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Chelsea Wolfe is an American singer-songwriter and musician born on November 14, 1983. Her work combines elements of gothic rock, doom metal, and folk. She grew up in Northern California with a father who was a country musician. Wolfe began writing and recording songs during her childhood. She gained recognition for her albums The Grime and the Glow (2010) and Apokalypsis (2011), which incorporated gothic and folk influences. Her subsequent albums Pain Is Beauty (2013), Abyss (2015), and Hiss Spun (2017) included elements of neofolk, electronic music, and heavy metal. Her later albums Birth of Violence (2019) and She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She (2024) continued her musical evolution. Wolfe has collaborated with the band Converge on the album Bloodmoon: I (2021) and with composer Tyler Bates on the soundtrack for the 2022 film X. She has also appeared on songs by artists such as Russian Circles, Deafheaven, Myrkur, and Xiu Xiu.