Johnny the Boyare streaming their debut album on the Season of Mist YouTube channel. Listen to all eight tracks HERE.
Formed by current and former members of Crippled Black Phoenix, Johnny the Boy have emerged with a vile yet heartfelt spike of black metal. 'You' opens with "Die Already", a gloomy surge of industrial rock that's pierced by the pissed-off shrieks of Belinda Kordic.
"I truly think that Belinda's vocals are some of the most visceral, vicious and spiteful I've ever heard," says Justin Greaves, who refers to himself as a guiterrorist/drum avalanche.
It's an accurate description, too. "Crossings" is scarred by a hot sludge riff, while the climate disaster warning "Endlessly Senseless" lumbers downhill like a mudslide. Matt Crawford is no slouch, either. It's his swampy bass cloud that gives the album's seven-minute closer an apocalyptic sense of grief.
'You' will be released on June 9, 2023 via Season of Mist.
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