Crippled Black Phoenix Announce 2LP Release for 20th Anniversary
Look. I know there’s a lot of information below. And you might be on your phone or wherever you’re at and wondering if there’s really any reason you need all the details and album credits for who’s doing what on the songs on Crippled Black Phoenix‘s two anniversary LP releases, The Wolf Changes its Fur But Not its Nature and the covers collection Horrific Honorifics Number Two (2). Maybe not? Probably not.
In all likelihood, I won’t either. Even if I review the thing, the various comings and goings will be handy to have but I can’t imagine having space to write anything else if I was trying to include a list of personnel for each track throughout the 105 minutes or so of music included across both outings. So does it need to be there?
Here’s the thing. Maybe. Who the hell knows. Maybe 10 years from now when Crippled Black Phoenix are turning 30 as a band, I’ll want to go back and see who was involved in their 20th anniversary goings on. Maybe one of these names will come up in a search on the site’s back end for something else and clue me into some relevant information I could make use of at some point. It’s happened before. But the point is that now that it’s here, it’s here for as long as the site is, and while I know there’s no such thing as permanence — even less so on the internet — at some point in the future I might want to know this stuff. So if you see it and it looks sloppy and it’s a lot, at least know that I thought about it before I decided to put it all in.
No idea if that helps at all, but I do know for a fact that nobody gives a shit and it’s purely imaginary on my part that anyone might. Congrats to Crippled Black Phoenix on 20 years purveying heavy melancholy. Provided this site still exists, I’ll look forward to linking back to this post in a decade.
From the PR wire:
CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX Announce New Double Album
The UK shape-shifters celebrate 20 years with compilation of re-recorded favorites and haunting covers
When the world drowns its sorrows in silence, Crippled Black Phoenix scream into the abyss. Since its inception in 2004, the UK band served as a voice for the voiceless, whether they be animals, the unequal or the different. This year, Justin Greaves (ex Iron Monkey and Electric Wizard), long-time vocalist Belinda Kordic and their many collaborators are celebrating 20 years of shedding light on our troubled existence by releasing a new, two-part compilation.
Horrific Honorifics Number Two (2) continues Crippled Black Phoenix’s tradition of haunting homages with covers that span from Fugazi and Laura Branigan to NoMeansNo, Deep Purple and Built to Spill. The Wolf Changes Its Fut But Not Its Nature offers something different. This disc collects reworked versions of CBP’s early signature songs, including “Goodnight, Europe”, which was the first song that Greaves ever wrote for the band.
The Wolf Changes Its Fur But Not Its Nature and Horrific Honorifics Number Two (2) come out November 29 on Season of Mist.
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While originally posted to MySpace after watching Eurovision, “Goodnight, Europe” has become a staple of Cripple Black Phoenix’s live set. The reworked version on The Wolf Changes Its Fur But Not Its Nature reflects how the song has changed with each performance over the past 20 years. The darker, gloomier “Goodnight, Europe (Pt2)” swells like Europe’s fractured landscape. Kordic threads through the shadows with eerie melancholy, as if haunted by the nostalgia for what once was.
“It’s almost impossible to choose which songs to pay respect to”, Greaves says about this new compilation. “There’s still respect for the original version but ‘Goodnight Europe’ needed to be re-imagined in the studio because of what the song has become over time and what it’s now come to represent. Our close friends – both old and new – add more righteous power to these recordings”.
The Wolf Changes Its Fur But Not Its Nature
1. We Forgotten Who We Are (11:17)
2. You Put The Devil In Me (6:18)
3. 444 (7:23)
4. Goodnight, Europe (Pt2) (8:37)
5. (-) (4:39)
6. Song For The Unloved (14:22)
7. Whissendine (6:58)
8. Blizzard Of Horned Cats (4:43)
Total runtime: 1:04:21
Horrific Honorifics Number Two (2)
1. Vengeance (4:16)
2. Self Control (5:23)
3. Blueprint (4:03)
4. And That’s Sad (6:52)
5. Hammer Song (4:52)
6. When A Blind Man Cries (3:22)
7. My Pal (3:51)
8. Goin’ Against Your Mind (8:53)
Total runtime: 41:36
The Wolf Changes Its Fur But Not Its Nature & Horrific Honorifics Number Two(2) are a double album celebrating the 20 year existence of CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX.
Cast of Suspects:
Justin Greaves,
Belinda Kordic
with
Andy Taylor, Helen Stanley, Matt Crawford, Georg Paco Nitschke, Wesley J. Wasley
Ryan Patterson, Justin Storms, Kostas Panagiotou, Robin Tow, Martin Hyde.
Album Credits:
All songs on The Wolf Changes Its Fur But Not Its Nature are rerecorded songs from previous Crippled Black Phoenix releases.
We Forgotten Who We Are
(Music – Greaves, Words – Volk)
Justin Greaves – Drums, Guitars, Samples
Belinda Kordic – Vocals
Justin Storms – Vocals
Matt Crawford – Bass
Helen Stanley – Piano, Synth
Andy Taylor – Guitar
You Put The Devil In Me
(Music – Greaves, Words – Volk)
Justin Greaves – Drums, Guitar, Saw
Belinda Kordic – Vocals
Kostas Panagiotou – Accordian, Piano, Hammond
Matt Crawford – Bass
Andy Taylor – Guitar
444
(Music – Greaves, Words – Storms/Volk)
Justin Greaves – Drums, Guitars, Samples
Justin Storms – Vocals
Belinda Kordic – Backing Vocals
Kostas Panagiotou – Piano
Matt Crawford – Bass
Robin Tow – Additional Drums
Martin Hyde – Additional Drums
Goodnight, Europe (Pt2)
(Music – Greaves, Words – Kordic)
Justin Greaves – Drums, Guitar
Belinda Kordic – Vocals
Kostas Panagiotou – Piano, Accordian
Matt Crawford – Bass
Song For The Unloved
(Music – Greaves, Words – Patterson)
Justin Greaves – Synth, Drums, Guitars, Samples, Bass
Ryan Patterson – Vocals
Belinda Kordic – Vocals
Georg Paco Nitschke – Saxophone, Synth; vocoder
Robin Tow – Additional Drums
Helen Stanley – Piano, Synth
Andy Taylor – Guitar
Whissendine
(Music – Greaves, Words – Volk)
Justin Greaves – Drums, Guitar, Ebow, Acoustic Guitar
Belinda Kordic – Vocals
Helen Stanley – Trumpet
Kostas Panagiotou – Piano
Wesley J. Wasley – Bass
Blizzard Of Horned Cats
(Music – Greaves)
Justin Greaves – Drums, Guitars, Sample, Synth
Kostas Panagiotou – Piano, Hammond
Wesley J. Wasley – Bass
Recorded in 2023 at:
Chapel Studios, Lincolnshire.
Engineered by Pieter Rietkerk
Additional Vocal Sessions at:
Kapsylen Studio, Stockholm
Engineered by Jörgen Jugglo Wall.
House Of Foto, Louisville, KY
Engineered by Ryan Patterson
Additional Production Credits:
Mixed by Pieter Rietkerk
Mastered by Magnus Lindberg
Produced by Justin Greaves
Published by Season Of Mist & Domino Publishing Co.
Cover Art:
Erebus Art (Thanasis Stratidakis)
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