A Voice For The Voiceless
Some bands baulk at the big questions. Not Crippled Black Phoenix. During a four-way call with Justin Greaves and his Swedish bandmates Belinda Kordic and Joel Segerstedt, Prog queries their summary of their epic, outsider music as “endtime ballads”. Our world is in trouble, certainly, but apocalypse now? Surely there’s some hope for humanity?
“I don’t think so,” says Kordic flatly. “Hope is the last thing that leaves a human, but when I look around the world I’m glad I don’t have kids to worry about. Natural disasters; people who lack emotion and empathy. It’s crazy and it’s just going to explode. You do your best, of course, but…”
Kordic is at home in Stockholm, her Zoom backdrop is a wall of animal photos and Crippled Black Phoenix ephemera. Segerstedt, who currently shares lead vocal duties with Kordic, is at home a few streets away. He’s less chatty, perhaps because he’s last man in, having been invited to join CBP after his fine, brooding.
