Due to the ongoing pandemic and continued border restrictions for international travel, we have had to reschedule the upcoming Chelsea Wolfe & Emma Ruth Rundle Australian & New Zealand tour for 2022. 

All tickets will be valid for the new dates and refunds will be available for your point of purchase for anyone who can’t make the rescheduled dates. 

For those concerned, we considered all options to make these shows happen, including the extensive hotel quarantine requirements for international performers & crew. However the costs of these would make the tour unviable for all involved. We also did not feel it was appropriate to seek special consideration for visas and travel when there are still so many people waiting for flights to return home to Australia and New Zealand. Added to this, the uncertainty over limited venue capacities, snap lockdowns and border closures (at least until the vaccination program is complete) is a major financial risk that we can’t afford to take. 

The good and great news is that both Chelsea and Emma are still committed to this tour and we have rescheduled all of the originally planned dates. By the time this tour rolls around it will have been a full 10 years since Chelsea’s last Australian tour and still remains Emma’s first ever visit to our shores. It’s going to be worth the wait to be able to celebrate these legendary artists in happier times. 

Thanks again for your understanding & patience. Full dates and details will be announced very soon.

A selection of female-fronted heavy rock, metal and noise handpicked by American songwriter Chelsea Wolfe. Chelsea’s own music blends elements of gothic rock, doom metal, and folk music into haunting and atmospheric songs. Featuring radical and wondrous vocals from Karina Utomo and her group High Tension, Lingua Ignota brings out the desperation in the lyrics to Dolly Parton’s Jolene with a slowed down version accompanied by crunchy guitar arpeggios and there’s heavy riffs and catchy melodies from Dallas’ True Widow.

March 11th at midnight UK time, 1AM CET on BBC Radio 6.

Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000szd2

Chelsea Wolfe has shared new video for her latest single, “Anhedonia” which features vocals and guitar by labelmate Emma Ruth Rundle. Wolfe joined efforts with stop motion editor and video producer Cressa Beer for a moving creation that reflects grief and loneliness, yet brings hope that with time and support, healing is possible.  

Cressa explains, “The core idea of the video came from an artist and mutual friend that Chelsea and I both love – Jess Schnabel (Blood Milk Jewels) – who created a ‘grief moth’ inspired by real moths that drink the tears of sleeping birds. It’s an idea I’ve wanted to animate for a while. So, that became the backbone of the project: the lifecycle of a moth literally born from overwhelming sadness. From there, the video grew into a reflection of what I was experiencing during quarantine, as I found myself confronting my own grief and deeply rooted trauma.  I suffer from PTSD that envelops me like a black void. I wanted to visually articulate how that feels, as well as feelings like disassociation and loneliness; the way that trauma can physically alter your body and mentally reshape the world around you.  But still, the moth can fight its way out, can fly, can follow the light; just like the comfort in the final verse of the song, I wanted to still show that healing is possible.”  

“Anhedonia” was mixed / produced by Ben Chisholm and is available now across all digital retailers via Sargent House. 

Watch/ Listen / Buy: https://smarturl.it/CW-ERR_Anhedonia

Chelsea Wolfe has released her gripping and reflective new single “Anhedonia”, which features guest vocals and guitar from labelmate Emma Ruth Rundle and was mixed by Ben Chisholm. “Anhedonia” is available across all digital retailers today via Sargent House. Listen and share HERE

Of the single, Wolfe reveals, “I wrote Anhedonia after I experienced it during summer of 2019, then tucked the song away and moved forward with my acoustic album and subsequent North American tour. When COVID-19 hit and stay-at-home orders began in 2020, my European tour was canceled and I had to fly home. Restless, I started listening through my archives of unfinished songs and little unused ideas. When I heard Anhedonia again, it hit me how strangely relevant the lyrics felt to current times. I’d been wanting to work on a song with Emma for a long time, so I recorded it and sent it her way. She graciously added her gorgeous vocals and lead guitar, and then Ben mixed it, adding his signature sound landscape as a fortress around the song. As I listened back to the final version, I was finally able to set free those emotions which I couldn’t feel back in 2019. I had worries around releasing the song, not wanting to romanticize the condition of anhedonia (the inability to feel pleasure), but I also understood that it could possibly be cathartic for others who are struggling, as it was for me, to sing and dance my way out of a depression.”  

