Erik Wunder, the leader of the black metal band Cobalt and the dark folk rock group Man’s Gin, has died. The news was shared ...

Wunder was the multi-instrumentalist driving force behind the Colorado black metal band and his own gothic folk-rock project ...

We’re very shocked and saddened to hear reports that Cobalt and Man’s Gin leader Erik Wunder has passed away. Blake Judd of Nachtmystium and Ken Sorceron of Abigail Williams are among those who shared ...

Erik Wunder is probably best known as the instrumental genius behind Colorado-born black-metal duo Cobalt, whose now-decade-old career has produced three increasingly brilliant LPs that redefined ...

Its successor, Slow Forever, amazingly dominates over Gin, a continuation of Cobalt’s renegade Americanization of extreme metal, with principal instrumentalist and songwriter Erik Wunder further ...

So it’s been more than unsavory for composer-instrumentalist Erik Wunder to hatch a follow-up to Gin; it’s been frustrating and slow. And all the while, fans exert steady quanta of pressure as they ...

Erik Wunder's band Man's Gin maintains the tangible rawness of his black-metal band Cobalt and powers it through a ramshackle Americana sound not often heard since the days of 16 Horsepower.

Erik Wunder: It was definitely a gut-wrenching thing when all that happened, because we were really getting back into the mindset of creating again at the time. And then he just dropped the ball.

Remaining member Erik Wunder then picked things back up again with Lord Mantis’ Charlie Fell on vocals and back in March they put out Slow Forever, which remains one of the best albums of 2016 ...

Erik Wunder — best known as the mastermind behind the genre-defying acts Cobalt and Man’s Gin — has died at the age of 42.