PROPHECY PRODUCTIONS RELEASES ‘DUSK IN AMERICA’ COMP AHEAD OF PROPHECY FEST USA

August 10, 2018 – Los Angeles, CA – In celebration of their recent expansion in the USA, Prophecy Productions has released a new compilation today called Dusk In America, which showcases North American bands on the label. The collection features music rising and notable bands like Khôrada, Xasthur, 1476, Finnr’s Cane and more.

Dusk In America is now available at BandCamp to stream and purchase at a “name your own price.” https://prophecy-de.bandcamp.com/album/dusk-in-america

Dusk In America Tracklisting:
Khôrada – “Seasons of Salt”
1476 – “Odessa”
Xasthur – “Question The Reflection”
The Dark Red Seed – “Diana and Ouroboros Dance”
Year of the Cobra – “The Siege”
Silence In The Snow – “Silence In The Snow”
Eye of Nix – “Wound & Scar”
Crowhurst – “Take This Pain Away”
Völur – “Breaker of Skulls (I. Boast)”
Lotus Thief – “The Book of the Dead”
Finnr’s Cane – “Willow”

The compilation arrives ahead of Prophecy Fest USA, which is presented by Stardust NYC and will take place at The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, NY on November 2nd and 3rd. The inaugural event will feature performances by Alcest, Xasthur, November’s Doom, So Hideous and more. Those who purchase tickets to the Fest will receive a special edition 2xCD Prophecy Compilation. Two day tickets are available now at http://us.prophecy.de/prophecy-fest/prophecy-fest-us-ticket.html.

Watch the trailer for Prophecy Fest USA:

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TEMPLE NIGHTSIDE set release date for special IRON BONEHEAD album, reveal first track – to play Never Surrender fest in November

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions sets November 1st as the international release date for a special recording from Temple Nightside, Recondemnation, on CD and vinyl LP formats. It shall be released in conjunction with the Iron Bonehead / Nuclear War Now!-curated Never Surrender Festival set to take place in Berlin on November 1-3. Temple Nightside will be giving an exclusive performance at this fest.

By now, Australia’s Temple Nightside require little to no introduction. In short, they are death metal necromancy of the highest order. Spitting in the face of other such facile attempts by normcore “metal” bands, Recondemnation is less a re-recording of 2013’s Condemnation debut album as it is an actual reimagining.

Descent and re-initiation: a corpse reborn through the womb of its own extinction. The veins cut and re-tethered, bloodthirst paralleled only by the emptiness… The beast rears its face once again, to sup and gnaw, and this is how the limbless move… The crypt is reopened, the dead Recondemned. Here, within, lies Recondemnation.

The crypt has opened and the first track to be revealed is appropriately “Exhumation; Miseries Upon Imprecation,” which can be heard HERE

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Temple Nightside’s Recondemnation
1. Shrine of the Summon
2. Exhumation; Miseries upon Imprecation
3. Abhorrent They Fall
4. Dagger of Necromantic Decay (Eater of Hearts)
5. Ascension of Decaying Forms
6. Miasma
7. Life Eternal

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Vreid release lyric video for new song “Black Rites in the Black Nights”

VREID have unveiled a lyric video for the second track from the upcoming album ‘Lifehunger’. The new record is slated for release on September 28th, 2018. Watch the lyric video for “Black Rites in the Black Nights”

The band comments: “A new chapter opens, and its a dark one. The eternal rites can never be controled, and khaos will forever conquer. So join the madness and let the fire of creativity burn. “

VREID have previously revealed the artwork for ‘Lifehunger’, which can be viewed together with the album details below.

Track-list
1. Flowers & Blood (1:50)
2. One Hundred Years (5:39)
3. Lifehunger (5:36)
4. The Dead White (4:59)
5. Hello Darkness (4:39)
6. Black Rites in the Black Nights (6:26)
7. Sokrates Must Die (3:29)
8. Heimatt (6:01)
Total playing time: 38:39

VREID have previously announced a string of Norwegian tour dates, together with ENSLAVED and GAAHLS WYRD. A full list of confirmed dates of the ‘Army of the North Star’ tour can be found below.

