On Swedish hardcore punk icons WOLFBRIGADE’s 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.”
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