CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX Confront Memory and Relapse on New Single “Ravenettes”
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CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX present “Ravenettes”, a central and formative composition from their forthcoming album Sceaduhelm. Written as the first piece for the record, the track established the tonal and emotional framework that would shape the album as a whole. Built on repetition, restraint, and controlled momentum, “Ravenettes” captures a state of psychological vigilance, where suppressed memories resurface without warning and avoidance proves only briefly effective.
“Ravenettes” frames trauma as cyclical rather than resolved, returning again and again as a “glitch in the timeline.” Musically, its stripped-back construction and insistent rhythmic pulse mirror this sense of inevitability, favouring tension over release. Belinda Kordic’s vocal performance remains measured and urgent, carrying the song’s unease without exaggeration. Within the wider context of Sceaduhelm, “Ravenettes” introduces the album’s inward focus on endurance, emotional erosion, and the quiet violence of repetition, setting the foundation for what follows…
Sceaduhelm is out April 17th via Season of Mist.
The official music video for “Ravenettes” was produced in collaboration with 9LITER FILMY, an audiovisual production collective recognised for its cinematic restraint and emphasis on mood-driven storytelling. Known for work that favours atmosphere, repetition, and visual tension over linear narrative, 9LITER FILMY’s approach mirrors the song’s exploration of memory as disruption rather than closure.
Tracklist:
1. One Man Wall of Death (04:14)
2. Ravenettes (04:22)
3. Things Start Falling Apart (05:21)
4. No Epitaph / The Precipice (08:30)
5. The Void (03:49)
6. Hollows End (04:26)
7. Dropout (03:48)
8. Vampire Grave (06:24)
9. Colder and Colder (04:56)
10. Under the Eye (07:07)
11. Tired to the Bone (04:50)
12. Beautiful Destroyer (08:33)
CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX are approaching a new threshold with Sceaduhelm, an album that withdraws from outward spectacle and turns instead toward interior collapse, exhaustion, and moral attrition. Severe, restrained, and emotionally exposed, the record presents itself not as a dramatic statement but as a slow accumulation of unease. Where earlier works often grappled with collective trauma or historical violence, Sceaduhelm listens to what lingers afterward: fatigue, memory, complicity, and the quiet weight of survival. The result is a unified emotional landscape rather than a narrative concept, marked by repetition, patience, and unresolved tension.
Sceaduhelm emerges from this lineage as a narrowing of focus rather than a departure. Written primarily between 2023 and 2025, the album developed through uncertainty, self-questioning, and prolonged doubt. The process was deliberately fluid, allowing compositions to remain open and emotionally vulnerable until late in production. Justin Greaves remains the sole composer of the music, with lyrics written after the fact and assigned to voices according to emotional fit rather than hierarchy. Belinda Kordic, Ryan Patterson, and Justin Storms share vocal duties, each occupying a distinct but aligned psychological register.
