Swedish prog rock quintet Wolverine have introduced their first new studio album for a decade.
The band have signed with Music Theories Recordings and can launch their new studio album, Anomalies, on February 6. The band have additionally shared the primary new music from the nine-track Anomalies – you possibly can take heed to the brooding A Good Alignment under.
“That is really the primary a part of a trilogy of songs on the album,” explains vocalist Stefan Zell of the brand new observe. “The second half being Circuit and the third being the album’s opening observe A Sudden Demise.”
“The preliminary seed to this music originates possibly about 20 years again, written for a deliberate idea album that by no means noticed the sunshine of day,” provides drummer Marcus Losbjer. “It incorporates a number of elements based mostly round 5/4, which align collectively in the long run.”
The Swedish band appeared on the verge of main success on the again of albums such because the revered Nonetheless (2006) and Communication Misplaced (2011). They signed to US label Laser’s Edge and launched Machina Viva in 2016, and an EP, A Darkened Solar in 2021, however there’s been little motion from the band, till now.
“I believe that, in a approach, one thing that runs by the album is getting older,” Zell contemplates. “I didn’t know the place I used to be going. What ought to I do that can bear that means sooner or later? Feeling misplaced. That could be a theme in a approach that runs by a number of songs. I’m completely satisfied to say that I’m in a greater place as we speak, eight years later.”
“I take a look at all our songs as small snippets of a diary. For those who look again by {the catalogue}, it’s my life as a author. It’s so superb to have these snippets of time documented on this approach. However I actually really feel that there are much more questions requested about life, ageing, and values. It’s nothing we even considered once we have been in our 20s. It evolves.”
Wolverine: Anomalies
1 – A Sudden Demise
2 – My Solitary Foe
3 – Circuits
4 – Dusk
5 – This World And All Its Dazzling Lights
6 – Automaton
7 – A Good Alignment
8 – Shedding Sport
9 – Scarlet Tide