Tag Crippled Black Phoenix
Who doesn’t love a good surprise? I know I do. You, the debut album by new entity Johnny The Boy certainly provides one. Two central figures of Crippled Black Phoenix, Justin Greaves and Belinda Kordic, joined by Matthew Crawford on… Continue Reading →
This long-standing act now releases its twelfth album, along with other releases the theme is the human condition and the mistreatment of humans and animals alike. Musically I expected something unusual and experimental. The narrative “Incantation For The Different” rails… Continue Reading →
Emancipation is an important step in any kind of development, be it development of the personal or the professional kind. If your ideas about life, work and music differ from those of the other individuals involved in your project, if… Continue Reading →
Ison is an ambient post-rock project put together by Daniel Änghede (previously of Crippled Black Phoenix) and Light Field Reverie vocalist Heike Langhans. Having crafted two EPs in 2015 and 2018, the duos debut LP was released in 2019 to… Continue Reading →
What to do, as a band, when you find yourself without a lead vocalist right before tracking should have started for your next release? Well, there are not many options. You can either despair, curse your bad luck and call… Continue Reading →
The Devil’s Trade is David Mako, singer of Hungarian doom band Stereochrist and sludge guys HAW on his own playing what he pretty damned accurately describes as doom folk. Pretty much sums it up really. It’s kind of not a… Continue Reading →
We caught Justin in Bratislava, just before the soundcheck for Crippled Black Phoenix’s show. We discussed what’s different about being a musician at 25 and now, Brexit and what it means for British bands, the music industry, deals with labels,… Continue Reading →
Bratislava, the capitol of Slovakia, is not an obvious beauty. The cold Socialist realism of the Eastern bloc with its massive, geometrical shapes is omnipresent in the city’s architecture. Highlights from earlier historical periods can’t subdue or neutralize its effect…. Continue Reading →
If you are looking for a review that will finally tell you what kind of music CBP exactly make, or if you are hoping to learn in what degree and how precisely they resemble Pink Floyd, then I will have… Continue Reading →
I think I should begin by telling you that I like Crippled Black Phoenix’ cover EP Horrific Honorifics immensely. It is great. One could write a novel about it. In fact, it might be a novel, or a biography, in… Continue Reading →
For over 10 years, since first coming together in the English Midlands in 2006, Alunah have trafficked in a blend of the earthly and the unearthly. 2017 sees the band releasing their highly anticipated fourth album Solennial in partnership with… Continue Reading →
Crippled Black Phoenix have always been a hard one to pin down to a single genre so its no surprise to find multi-instrumentalist Justin Greaves still warping any pre- or mis-conceptions we may have of his band. This long-playing EP… Continue Reading →