Crippled Black Phoenix
| Crippled Black Phoenix | |
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 Crippled Black Phoenix at the 2017 Roadburn Festival |
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| General information | |
| origin |
Bristol , UK
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| Genre (s) | Alternative rock , art rock , new art rock , progressive rock , post rock , neo psychedelia , space rock , stoner doom |
| founding | 2004 |
| Website | www.crippledblackphoenix.co.uk |
| Current occupation | |
Guitar, effects, background vocals, studio bass, studio drums |
Justin Greaves (since 2004) |
Vocals, guitar |
Daniel Änghede (since 2013) |
Guitar, background vocals |
Jonas Stålhammar (since 2015) |
bass |
Tom Greenway (since 2016) |
Piano, keyboard, vocals |
Daisy Chapman (2010-2011; since 2013) |
Synthesizer, keyboard, organ, background vocals |
Mark Furnevall (since 2010) |
Live vocals / keyboard and trumpet |
Helen Stanley (since 2016) |
Live drums |
Ben Wilsker (since 2011) |
singing |
Belinda Kordic (since 2011) |
| former members | |
bass |
Dominic Aitchison |
Synthesizer, keyboard, organ |
Danny Ashberry |
bass |
Baz Barrett |
Guitar, vocals |
Karl Demata |
Guitar, background vocals |
George Elgie |
Drums |
Thomas Elgie |
guitar |
David Greaves |
Bass, background vocals |
Christian Heilmann |
bass |
Niall Hone |
guitar |
Nial McGaughey |
Drums |
Guy Metcalffe |
Cello, backing vocals |
Charlotte "Chipper" Nicholls |
Synthesizer, Mellotron, Vocoder |
Mark Ophidian |
Piano, keyboard, mellotron, backing vocals |
Kostas Panagiotou |
Drums |
Merijn Royaards |
singing |
Andy Semmens |
singing |
Matt Simpkin |
Singing, trombones |
John E. Vistic |
Vocals, guitar |
Joe Volk |
guitar |
Michael LB West |
Piano, keyboard, vocals |
Miriam Wolf |
Crippled Black Phoenix (CBP) is a Swedish - British rock band .
history
2004 to 2011: foundation and beginnings
In 2004 Justin Greaves , who had previously played drums in several bands such as Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine , Iron Monkey or Electric Wizard - encouraged by bassist Dominic Aitchison from the group Mogwai - recorded a few musical ideas that he had had been in his head for a long time and with whom he "processed bad experiences". These then formed the basis for the foundation of the musical project Crippled Black Phoenix .
The debut album A Love of Shared Disasters was recorded in 2006 and released in Germany on May 25, 2007. Since then, the band has played with a changing line-up, despite further engagements of the various members outside. The only permanent member, up to and including the album (Mankind) The Crafty Ape in 2012, was the singer Joe Volk.
The box set The Resurectionists & Night Raider was released in Germany on April 29, 2011, with the two albums each being released individually in 2009. The compilation 200 Tons of Bad Luck , with a few songs from both albums, was released at the same time.
On September 10, 2010, the last work under Invada Records , the EP I, Vigilante , was released.
2012 to 2013: (Mankind) The Crafty Ape , exit Joe Volks, multiple change of singers and transfer to Mascot Label Group
The band's fourth studio album (Mankind) The Crafty Ape was released on January 27, 2012. This album was also the first release on the Mascot / Cool Green label after they had separated from Invada Records . (Mankind) The Crafty Ape not only gave the band their first top 50 chart placement in Germany, but it was also largely enthusiastically and highly praised by the German trade press; sometimes the album received the highest ratings. I.a. it was named "Album of the Month" in Eclipsed (February 2012 issue) and Break Out Magazine (March / April 2012 issue) .
After the recordings of their fourth studio album, Joe Volk left the band, whereupon the previously unknown singer Matt Simpkin was hired for the We Shall See Victory tour, which took the band across Europe in March and April . After the tour ended, Crippled Black Phoenix and Simpkin went their separate ways again.
In August 2012 the band announced that John E. Vistic would join the band as the new singer. He can be heard for the first time on the EP No Sadness Or Farewell, which was released on October 19, 2012 .
