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Swedish prog-metallers Wolverine are celebrating a glorious return with their first studio album in a decade. Anomalies will be released on 6 February via Music Theories Recordings. It’s been a decade since the Söderhamn quintet last released a full album, 2016’s Machina Viva, and four years since their last EP, 2021’s A Darkened Sun, raised hopes that they were back with a vengeance. Today, singer Stefan Zell is brimming with enthusiasm, fired up by the knowledge that his band - the Machina Viva line-up of Jonas Jonsson (guitar), Thomas Jansson (bass), Marcus Losbjer (drums), and Per Henriksson (keyboards) are to release new music and a bold new album. Wolverine’s trials and tribulations to get to Anomalies have given Zell plenty of subject matter. So too has Wolverine evolved. From their earliest days toying with death metal sounds, before adding in a more progressive influence on 1999’s Fervent Dream EP, before setting themselves up as purveyors of the finest in melancholic prog metal, a flag they continue to carry aloft to this day.[info sheet from distr.]