VREID
+Enslaved +Gaahls Wyrd
03 Nov 18 Oslo (NO) Parkteateret
15 Nov 18 Hamar (NO) Gregers
23 Nov 18 Kristiansand (NO) Kick
24 Nov 18 Stavanger (NO) Folken
30 Nov 18 Bergen (NO) USF Verftet
01 Dec 18 Trondheim (NO) Byscenen

VREID festival 2018
17 Aug 18 Dinkelsbühl (DE) Summer Breeze

VREID were formed in 2004. The Norwegian metal brigade rose from the ashes of WINDIR after the tragic perishing of the “Sognametal” legends with the declared mission of exploring new musical paths.

The Norsemen proved true to their words and have so far delivered 7 albums and one DVD, which each received high praise from critics and fans alike. VREID chose a course of constant evolution that is marked by thematically denoted phases regarding their often historically inspired lyrics.

This became particularly clear with albums ‘I Krig’ (2007) and ‘Milorg’ (2009), which both revolved around concepts dealing with resistance and liberation of Norway during World War II. With their following three records, VREID returned to their Norse roots, especially on latest full-length, ‘Sólverv’ which received high critical acclaim in 2015.

VREID have hammered out their success partly by being a heavily touring band. The four-piece performed more than 500 shows in 25 countries so far. Their everlasting march to conquer new territories has led the Norwegians to headline tours in Europe, North America, Japan, and India.

VREID’s style is often referred to as black ‘n roll and Metal Hammer UK described their music as “a unique time travel in metal” as elements of 70’s rock, 80’s classic metal, and Norwegian black metal are all clearly audible.

Now with eighth album ‘Lifehunger’, black ‘n roll is back! With eight brand new tracks, VREID are ready for the next chapter.

Style: Norwegian Black ‘n Roll

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Line-up
Sture: Vocals & guitars
Strom: Guitars
Steingrim: Drums
Hváll- Bass and keys

RUIN set release date for new MEMENTO MORI album, reveal first track

In their endless quest to push and support underground acts that deliver the goods, unaware and unmindful of trends and hype, on October 22nd, Memento Mori is proud to present the highly anticipated second album of America’s Ruin, Human Annihilation.

Not much is known about the anonymous aural torturers known as Ruin…at least, that was the case a couple years ago, before the band’s rebirth. The small amount of information that Memento Mori did know was that the band was formed back in 1991, somewhere in the United States. Due to various members of the band being incarcerated and institutionalized, Ruin was disbanded at some point later that year. Rumors have also swirled that the band members were/are part of some sort of cult.

Now free from any obstacles, the Ruin death metal machine was re-started again in 2015, and work began in earnest for what was to become their debut album, Drown in Blood. Released last year by Memento Mori to worldwide critical acclaim, Ruin’s Drown in Blood was everything that everyone had been waiting for, and then some: mean, vicious, spiteful, raucous, and sickening DEATH METAL. Sonic debauchery is what you wanted? Sonic debauchery is what you got!

Alas, Ruin strike while the iron’s red-hot and deliver another foul cauldron of filth with Human Annihilation. Shit-heavy and strewn with shit, Human Annihilation picks up exactly where their Drown in Blood ended, and delivers pure and utter ugliness enriched with doomed-out passages, crusty tempos, and sudden blasts that are meant to turn your stomach without care. And yet, compared to its predecessor, Human Annihilation goes even deeper into the creepiness; its soundfield is still vile and viscous, but there’s an even-more-pronounced lurking dread haunting their no-less-heavy ruminations. If Drown in Blood was some sort of bastard child spawned from Hellhammer covers being slammed out by Realm of Chaos-era Bolt Thrower taking place in the jam room of Finnish sickos Abhorrence in 1989, then Human Annihilation is the beyond-drunk and drugged-out aftermath, where there’s simply no escape from the disease-ridden basement.

They say absence makes the heart grow fonder. Well, this time, Ruin weren’t gone very long for us to feel any warm feelings for them, and so they deliver the more sickening and hateful Human Annihilation. Cover art by Caleb Dickenson (Cosmic Void Dark Art) and mastering by Ted Tringo, so you know this one’s gonna rot your soul with Ruin!

The first soul-rotting track can be found with “Savage Mutilation” HERE

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Ruin (US)’s Human Annihilation
1. Secreted Guts
2. In Horrific Disgust
3. Corpse Infestation
4. Death Meditation Trance
5. Savage Mutilation
6. The Embrace of Demons
7. Purification Rite
8. A Grisly Fate Awaits
9. In Their Blood…
10. Shadows

MORE INFO:
www.theruindeathmetalcult.bandcamp.com

ILL OMEN stream new IRON BONEHEAD mini-album

Today, the enigmatic Ill Omen stream the entirety of their highly anticipated new mini-album, The Grande Usurper. Set for international release on August 10th via Iron Bonehead Productions, hear Ill Omen’s The Grande Usurper in its entirety exclusively HERE.