2013 to 2015: Daniel Änghede and White Light Generator
On March 22, 2013, Crippled Black Phoenix announced on their official Facebook page that John E. Vistic had been replaced by Daniel Änghede as the new singer and additional guitarist. Before that, Daniel Änghede was singer and guitarist with the Swedish duo Hearts of Black Science . The band's statement on their official Facebook page: "Even though he's no longer with us ... John E. Vistic did an amazing job on 'No Sadness Or Farewell' .... Much respect .... Now HOLD ON (Goodbye to all of that ex-singer nonsense) and prepare for the next outburst of vocal damage in the form of Swedish hunk Daniel Anghede !!! "
On the How We Rock tour, surprisingly, keyboardist and singer Miriam Wolf , who accompanied the band on the last three tours and on the EP No Sadness Or Farewell , was replaced by Daisy Chapman . Daisy Chapman was the band's singer and keyboardist even before Miriam Wolf and can be heard on the album (Mankind) The Crafty Ape . So far there have been no statements from the band.
The fifth studio album White Light Generator was released on March 14, 2014 in Germany and on March 17, 2014 in the United Kingdom. It was reviewed as well by various specialist magazines as the previous album (Mankind) The Crafty Ape .
In December 2014 Karl Demata (guitar) and Christian Heilmann (bass) left the band in an argument with Justin Greaves.
On July 4, 2015, Crippled Black Phoenix released the limited EP Oh'Ech-oes in collaboration with Se Delan via Clearview Records , which almost exclusively contained the two Pink Floyd covers Echoes (from the Pink Floyd album Meddle ) and Childhood's End (from the Pink Floyd album Obscured by Clouds ).
2015 to 2017: Bronze and transition to Season of Mist
With regard to the New Dark Age Tour 2015 AD , the band released an EP of the same name with four songs on November 27 on the Season of Mist label , which also includes the Pink Floyd cover Echoes (from the previously released EP Oh'Ech-oes ) contained. Commenting on the EP, Justin Greaves said: "It really feels like we are living in a new dark age. Religious and political oppression, the public that is constantly being fed with falsehoods - it all reminds me of the priests of the Middle Ages, who told the people about dog-headed monsters in the forest - but if you repent and join the church then they would protect you. " The song Spider Island , which can be found on the New Dark Age Tour 2015 AD- EP, was released on October 6, 2015.
Due to Daisy Chapman's pregnancy and her subsequent maternity leave, she has been replaced by singer-songwriter Helen Stanley since the beginning of 2016 in live performances.
After the partly public arguments between Justin Greaves and Karl Demata and the financially unfortunate situation of Greaves, it was not clear for a long time how the band would go on in the future. During this time, Greaves also spoke in interviews about his previously unknown depression. However, Greaves was able to collect enough financial resources via the crowdfunding portal " GoFundMe " to finance the production for the next bronze album . This was released on November 4, 2016 and received similarly good reviews as the previous albums. For example, it was voted the third best album of the month by rock magazine eclipsed (issue No. 186; December / January) and it ranks tenth among the top 100 albums in 2016 in the magazine's annual review (issue No. 187; February).
On July 1st, 2017, CBP released their EP Horrific Honorifics via AMORecordings . The EP consists exclusively of cover versions of songs, of which Greaves either wanted to have recorded "his own version" or with which he shares a certain "emotional connection" and which he "means a lot".
2018 to date: Great Escape
The seventh studio album Great Escape was released on September 14, 2018. This album also received mostly positive reviews. For example, in its issue no.203 in September 2018 , the magazine Eclipsed named the album the second best of the month. And the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung named Great Escape "Album of the Week" in its article on September 28, 2018 . In addition, it was the first album in CBP's discography to hit the German iTunes charts, where it was 75th on the day of publication.
music
Crippled Black Phoenix like to refer to their music as endtime ballads . Many of the pieces are comparatively long and quite elaborately designed. Their music is often compared to that of the early Pink Floyd. This effort makes it necessary to hire additional musicians for live performances. According to Greaves, the songs are written regardless of their suitability for the stage, which, despite the additional musicians, sometimes makes it necessary not to perform one or the other piece.
The band can best be classified in New Artrock and is mainly assigned to this genre by the magazine Eclipsed . Influences from progressive rock, post-rock, alternative rock and electronic (synth) music are part of the genre. Post-rock shapes the band especially in their early stages. From 2009 more and more elements of art rock and progressive rock were added. Since the album White Light Generator from 2014, CBP have expanded their style with influences from Stoner Doom and Psychedelic Doom. Other styles of rock to be found in the music of CBP are space rock, psychedelic rock and folk rock . The music style names “Stoner Prog” and “Freak Folk” are stored on the band's website and the subgenre names “Macabre Rock” and “Progressive Post Rock” are stored on the website of their label Season of Mist .
