30 Facts About Chelsea Wolfe

Chelsea Joy Wolfe was born on November 14,1983 and is an American singer-songwriter and musician.

Chelsea Wolfe began to earn recognition for her albums The Grime and the Glow and Apokalypsis, which blended gothic and folk elements.

Chelsea Wolfe's evolution continued with Birth of Violence and She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She.

Chelsea Wolfe was born in Roseville, California, near Sacramento, and raised in both towns.

Chelsea Wolfe is of English, Norwegian, Swedish, and German descent.

Chelsea Wolfe's father was in a country band and owned a home studio.

Chelsea Wolfe lived with her grandmother during a part of her childhood, who taught her about aromatherapy, Reiki and "other realms".

In 2006, Chelsea Wolfe composed an album, titled Mistake in Parting, which was never officially released.

Chelsea Wolfe's 2010 cover of Burzum's "Black Spell of Destruction" helped her receive her first exposure after it was highlighted in a notable blog.

Chelsea Wolfe toured extensively in North America and Europe to support both albums, and suffered from extreme stage fright; when she initially began performing live, Chelsea Wolfe would wear a black veil over her face.

In 2012, Chelsea Wolfe covered five songs by British anarcho-punk band Rudimentary Peni, and issued them as A Tribute To Rudimentary Peni on February 17 as a free download via Pendu Sound.

Chelsea Wolfe later rerecorded the Peni songs with her band at Southern Studios in London, and released them as an EP, Prayer for the Unborn, in January 2013 on Southern Records.

Chelsea Wolfe signed with the label Sargent House in 2012 to release her third album.

Chelsea Wolfe released a live album, Live at Roadburn, on September 28,2012, recorded that April 12 at the Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Netherlands.

Chelsea Wolfe contributed guest vocals to the American post-metal band Russian Circles' fifth studio album, Memorial, released in October 2013.

Abyss featured Chelsea Wolfe exploring neofolk and electronic music and embracing more of her heavy metal influences.

Chelsea Wolfe toured in late 2017 to promote its release.

Chelsea Wolfe appeared in collaborations on the 2017 Myrkur album Mareridt and the 2018 Deafheaven album Ordinary Corrupt Human Love.

On June 18,2019, Chelsea Wolfe announced her sixth studio album, Birth of Violence and released the first single off the album, "The Mother Road".

In January 2021, Chelsea Wolfe chose to get sober and teamed up with Emma Ruth Rundle for the single "Anhedonia" released digitally via Chelsea Wolfe's Bandcamp store.

In March 2021, Chelsea Wolfe teamed with Xiu Xiu to cover the song "One Hundred Years" by The Cure for Xiu Xiu's duets album Oh No On May 26,2021, "Diana," a collaboration between Chelsea Wolfe, bandmates Ben Chisholm and Jess Gowrie, and Tyler Bates was released as a part of the Dark Nights: Death Metal soundtrack.

The project originated from a performance at the Netherlands' Roadburn Festival in 2016, where Chelsea Wolfe and Converge performed a set of reworked Converge songs under the moniker Blood Moon.

On September 20,2023, Chelsea Wolfe announced that she had signed with Loma Vista Recordings, and released her debut single with the label, "Dusk".

Chelsea Wolfe toured the album throughout the year, including appearances at European festivals including Roadburn, Primavera Sound and Hellfest.

Chelsea Wolfe accompanied the album with the Undone EP of remixes and the Unbound EP of acoustic versions.

On September 28,2021, Converge announced that the band and Chelsea Wolfe had collaborated again for the former's tenth studio album Bloodmoon: I, released on November 19,2021.

The soundtrack involved Chelsea Wolfe collaborating with composer Tyler Bates, and primary providing vocals for the synthesizer and 1970s-music inspired score.

Chelsea Wolfe composed her first two albums on her mother's classical guitar, which was missing a tuning peg; as a result, the strings had to be tuned down, which was a stylistic element carried on to the studio recordings.

Chelsea Wolfe frequently plays both a 1979 and 2014 Gibson ES-335, which she used while recording her album Hiss Spun.

Since 2011, Chelsea Wolfe has worked with New York-based costume designer and wardrobe stylist Jenni Hensler, whom she credits with helping her cultivate and develop her own original image.