal elements adorning the already bloody hardcore jacket are tokens of successful rampages in years’ past on proud display. Be that through the sheer audio thuggery of ‘Ways To Die’ or the anatomy-altering bombast of ‘Unruled And Unnamed,’ there is heaviness here that will punch holes through even the most vinegar-soaked critics.” Adds Rock Hard Germany, “With an aggressive energy that is unparalleled in the genre cosmos, the collective around singer Micke Dahl once again becomes the mouthpiece of the contemporary anger that drives us all every day and can be catalyzed here for at least half an hour. If you also like the cover artwork of Celtic Frost’s Morbid Tales, you will be hooked on Life Knife Death for that reason alone.”

Life Knife Death is out now on CD and digital formats as well as vinyl in the following color variants:

White (US)

180g Black (EU)

Orange Marbled (EU – Ltd. 1000)

180g Black (EU – Ltd. 500)

Dark Grey Marbled (EU – Ltd. 500)

Clear w/ Red/White splatter (EU – Sound Pollution Exclusive Ltd. 200)

Orange w/ Red Splatter (EU – Evil Greed Exclusive Ltd. 300)

Orange/Black Dust Splatter (EU – 200)

Orange/Black Split (EU – TNOR Exclusive – 200)

Find orders at: metalblade.com/wolfbrigade.

“With an aggressive energy that is unparalleled in the genre cosmos, the collective around singer Micke Dahl once again becomes the mouthpiece of the contemporary anger that drives us all every day and can be catalyzed here for at least half an hour. If you also like the cover artwork of Celtic Frost’s Morbid Tales, you will be hooked on Life Knife Death for that reason alone.” – Rock Hard Germany

“…like being nailed to the front of a runaway freight train, but louder.” –  Blabbermouth

“It boils over with the sort of fury that needs to be channeled directly into ears, proving if nothing else that the band are still fully dialed in and ready at a moment’s notice. If punk is perennial, WOLFBRIGADE continues to be fertile soil to breed new shoots on this evidence.” – Distorted Sound

“…another notch in the bedpost of a band that just keeps on giving. If anything, this band just keep on getting stronger and stronger with each successive release.” –  Nine Circles

“…one heck of a ripping twenty-eight minutes of harcore punk rock.” –  Last Rites

“Life Knife Death is unrelenting. This is old-school hardcore with modern misanthropy. There aren’t many breakdowns because that would require the band to slow down. Instead, we are treated to an onslaught of riffs, solos, and scathing social commentary.” –  Metal Digest

“Whether it is the crazed d-beat fury of tracks like ‘Disarm Or Destroy,’ the brilliantly titled ‘A Day In The Life Of An Arse,’ or the groovy dirty crust ‘n’ roll of the title track which has me rasping ‘Tombstones, In rows’ like a grinning loon, this album bleeds pure attitude… loud, angry, rock and fucking roll.” –  Ave Noctum

“…bone-breaking speed and power in concentrated music form…” – Rebel Extravaganza

“…still raw and confrontational but also eclectic in a way that separates them from the usual d-beat band hitting the distortion with a death metal guitar pedal.” – Mystification ‘Zine

“Twelve songs of pure aggression and forcefulness… a huge album, with few flaws to be found.” – Queen Of Steel

WOLFBRIGADE:

Micke Dahl – vocals

Erik Norberg – guitar

Jocke Rydbjer – guitar

Johan Erkenvåg – bass

Tommy Storback – drums

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