A prolific force within the Australian black metal underground, Ill Omen has built a canon of enviably massive proportions – and not just “massive” in size, but rather in the heights/depths to which mainman IV aims. Much like he has in his death metal-oriented vehicle Temple Nightside, IV scours the murk with single-minded intent, but with Ill Omen, he pursues a vision of black metal that’s ceremonial and sinuous, often slowly drifting like fog lingering across an empty grave. Such was the case with 2016’s massive Æ.Thy.Rift – arguably, IV’s perfection of slo-mo blackdoom – and here, he returns with his first recording since that critically acclaimed third album.

And yet, The Grande Usurper is a grand break from the gooey, stretched-out expanses of Æ.Thy.Rift. No less murky, instead, IV sends the listener on a wild ride through the most bestial recesses of the characteristic Ill Omen sound. Across its four-song/25-minute runtime, The Grande Usurper roils and revels among the filth, pulsing with barely contained rage, as mind-melting solos yawn slowly up from the crypt, invoking that same sense of delirium as Æ.Thy.Rift but faster. Altogether, it’s a record that consolidates all the gnarled ‘n’ gnarling weapons within the Ill Omen arsenal, but wields them in obscene and horrifyingly new ways. Hideous energy, slipstreaming songwriting, coffin-bound atmosphere crushed: here is revealed The Grande Usurper.

Now, The Grande Usurper is revealed in full exclusively HERE

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Ill Omen’s The Grande Usurper
1. The Ruinous Drear
2. Sentenced Suffering
3. An Eld Living Darkness
4. A Thousand Yawning Graves

MORE INFO:
www.illomenvoid.bandcamp.com

black metal primitivists Divine Ecstasy stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut mini-album,

Today, black metal primitivists Divine Ecstasy stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut mini-album, Strange Passions. Set for international release on August 10th via Iron Bonehead Productions, hear Divine Ecstasy’s Strange Passions in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Hailing from the darkest and dingiest recesses of Detroit’s metal underground, Divine Ecstasy are a sonic embodiment of all that post-apocalyptic city’s grit and grime, simply taken to a black metal extreme. This filthy foursome are unapologeticaly raw and regressionist, hailing the most ancient, trend-free days of early BLACK fucking METAL. Such gods as pre-Viking Bathory, Mayhem, Root, Bulldozer, and Master’s Hammer are indeed hailed – as well as later torch-carriers like early Ulver, Dodheimsgard, Judas Iscariot, and Hades (Norway) – and then desecrated in a most salacious manner, so sick and sickening is the heart that beats black blood through Divine Ecstasy. Indeed, Strange Passions is aptly titled, for perversion and Bacchanalia guide these six mini-anthems as surely as devil worship and the invoking of demons – and it’s all done with a Loki-like sense of wrongness. Truly, these Strange Passions are so wrong, they’re right…right inside the depths of Divine Ecstasy!

Step entirely into those depths exclusively HERE,

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Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Divine Ecstasy’s Strange Passions
1. Eternally Scarred
2. Lost in the Catacombs
3. Sands of Time
4. Great Cataclysm
5. Prophets of Madness
6. Taste the Demon Seed

MORE INFO:
www.divineecstasy.bandcamp.com

Beyond Creation release first new track of forthcoming album ‘Algorythm’!

BEYOND CREATION are now premiering the first crushing new track of their forthcoming new album ‘Algorythm’, which is slated for release on October 12th, 2018.

The Canadian masters of progressive technical death metal are streaming “The Inversion” in the form of a music video

BEYOND CREATION comment: “We are stoked to premier ‘The Inversion’ as a first glimpse of the tonal variety we were able to express on our upcoming record ‘Algorythm’. Each musician was challenged to step out of his comfort zone to achieve the right vibe for each section of this track and we are confident of the songwriting work involved throughout the song. On the visual side, it was a pleasure to witness the outstanding work of each member of Rubicon’s team through every step of the process. We are incredibly happy on how this music video turned out and we’re excited for our fans to discover the epic story-line and plot it offers. Each one of us was thrilled to play a role in the scenario of the video and we hope that it opens up more opportunities of this kind for Beyond Creation but also for every metal band out there! We invite all of our fans to get in touch with us through Facebook/Instagram with their feedback, as we’re always more than happy to connect with you them all!”

