History
The band had only been playing together for a short while when they recorded the album A New Dawn Fades and the CDEP Bloodstained Dreams. The records were released on the infamous Distortion Records label.
In April 1997 the band went into the studio again to record the Hellhound Warpig 7”, and in October they returned to Studio Fredman the Lycanthro Punk album that was released the year after.
Singer Tomas Jonsson’s habit of quitting the band came to an halt in 1998 when the band went on and hired their close friend Micke Dahl as their new vocalist. After some touring together with Disfear, Wolfpack soon went on to record the album Allday Hell together with the late Mieszko Talarczyk in Studio Soundlab, which was released in 1999.
In 2000 the band changed their name from Wolfpack to Wolfbrigade to avoid association with a Swedish neo-Nazi prison gang who shared that name. The band went on to record the more politically charged Progression/Regression album.
In 2002, drummer Frank left and was replaced by Dadde Stark. The album In Darkness You Feel No Regrets was released the following year.
The band decided to split up in 2004 because of lack of motivation and Micke needing surgery for vocal cord problems. Jocke, Erik, Dadde and Micke recorded the 12” A D-Beat Odyssey before the band did their ”last” gigs in Minneapolis and Chicago the same year.
Four of the members started a new band, Today's Overdose. A 7” EP was released under this name, and the music was influenced by American hardcore such as Poison Idea, mixed with the regular more Swedish approach. But gradually their live sets incorporated Wolfbrigade/Wolfpack songs. As a result the urge to write and play as Wolfbrigade became too strong, and 2006 they secretly started writing a new album.
On 7 January 2007, Wolfbrigade announced that they had reunited. Wolfbrigade imported bassist Johan Erkenvåg from Today's Overdose and released a comeback album, Prey to the World, in June 2007.
The band was soon back in the studio and during two sessions over 2008, the group recorded Comalive, released the following year.
Wolfbrigade went on a one-year hiatus from playing live in 2011 and then regrouped for the release of Damned in 2012. The record saw the band return back to their roots, both musically and production-wise, as they returned to Studio Fredman. With this album the band started to get offers from bigger metal festivals, like Hellfest for example. Pitchfork Media praised the Damned album and described them as combining crust punk and melodic death metal in a manner similar to Disfear. [4]
The band saw another lineup change in 2015 when Dadde decided to leave and Tommy Storback was recruited as their new drummer. [3] The group’s next effort was Run with the Hunted released in 2017.
Never really happy with the mix of Comalive the band decided to re-issue that album for its 10 year anniversary with a long list raw mix, mastered by Jocke at his own Wolfden Studio.
In the fall of 2019 the band released The Enemy: Reality through Southern Lord Records.They released an EP, Anti-Tank Dogs, on August 12, 2022. [5]
In 2024 the band signed with Metal Blade Records and released the album Life Knife Death. The band parted ways with Tommy and Dadde once again returned at the drum throne.
To celebrate their 30 year anniversary the band decided to do a live-in-the-studio recording at Wolfden Studio. The 10 live renditions became Kill to Live, the first release on the bands own Lycanthro Releases. In addition the group also uncovered Hostile Wasteland, an old Sunlight Studio recording from 2000 under the name Wolfpack. Both records was exclusively released on October 18 at their anniversary show in Stockholm.
