Birth of Violence

AlbumSep 13 / 201912 songs, 43m 51s
Singer-Songwriter Gothic Country Dark Folk
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D+

Chelsea Wolfe's sixth LP rides in on a thunderous cloud of pagan bombast and departs with the soothing natural sound of a rainstorm.

5 / 10

8 / 10

An opus of elegant songcraft and terrible beauty

9.0 / 10

Because of Wolfe’s newfound ability to communicate so much more with less, you could call Birth of Violence a tour de force…

4 / 5

Chelsea Wolfe isolates and rediscovers herself on the haunting Birth Of Violence…

While Chelsea Wolfe's forays into electronic music and metal have frequently been thrilling, the aching beauty of her acoustic-based music remains special.

Leaving behind the dark distortion of Hiss Spun, Wolfe returns with a folk-rock record that's equally bursting with life.

8 / 10

Just in time for the fall season, Chelsea Wolfe's sixth studio album is the embodiment of those eerie foggy autumn nights. As an instrumenta...

‘This record shows that Wolfe is an enchantress and the High Priestess of her field amongst her peers’From the humble beginnings of From The Grime and The Glow; to the experimentation into darker planes in Apokalypsis; the oozing synth baths of Pain Is Beauty; and the subsequent forays into drone and doom metal as the embodiment of psychosis in her most recent offerings Abyss and Hiss Spun - Chelsea Wolfe has been sculpting a sound that is ever burgeoning, morphing, and expansive.

7.5 / 10

Birth of Violence is the second collection of acoustic songs for Chelsea Wolfe, who is carrying a decade of successful evolution.

8 / 10

So much of Chelsea Wolfe's repertoire has been based on her voice filtered through layers of eerie distortion and swallowed in dense waves of...

7.3 / 10

'Birth of Violence' by Chelsea Wolfe, album review by Mike Ollinger. the full-length comes out on July 13th via Sargent House Records

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4.1 / 5

Chelsea Wolfe - Birth of Violence review: Birth of Violence marks as a regressive, but still enjoyable, chapter in Chelsea Wolfe’s career.

7 / 10