Video credits
Production: Rubicon Pictures & Media (http://www.rubiconpm.com)
Director: Akena Co-Director: Yannick Lemos
Producer: Mike Raymond
Director Of Photography: Andrew Main Oster
Art Director & Costume Designer: Logan Fulford
Makeup & Hair: Samantha Lamothe
Assistant Camera & Gaffer: François Herquel
Production Assistant: Vincent Bourgon
Fire Performers: Lucifire Art & Rockyval Cyberfire
Safety: Julian Macias

Special Thanks: Cinepool, Studio Base Bin, Le Sanctuaire De Lourdes De Rigaud, Les Serres De Vaudreuil

BEYOND CREATION have furthermore revealed the artwork for ‘Algorythm’, which can be viewed together with the album details below.

Track-list
1. Disenthrall (1:44)
2. Entre Suffrage Et Mirage (4:20)
3. Surface’s Echoes (6:54)
4. Ethereal Kingdom (5:19)
5. Algorythm (7:40)
6. À Travers Le Temps Et L’Oubli (1:48)
7. In Adversity (3:19)
8. The Inversion (7:26)
9. Binomial Structures (6:32)
10. The Afterlife (5:37)
Bonus tracks
11. Surface’s Echoes (Instr) (6:53)
12. The Afterlife (Instr) (5:37)
Total playing time: 1:03:09

Feel the onrush of sweeping arpeggios, crushing waves of fretless bass, complex rhythmical patterns and erupting scales peppered with jazzy feeling and masterful execution under the mark of ‘Algorythm’, which names the third full-length of BEYOND CREATION.

The French part of Canada is home to a vibrant culture of technical Death Metal fostered by outstanding acts such as GORGUTS, CRYPTOPSY, MARTYR, and NEURAXIS. This illustrious family tree has produced many sprouts in the past, yet none of them are as brilliant as Quebec’s amazing scion: BEYOND CREATION!

BEYOND CREATION saw the light of day in 2005 in Montreal, Canada but it wasn’t until 2010 that the band was ready to hit the stage with their original line-up consisting of Simon Girard, Kevin Chatré, Guyot Bégin-Benoît and Dominic ‘Forest’ Lapointe. A year later, the band self-released their debut full-length album ‘The Aura’ (2011), which quickly became a highlight in the genre. Since then, BEYOND CREATION has been known as the progressive, innovative and exciting new metal sound of their homeland, Quebec.

In late 2012, the band had Philippe Boucher (Ex-FIRST FRAGMENT, INCADESCENSE, CHTHE’ILIST, DÉCOMBRES) take Guyot’s place on drums and things started moving at a faster pace in 2013, when they joined Season of Mist, re-releasing ‘The Aura’ and touring North America and Japan. In 2014, BEYOND CREATION released their second masterpiece ‘Earthborn Evolution’.

After the addition of Hugo Doyon-Karout (BROUGHT BY PAIN, EQUIPOISE, CONFLUX) on bass, the band focused on touring as much as possible on the ‘Earthborn Evolution’ album cycle compiling 3 North American tours, 3 European tours, countless shows in Canada, appearances in Mexico, Colombia and Dubaï, sharing the stage with heavy weights like ARCH ENEMY, HATE ETERNAL, MISERY INDEX, DYING FETUS, PSYCROPTIC and OBSCURA. They also took part in multiple large-scale music festivals such as Hellfest (FR), 70 000 Tons of Metal (US), UK Tech-Fest, Montebello Rockfest (CA), Heavy MTL (CA) and Damnation Fest (UK).

In 2018, BEYOND CREATION recorded their highly-anticipated third album ‘Algorythm’ at The Grid Studio in home land Canada, which is set for release on October 12th, 2018. With the new album, BEYOND CREATION delivers a ferocious blend of technicality, melody, and brutality aided by fang-filled growls, which is interwoven with beautiful progressive interludes. Prepare for the lightning evolution of the progressive technical death metal revolution!

Current line-up
Simon Girard: Vocals & Guitars
Kevin Chartré: Guitars & Back Vocals
Hugo Doyon-Karout: Bass
Philippe Boucher: Drums

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LYDIA LASKA set release date for long-awaited new EDGED CIRCLE album – reveal cover, tracklisting, teaser video

Today, Edged Circle Productions sets October 26th as the North American release date for Lydia Laska’s highly anticipated second album, Ego Death. The European release date is set for October 5th.