Justin Greaves plays the majority of the drum melodies on the albums. He is also the main songwriter. The lyrics to the songs are and were written by other current and former group members; mainly Daniel Änghede and Joe Volk. Daniel Änghede wrote all the lyrics from the album White Light Generator (except for the lyrics of the cover songs ).
Since (Mankind) The Crafty Ape , Belinda Kordic has occasionally been heard as the female second voice. Together with Justin Greaves she forms the British-Swedish music duo Se Delan .
The Australian artist Matthew Dunn has developed almost all of the band's artwork since the album (Mankind) The Crafty Ape .
Discography
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Studio albums
- A Love of Shared Disasters (2007)
- The Resurrectionists (2009)
- Night Raider (2009)
- (Mankind) The Crafty Ape (2012)
- White Light Generator (2014)
- Bronze (2016)
- Great Escape (2018)
EPs
- I, Vigilante (2010)
- No Sadness or Farewell (2012)
- Oh'Ech-oes (2015 - with Se Delan)
- New Dark Age (2015)
- Horrific Honorifics (2017)
live
- Poznan 2011 AD (2012) Vinyl LP (only available in very limited numbers)
- Live Poznan (2013) CD
- Destroy Freak Valley (Live at Freak Valley Festival, 2015 AD) (2016) Vinyl LP (only available in very limited numbers)
Compilations
- 200 Tons of Bad Luck (2009)
So far only digitally available and downloadable discography
- Extra tracks (from 2009)
- Live at Burg Herzberg Festival, 2011 AD (2012)
- Live in Bern 2012 AD (2012)
- In A Cave (Live 2014 AD) (2015)
- Destroy Freak Valley (Live at Freak Valley Festival, 2015 AD) (2016)
- Budapest Vigilante Session (2017)
- Demons in Aschaffenburg (Live 2019 AD) (2020)
Tour itinerary (from 2011)
- Laying Traps, 2011 AD Tour (Spring and Summer 2011)
- We Shall See Victory Tour (March to May 2012)
- Long Live Independence Tour (October 2012)
- How We Rock Tour (July 2013)
- White Light Generator (444) Tour (May 2014)
- New Dark Age Tour 2015 AD Tour (December 2015)
- Converge Tour 2016 AD (April 2016)
- CBP Tour 2016 (December 2016)
- CBP Tour 2017 (February to November 2017)
- The Perfect Tour of Total Pleasure (October 2018)
swell
- ↑ Own presentation of the biography on the band's homepage.
- ↑ Interview with Black Magazin ( Memento of July 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 19, 2018.
- ↑ biography on Laut.de , accessed on March 26, 2012
- ↑ Review of (Mankind) ... on Musikreviews.de , accessed on February 24, 2014.
- ↑ Review by (Mankind) ... on Powermetal.de , accessed on February 24, 2014.
- ↑ Review of (Mankind) ... on Plattentests.de , accessed on February 25, 2014.
- ↑ Justin Greaves' statement on Volks's exit , accessed October 27, 2012.
- ↑ Interview with Justin Greaves on The Sleeping Shaman , accessed October 27, 2012.
- ^ Homepage of the band , accessed October 27, 2012.
- ↑ Statement from CBP from March 22, 2013 on Facebook , accessed on August 26, 2013.
- ↑ Return of Daisy Chapman (pictures) , accessed on August 29, 2013.
- ↑ Review of White Light ... on Powermetal.de , accessed on June 12, 2015.
- ↑ Review of White Light ... on Albumcheck.de , accessed on September 21, 2014.
- ↑ Review of White Light ... on Visions.de , accessed on September 21, 2014.
- ^ A b Disputes between Justin Greaves and Karl Demata , accessed June 9, 2017.
- ↑ Oh'Ech-oes --- Clearview Records , accessed October 7, 2015.
- ↑ a b c Season of Mist website , accessed November 30, 2015.
- ^ "New Dark Age" article in German , accessed October 7, 2015.
- ^ "New Dark Age" article in English ( memento of October 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 7, 2015.
- ↑ Justin Greaves ' crowdfunding page , accessed June 9, 2017.
- ↑ AMORecordings website , accessed July 5, 2017.
- ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Album of the Week 2018 , accessed on September 29, 2018.
- ^ ITunesCharts website , accessed September 19, 2018.
- ↑ Interview from March 22, 2012 at Albumcheck.de, accessed on March 26, 2012.
- ↑ a b biography of the band , accessed on November 21, 2017.
- ↑ Se Delan Biog , accessed March 31, 2014.
- ^ Matthew Dunn Art Website , accessed October 8, 2015.
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH
- ↑ "CBP Tour Info" , accessed September 27, 2018
