Chelsea Wolfe  Chelsea Joy Wolfe (born November 14, 1983) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Her work has blended elements of gothic rock, doom metal, and folk music. Raised in Northern California with a country musician father, Wolfe began writing and recording songs during her childhood. She earned underground critical acclaim for her releases, "The Grime and the Glow" (2010) and "Apokalypsis" (2011), which blended gothic and folk elements, as well as her following albums, "Pain Is Beauty" (2013), "Abyss" (2015), and "Hiss Spun" (2017), in which Wolfe incorporated elements of neofolk, electronic and heavy metal. Chelsea Wolfe was born in Roseville, California, She is of Norwegian and German descent. She was raised in Roseville and Sacramento. Her father was in a country band and owned a home studio. By the age of 7, she had written her first poem and by the age of 9, had written and recorded songs which she later described as "basically Casio-based gothy R&B songs". Of her childhood, Wolfe said, "I grew up pretty fast. I had older sisters. By the time I was 11, I was drinking 40s." She also struggled with sleep paralysis as a child and through her teens, which landed her in the hospital for sleep studies; these experiences eventually became material for her albums "Abyss" and "Hiss Spun". Wolfe lived with her grandmother during a part of her childhood, who taught her about aromatherapy, Reiki and "other realms". In 2006 Wolfe composed an album, titled "Mistake in Parting", which was never officially released. Of the album, Wolfe said: "I was 21 years old and wrote a shitty singer-songwriter breakup album. I didn't even really want to be a musician back then, but a lot of my friends were like 'let's do this, I've got some producer friends' and they helped me make this over-produced, terrible record... I sort of took a break from music for a while since I wasn't happy with what I was making". Wolfe later commented that she scrapped the album largely because it had been written about events in her personal life: "I was writing really personal stuff about my own life, and I didn't feel comfortable at all... I didn't want [my music] to be so much about myself, and I just had to find a new perspective".