Lydia Laska hail from Stavanger and Oslo, Norway. Forming in 2002, its members come from a diverse musical background, including (but certainly not limited to) the early black metal scene as well as prog/krautrock, punk, and good ol’ rock ‘n’ roll. The band’s recorded debut came in 2006 with the White Trash Attack EP, and was followed by two more EPs – We’re Nothing Compared to Ourselves (2007) and Could I Have a Go On Your Girl, Please? (2009) – but it wasn’t until their debut album in 2010, Krankenhaus, where the Lydia Laska aesthetic truly took flight. A devilishly dark, boldly bewildering, but above all perversely catchy sound emerged, drawing in such disparate influences as the Velvet Underground, Faust, David Bowie, Royal Trux, The Stooges, and old-school black metal. Not long after its release, Krankenhaus went on to be critically acclaimed and served as an admitted prime influence for fellow hybrid-benders Kvelertak. Continuing that momentum, Lydia Laska soon became notorious for their chaotic live shows – to the point where they actually had to stop playing gigs since they were generally banned from most venues.

With the stage thus set, anticipation is high for Lydia Laska’s long-awaited second album. Fittingly titled Ego Death, this is the sound of Lydia Laska becoming both brasher and smoother, rougher and more come-hither, swaggering and silky: a truly unique sound that can take over both radio and squats alike. Indeed, life has been that much rougher since the release of Krankenhaus, and the band’s sonic influences are even more varied and violent this time. Knowing beforehand that the stakes were high, Lydia Laska chose to record Ego Death with esteemed producer Emil Nikolaisen (Årabrot, Todd Rundgren, Serena-Maneesh).

What results is an even-more-kaleidoscopic stroll through the gutter, even for those already well versed in Lydia Laska’s mischievous ways. Each of the ten tracks across Ego Death could be a radio hit in the own right…if the radio station was entrenched in the darkest, dingiest sewer and was playing warring factions simultaneously. And yet, for however schizophrenic Ego Death might sound on the surface, beneath that surface is an entirely earnest and completely composed method to the mayhem. Each hook shimmers and stabs, but always with the target being both one’s ears and heart; it’s ridiculously difficult to get these songs outta your head. Nikolaisen’s production no doubt aids in Lydia Laska’s earworming nature here, with the soundfield finding a strange – and strangely alluring – balance between shambling and stately, regal and righteously ripped. It is, ultimately, the epitome of an Ego Death.

So, are you prepared for Lydia Laska and that very Ego Death? Will you step forward into the gutter, only to be splashed with sonic slime that will never wash off? Questions, questions…

First track premiere to be revealed shortly. In the meantime, view a special/perverse teaser video HERE .

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Lydia Laska’s Ego Death
1. Teslicity, Baby!
2. You
3. Taste Of Blood
4. Brainmelt
5. I Can Play Myself
6. Gout Lord
7. Did You Do It Again?
8. We’ll Make-Up Your Mind
9. Funeral Fist
10. Levitation

MORE INFO:
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USBM Duo UNHOLY BAPTISM Releasing Sophomore Album ‘Volume I: The Bonds of Servitude’ in October

UNHOLY BAPTISM has returned with their long awaited sophomore album, Volume I: The Bonds of Servitude, which will be released on October 5. Album track “Whispers of Power Eternal” is streaming here:

Produced, mixed, and mastered at Black Goat Studios in Flagstaff, AZ, the album has improved on virtually all aspects of the band’s debut, …On the Precipice of the Ancient Abyss. The album is the first installment in a trilogy the band is writing, exploring new themes and songwriting techniques. Staying true to their black metal roots, Volume I: The Bonds of Servitude has cemented the band’s signature USBM sound while bringing a more polished production to the table.

Mantus, the band’s lead vocalist and bassist, said of the new release:

“The album is the beginning of a trilogy exploring the unrepentant darkness of the human condition and the inconceivable power of the gods deep within the farthest reaches of the universe. This album explores the human consciousness and the opening of the mind to the vast, overwhelming power that exists outside of this terrestrial prison.”

Track Listing
1 – Intro: The Awakening of Forgotten Gods
2 – …These Scars are Wounds Unhealed
3 – Shattered
4 – Withering Woods
5 – Whispers of Power Eternal
6 – Peering into the Flames of Enlightenment
7 – Noctis Maleficarum
8 – Baptized in the Majesty of Satan

Crippled Black Phoenix release second track of new album ‘Great Escape’

CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX are now premiering the second track of their forthcoming new album ‘Great Escape’, which is slated for release on September 14th, 2018.

