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Wolf Culture (often stylised as WOLF CULTURE) are a British Alternative Rock band from the South of England. Formed in 2015, the band currently consists of lead vocalist/guitarist Max Dervan, guitarist Jay Dervan, bassist Reece Collins and drummer Jake Daniels.

The band released their debut EP "The Devil's Plans for Idle Hands" in May 2018 via LA-based record label Common Ground Collective and have since gone on to tour the UK and Europe with shows alongside notable acts such as Roam, Boston Manor, Tonight Alive and Jamie Lenman.

2015-2017: Formation and Demos
Guitarist Jay Dervan and drummer Jake Daniels began playing with each other at a music college they both attended and soon become close friends after discovering a similar taste in music. After becoming dissatisfied with their respective extra-curricular projects, they decided to break-off and start a band of their own. The foundations for the band were laid after the two recruited Jay's younger brother, Max Dervan, who joined at the age of 15 to provide lead vocals, additional guitar and assume the band's song-writing duties.

In April of 2015, the band would record a cover of "Dial Tones", originally by the then Brighton-based band As It Is, in the brothers' living room and uploaded it to YouTube under the band name "City Bound". Within weeks this video reached over 20,000 views along with many positive comments of support. Not long after, the trio released a demo of their first original song called "Overboard" to YouTube with a visualiser. The band's early influences can be clearly heard on this demo with characteristics of modern pop-punk and emo.

In the months following these minor releases, the band began to see their first show offers coming in. In 2016, the trio was joined by bassist Josh Halbert and quickly established themselves on the UK punk scene under the new name of "Wolf Culture".

2017-2019: Signing, "The Devil's Plans for Idle Hands" EP and Touring
At the beginning of 2018, Wolf Culture announced their signing to the Los Angeles-based independent record label "Common Ground Records", now known as "Common Ground Collective". Shortly after, they released their first single "Wreck" with an accompanying music video which gathered momentum for the band after premiering on Alternative Press. "Continents", the band's second single, was then released after its music video premiering on Punktastic and the band announced that they would be releasing their debut 4-track EP entitled "The Devil's Plans for Idle Hands" in May of that year.

The EP was positively received with glowing reviews from Rock Sound as well as Kerrang! Magazine which had Wolf Culture feature in 3 consecutive issues as well as being immortalised in it’s long-running ‘Pandora’ comic strip which saw the character mockingly suggest that the band had left a blue sock in with their laundry due to the members all wearing the same light blue t-shirts in their promotional material.

The "Devil's Plans..." era featured heavy use of the band's baby pink and baby blue aesthetic in all its promotional materials including music videos, album artwork, merchandise and band photoshoots. This was true of their live shows as well, where the band would consistently be dressed in matching pink/blue attire and have the stage decorated with flowers in keeping with EP artwork.

Following the success of the EP release, the band were invited to tour the UK with the British Pop-Punk band Roam alongside Milestones on an "Intimate Tour" throughout the summer that featured a number of lower-cap venues around Britain. This saw Wolf Culture sell out their first hometown show at the Anvil Rockbar in Bournemouth.

In October, the band would embark on a co-headline tour of the UK to further promote the EP with labelmates, SHADED.

To close out the year, the band then joined the Australian rock band Tonight Alive on their 10th Anniversary UK/EU tour, supporting alongside Jamie Lenman. This tour saw Wolf Culture play their biggest shows to date, their first shows outside of the UK and their first sold out acoustic performance which was Bush Hall, London after being asked to perform by the headliner.

2019-2020: Line-up Changes and "Dying in the Living Room" EP
The band announced via Facebook that they had amicably parted ways with bassist Josh Halbert on the 31st December 2018 and he has since gone on to perform with his new heavier project "Burden Bearer".

On May 4th of 2019, the band performed for the first time with their new bassist Reece Collins at Teddy Rocks Festival after holding auditions to fill the vacancy. The day after Teddy Rocks, they went into the studio with producer Neil Kennedy of The Ranch Productions to record a 6 song EP that they had been demoing since 2018. Unlike their debut, the band crafted these songs differently and without necessarily being in the practice room with each other, due to busy schedules. The focus was to write organically as opposed to writing for the Pop Punk circuit that they had catered for previously. This also saw Max Dervan collaborate while song-writing with an outside source in the form of Alex Adam of ROAM.

On December 9th 2019, "spite" was released as a single via Common Ground Collective and premiered on Substream Magazine along with an accompanying music video that was co-directed by Jay Dervan and touring photographer Nathan Roach.

After releasing a second single called "nervous" at the end of May 2020, along with a music video, it was announced that they would be releasing their sophomore EP in the coming months.

The "Dying in the Living Room" EP was released July 31st 2020 via Common Ground Collective. The band's sophomore release was met with praise, with critics noting the band's maturing style and words such as "gritty", "grungy" and "contagiously-catchy" being used to describe the new tracks. The EP also featured the song "ultimatum" which featured guest vocals by Kellin Quinn of Sleeping with Sirens.

The band was set to tour the UK with Palmist in April of 2020 to promote the EP however were forced to cancel due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown restrictions that ensued.