Chelsea WolfeChelsea Wolfe writes songs that sound like they could be soundtracking a dystopian universe or the end times, so a zombie apocalypse doesn’t sound too far off.
In fact, the American goth music icon recently revealed that one of her biggest hits, one that’s been used in numerous forms of entertainment, was originally written for The Walking Dead, but the AMC hit series “didn’t use it.”
She shared the revelation in a new interview with The Music. “Funnily enough, I was actually asked to write a song for The Walking Dead ages ago, and I wrote Survive [from 2015’s Abyss], and then they didn’t use it,” Wolfe said.
“But it went on to be one of my most used songs in other TV shows and things, so I feel like that sort of interplay between visuals and songwriting is a really cool thing.”
Further discussing her relationship with television and film, Wolfe continued, “I just love doing that, honestly. I love working with a prompt. Even the song Seethe on this new record—I actually thought I was being asked to write a song for a TV show—I misread an email, and so I wrote that song.”
“It was a song I was kind of working on anyway, but I wrote it thinking, ‘Oh, this could be the opening credits of a TV show or something,’ so I really enjoy that sort of like push and pull. And the [unreleased] song Halo, I wrote after watching the first season of The Last of Us.
“I wrote that about the father-daughter style relationship in that show, so I’m definitely influenced a lot by film and TV and writing, yeah.”
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Chelsea Wolfe is promoting her new album, The Dark, which lands on digital services tomorrow (21 August), followed by a physical release on Friday, 18 September, via Loma Vista Recordings.
So far, she’s unveiled four singles: Death is Not the End, Cold, Seethe, and the title track. The Dark is a career-spanning triumph from Wolfe, which explores her many avenues in music, including metal, folk, acoustic, and electronica. You can pre-order/pre-save the album here.
