CRISIS? WHAT CRISIS?
“This album is definitely outward looking and full of despair. The next one is going to be cheerful, I promise!”
The last time Prog spoke with Crippled Black Phoenix founder Justin Greaves, everything seemed to be going extremely well. It was the summer of 2018 and his band were poised to release their seventh full-length recording, Great Escape. The album was widely hailed as containing some of their best work; a development Greaves attributed to having “the right people playing the music” after years of turmoil and unsettled line-ups.
Two years on, Crippled Black Phoenix are about to release a new studio record, but with yet another line-up. Seemingly out of nowhere, vocalist Daniel Änghede and synth player Mark Furnevall decided to leave the group late in 2019, just as Greaves was preparing
