'I was nervous,' Gowrie recalls of that meeting. It wasn't until a fated encounter in 2014, at a mutual friend's New Year's Eve party, that their orbits once again intersected. Wolfe advanced her solo career with records like The Grime and the Glow, Apokalypsis, Pain Is Beauty and Abyss, while Gowrie performed in various rock and sludge acts including, I'm Dirty Too, Happy Fangs and Horseneck. The nature of the split caused a serious rift between Wolfe and Gowrie, and for the next seven years the musicians had no contact with each other. 'I didn't have the life skills to do that in a cool way, so I just let it all build up and freaked out and was like, I gotta leave the band!' 'Looking back I would definitely do it in a different way,' she says. While the pair had a strong start in Red Host, inter-band tensions ultimately threw a wrench into the works and Wolfe abruptly quit the group. 'I was the only guitar player in the band, and she would be like, 'Why don't you play a lead or something?' She essentially helped me to become a good frontperson, which I took with me in my solo project after Red Host.' 'She was always encouraging me,' Wolfe recalls. She credits the drummer with turning her on to a lot of 90s bands that she initially missed (like Marilyn Manson and Queens of the Stone Age), and, maybe more importantly, helping her find the confidence to become a bandleader. Wolfe describes Red Host as her first 'serious' band and reveals working with Gowrie provided her with a couple key building blocks that would inform her later musical expressions. The young singer was still refining her craft and becoming frustrated with her 'writing style, lyrics and voice,' so she shifted focus and joined Gowrie in Red Host. The two had an instant musical connection, and Wolfe tapped the drummer to play on a few songs. To understand the project, you need to jump back to the mid-Aughts in Sacramento, California - and the meltdown of Wolfe's first band Red Host.īack then, Wolfe was in the early stages of getting her solo project off the ground, when she crossed paths with Gowrie. Like most interesting ventures, the path to Mrs. It's a raw, rich expression by two seasoned pros, one that couldn't have been created without the unwavering trust between these women - who have been through the shit, both individually and collectively, and come out the other side swinging. Piss' eight-song debut Self-Surgery - is an unflinching assault of gnarly, punky, Nineties-inspired heaviness, which finds Wolfe drawing from events in her and Gowrie's lives: from touring shenanigans ('Nobody Wants to Party With Us') to defiant fuck-yous to past lovers ('Knelt') to processing and shedding of deep-rooted self-hate ('Downer Surrounded By Uppers'). Do what you feel - as crazy, or not, as you want - and see what comes out.'

'We only had one rule: no rules,' says Gowrie of the duo's mission.

Piss is also the brainchild of her longtime friend and world-class drummer Jess Gowrie. Piss is a continuation of Wolfe's quest - a new vessel for her to explore previously tempered 'wild energies.' But this is not a solo excursion for the singer-songwriter. Piss " Downer Surrounded by Uppers" (Lyric Video) Her songs - alternately loud, soft, ecstatic and devastating - make up some of heavy music's most exciting releases in recent years, including the one-two punch of 2017's abrasive Hiss Spun and last year's folk-leaning Birth of Violence. Over the past decade, Wolfe has taken listeners on an enthralling sonic journey that reflects her own personal evolution: shining light on the dark corners of her individual and familial history, finding power by embracing her feminine and masculine energies, confronting inequalities and skewering misogyny. It's not always easy to be hella truthful about your own experiences.' It still kind of scares me, because I know that opens you up for judgement from people. As I've gotten older, I've become more comfortable being open. 'It was like, Keep it light, keep it quiet, keep it easy. 'I was raised to be very modest, and not talk about any of the dirty or any of my bad experiences,' she continues. 'But essentially, it's like married to the dirt, embracing and empowering your dirty or messy side as a woman and not shying away from that.' Piss is very abstract, and you can interpret it in different ways,' says Chelsea Wolfe of the concept behind her grungy, sludgy new side-project.

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