Artist · chart history
Bad Wolves
Band Los Angeles United States Formed 2017
Bad Wolves formed in 2017 in Los Angeles, United States. Bad Wolves has 26 chart appearances on 18 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 2018–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Zombie”, which appears on 8 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Bad Wolves most often is 98KUPD (Phoenix, AZ), with 10 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2018.
Bad Wolves came together in Los Angeles in 2017 and made their name with somebody else's song. Their first single was a cover of the Cranberries' 1994 hit "Zombie", reworked into a thundering metal anthem that kept the melody's ache and added a wall of distortion behind it, and it gave the new band a flying start.
The lineup was built for weight: Tommy Vext on lead vocals, John Boecklin on drums, Doc Coyle and Chris Cain on guitars, and Kyle Konkiel on bass, with Eleven Seven Music behind them. Disobey arrived in 2018 with "Hear Me Now", and the band kept proving the cover was no fluke, as "Remember When", "Killing Me Slowly" and "Sober" all went to the top of the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. Their sound is alternative metal with groove-metal muscle: big, chugging riffs under choruses meant for arenas.
N.A.T.I.O.N. followed in 2019. Vext left in January 2021 and Daniel "DL" Laskiewicz took over; Dear Monsters, home of the brooding "Lifeline", came out that year, and Die About It in 2023. The shuffling hasn't stopped since: with Derek Bolman on bass and Sara "Killboy" Skinner the new voice, Boecklin is the last original member left as they work on a fifth album.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Bad Wolves on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zombie | 8 | #1 | 1 | 2018 | |
| 2 | Hear Me Now | 4 | #14 | – | 2018 | |
| 3 | Learn To Walk Again | 3 | #21 | – | 2020 | |
| 4 | Lifeline | 3 | #18 | – | 2021 | |
| 5 | Killing Me Slowly | 2 | #22 | – | 2020 | |
| 6 | Remember When | 1 | #2 | – | 2019 | |
| 7 | Legends Never Die | 1 | #9 | – | 2024 | |
| 8 | Sober | 2 | #9 | – | 2020 | |
| 9 | If Tomorrow Never Comes | 1 | #18 | – | 2022 | |
| 10 | Zombies | 1 | #22 | – | 2018 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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