Gnarwolves

After brothers Thom and Max Weeks concluded their hardcore project Kasa, the siblings established Gnarwolves in Brighton during 2011 when they connected with Charlie Piper, a fellow Cornishman and former Rasputin participant who had advertised on Facebook his desire to form a fresh group. Shared passions for skateboarding, gruff punk, and partying shaped the band’s aesthetic, and as their D.I.Y. performances around Brighton gained local renown, the trio rapidly built a substantial audience. Their self-released cassette Fun Club surfaced in 2011, succeeded the following year by the vinyl-only CRU EP on Tangled Talk, which Big Scary Monsters later reissued on CD. While supporting acts such as the Wonder Years, the Story So Far, and Lower Than Atlantis across Europe in 2012 and also mounting their own headline dates, the band issued the Funemployed single through the German imprint Day by Day in mid-2013. Early in 2014, Pure Noise gathered the group’s prior material on the compilation The Chronicles of Gnarnia, at which point the trio revealed plans for their first full-length album later that same year. Following extensive touring and a subsequent three-year hiatus, Gnarwolves reentered the studio and delivered their second album, Outsiders, in 2017.