Rundle adds, “I was moved to tears when she sent me Anhedonia, which made getting through the tracking very emotional and slow on my end. I love the way the guitars I tracked morphed in Ben’s mix. The whole song swirls in a poignant eddy of sorrowful sound and still takes a hard swing at my heart hearing it now.” 
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To celebrate the release there’s a new t-shirt available for pre-order at Hello Merch in US / Evil Greed in EU/UK (both stores ship worldwide)

Soundscapes vol.36 / selected by @cchelseawwolfe 

“A special NYE selection by queen of doom Chelsea Wolfe to finally say farewell to this strange 2020. Digging beneath the mess of the world to find the beauty underneath.” – via NASTY Magazine

For more than a decade, musician Chelsea Wolfe has been carving her own path in the metal world with a number of albums that blend together black metal, folk, doom, and drone metal into entirely original endeavors, all of which defy distinction to one genre. Over the course of one record, Wolfe crafts experiences that are ethereal, evocative, and macabre, yet within this darkness also comes romance and hope. Not only has she earned hordes of passionate fans, but also collaborated with contemporary titans of metal, working with the likes of Converge, Russian Circles, and Deafheaven. 

It should come as no surprise, then, that Wolfe was enlisted into a DC Comics project as ambitious as her own music, contributing not only music for but also voicing Wonder Woman in Dark Nights: Death Metal – Sonic Metalverse. 

Running in conjunction with the DC Comics event Dark Nights: Death Metal, which unfolds across a number of titles, Sonic Metalverse is a series of shorts that bring the events from these various stories to life. Featuring music by Tyler Bates and the voices of members of Mastodon, Slayer, and Rise Against, the shorts unite the dark intensity of Dark Nights: Death Metal with prominent figures from the metal scene. 

ComicBook.com caught up with Wolfe to discuss her approach to embodying Diana Prince both vocally and musically, her picks for the “Justice League of Metal,” and how she can’t stop listening to The Witcher soundtrack.

Full interview HERE

“Many of our favorite heavy-music artists are also obsessive vinyl collectors. We’ve asked some of them to show us their most prized records, the variants they probably spent way too much money on and would run into a burning building to save: their “vinyl to die for.” Here, Chelsea Wolfe shows off her three most prized records, Wardruna’s Runaljod – Gap var ginnunga, Runaljod – Yggdrasil and Runaljod – Ragnarok, which make up the Norwegian folk band’s Runaljod trilogy. Get an up-close look. 

The self-titled debut album from Wolfe’s new band Mrs. Piss is out now. Shop for vinyl, including a selection of limited-edition Revolver-exclusive variants, via our store.”

– Revolver

Alan Sparhawk from Low helping cool bands unload and load their gear. In this episode of VANSPLAINING, Alan drinks peppermint tea and listens to Roy Orbison with Chelsea Wolfe and it is as special as it sounds.

Happy 5 years anniversary to Chelsea Wolfe‘s Abyss! To celebrate this release we’re going to repress Abyss in a new ‘silver/black’ vinyl limited edition (only 600 copies + download card with an inedited bonus track) along with a new long-sleeve designed by Ryan Patterson and the ‘Abyss World Tour’ t-shirt. Pre-orders now open at Hello Merch, EU/UK EVIL GREED. 

US store: https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/chelsea-wolfe 
EU store: smarturl.it/EGchelseawolfe

Fine artist Jesse Draxler’s collaborative project Reigning Cement is a conceptual audiovisual mindfuck. Draxler challenged 20-plus musicians, including Chelsea Wolfe, Greg Puciato (Dillinger Escape Plan, the Black Queen), Dylan Walker (Full of Hell) and Eric Ghoste (Ghostemane) “to create sound collages/songs using only 34 sonic assets I supplied, with one exception: that they may add vocals if they wanted.” The results range from experimental pop tunes to industrial noisescapes, all of which will be released via Federal Prisoner — the label co-founded by Draxler and Puciato — as a vinyl LP packaged with a 100-page printed zine filled with the visual artist’s images. 

So far, the artist has offered up VOWWS’ “Them” and Walker’s “Time reign cemenT,” the latter premiered by Revolver. Today (July 24th), he unveiled Wolfe’s track, which also includes contributions from her longtime collaborator Ben Chisholm. Titled “Valerian,” the haunting, experimental cut arrives paired with a mesmerizing, black-and-white music video created by Draxler. Watch and listen above, and check out the cover art and list of participating artists for Reigning Cement below. 

Reigning Cement quickly sold out of the initial 500 piece pressing, but a new 100-piece variant, featuring clear vinyl, is now available for order. A digital version of the audio element is available for pre-order, as well.

[via Revolver]