Swedish hardcore band Wolfbrigade is celebrating 30 years as a band, both with a new EP called Hostile Wasteland, originally reocrded in 2000, plus Kill to Live, plus a live album -- both out digitally via Metal Blade Records. Kill To Live collects live recordings of band favorites, recorded this year in their Wolfden Studio.
The band says:
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.
They originally wend by the name Wolfpack until 1999.
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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
