Crippled Black Phoenix

Starting out as an idea in 2004, Crippled Black Phoenix soon established themselves as one of the decisive bands of the new century when it comes to cineastic soundscapes and endtime ballads not willing to be categorized. The members, even though all involved in successful projects besides, refuse to be stamped as a namedropping cumulation of their musical past. What counts is the music and the feelings it evokes. Founder Justin Greaves and his band create songs which continue where PINK FLOYD stopped with "Wish You Were Here" in 1975. You can't avoid thinking of SUPERTRAMP, CAMEL, ALAN PARSONS or YES. For those who were born a little later, their third release "200 Tons Of Bad Luck", might be the introduction to a new "old" world, beyond MOGWAI, GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR or SIGUR RÓS and not only the final access to the parental record collection. With songs that reanimate a time, which was forgotten in our "new" world, they take their audience out of every reality and into a cosmos, which appears to be wide, empty and only consisting of sound. However, only a few month later, their new and current record "I,Vigilante" was released. With only 6 songs but a total length of 45 minutes, this epos chains organs, feastful guitars, string-compositions and not least singer Joe Volks embracing vocals, to a hauntingly deep masterpiece. Elegies, bedded into a profound orchestration and circled with lyrics somewhere between grief and melancholy. Followed by extensive touring through Europe and China, the year 2011 also brought a signing with the Mascot Label Group, whose very own Cool Green Label is going to release Crippled Black Phoenix' new record "(Mankind) The Crafty Ape" in January 2012. The opus consisting of three acts on two records was recorded in the well-known Chapel Studios in Lincolnshire and will bring Crippled Black Phoenix back on the road in March/April 2012.

Justin Greaves on the new record:

'This time we wanted to make everything right. The recording quality was supposed to play a major role, so we went for the Chapel Studios. Our new songs should get straight to the point without denying our typical trademark. For me, "Mankind" is our best work so far.'

Links

www.crippledblackphoenix.co.uk

www.myspace.com/crippledblackphoenix