Mastermind Justin Greaves comments on the track: “Given the fact that both Belinda and myself are huge animal lovers and animal rights supporters, it has always seemed the right thing to do to make songs about the animals. We did it with our “other” band Se Delan, so when i gave her the demos for Great Escape songs, Belinda got straight back to me with this burning need to write a song for the animals. It completes the song and fits into the thread of the album.

Vocalist Belinda Kordic adds: Often i’m referred to as a “closed book”, which is true I guess, but when it comes to animals and their well-being, I’ll rip my heart out and serve it on a plate. I know we can’t bare the weight of the worlds evil on our shoulders, and we can’t save all of them, the unloved, abused and neglected animals of the world. But I have a tendency to want to do just that and its hard to cope with at times. This song is for them.”

On the album, Justin Greaves comments: “Sometimes we want to escape from the dark and make a positive change in our life… and yet…Sometimes we simply want to escape this world. Because we’re tired and we’ve had enough… This is what ‘Great Escape’ is. Some parts it’s pure escapism from real life, longing to just shoot straight up and off this planet…. Other parts are born out of frustration at the unjust world we live in. It is.. Escaping from your own broken mind, or from society, or animals escaping from abuse. It’s the escape from the mainstream thought patterns and engrained social conditioning that perpetuates mans destruction of nature. We can be our own ‘Great Escape’ if we want, and it can be however you want to it to be. If you’re not happy then you don’t have to conform, you don’t have to carry on ‘playing the game’.”

CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX have previously revealed the artwork for ‘Great Escape’, which can be viewed together with the album details below.

Track-list ‘Great Escape’
1. You Brought It Upon Yourselves (3:43)
2. To You I Give (9:22)
3. Uncivil War (pt I) (2:50)
4. Madman (4:51)
5. Times, They Are A’Raging (11:58)
6. Rain Black, Reign Heavy (5:58)
7. Slow Motion Breakdown (4:34)
8. Nebulas (5:35)
9. Las Diabolicas (3:49)
10. Great Escape (pt I) (7:36)
11. Great Escape (pt II) (13:03)

‘Great Escape’, this beautiful touch of darkness comes hardly as a surprise, when taking into account that CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX mastermind Justin Greaves has previously gone public about his personal fight against severe depression. Similar dark themes and traits have already been a hallmark of the UK rockers’ latest full-length, ‘Bronze’ (2016).

CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX have always confounded critics trying to pin their style down ever since founder Justin Greaves recorded his first ideas in 2004 – which earned them tagging attempts ranging from “stoner prog” through “freak folk” to “psychedelic doom”. Despite the wide range of musical leanings within their albums, there are a unifying dark streak and somber melancholy running through the songs. Greaves had already made himself a name as drummer for IRON MONKEY and ELECTRIC WIZARD among others. When the multi-instrumentalist finally decided to stand on his own musical feet, CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX was born. This involves a changing cast of musicians and live set-ups which mirrored the ever-ongoing evolution of the band, and the fact that the songs were mostly not composed with a live performance on mind.

Between 2007 and 2014, CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX released a string of five critically highly acclaimed studio albums – namely ‘A Love of Shared Disasters’ (2007), ‘The Resurrectionists’ (2009), ‘Night Raider’ (2009), ‘(Mankind) The Crafty Ape’ (2012), and ‘White Light Generator’ (2014). This was complemented by EPs ‘I, Vigilante’ (2010), ‘No Sadness or Farewell’ (2012), and ‘Oh’ Ech-oes’ (2015), the live recording ‘Live Poznan’ (2013), and the ‘200 Tons of Bad Luck’ compilation (2009). Their ‘New Dark Age Tour EP 2015 A.D.’ was the band’s first release on Season of Mist and came with an extensive homage to PINK FLOYD. The strong influence of the UK rock giants could also be felt on ‘Bronze’ (2016), yet while CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX never denied their roots, this outstanding act has long created their own sonic cosmos.

With last year’s ‘Horrific Honorifics’ offering, the band elegantly payed tribute to great artists and classic songs while making those tracks their own in sound and spirit without compromising the integrity of the original masterpieces.

Now with ‘Great Escape’, CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX take you on their new adventure and let you explore their sonic cosmos even further, and where all its emotions are reflected on to this earth. From the angry “Rain Black”, to the unnerving “Madman” and forgiving “Nebulas”, CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX arise once more.

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