Crippled Black Phoenix is a post-rock supergroup

Supergroup (music)

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 from the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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. Several musicians have contributed to Crippled Black Phoenix's albums and play with them during their live shows.

History

Crippled Black Phoenix is a collective of musicians from many other bands (including notably Iron Monkey

Iron Monkey (band)

Iron Monkey was a sludge metal band that formed in Nottingham, England in 1994. The original members were Justin Greaves , Johnny Morrow , Jim Rushby , Steve Watson and Doug Dalziel...

, Gonga

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Gonga is a heavy "stoner rock" band based in Bristol, UK. Formed in early 1998 by brothers George Elgie , Thomas Elgie and William Smalley as Octane Bud, they were later joined by Joe Volk in 2001 when the trio were offered their first gig at Shambala Festival. They signed to Invada Records in...

, Mogwai

Mogwai

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, Electric Wizard

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 and others). In 2004, Justin Greaves began recording primitive sounds he had in mind for years. He was encouraged by Dominic Aitchison

Dominic Aitchison

Dominic Aitchison is a Scottish bassist. He is best known as the bassist and founding member of post-rock band Mogwai. Aside from Mogwai, he also plays bass guitar in Crippled Black Phoenix and Stage Blood....

, and their ideas would lay the backbone for Crippled Black Phoenix.

Although originally having an unorthodox start, since all the band members were part of and busy with other projects at the time of the band's founding, Crippled Black Phoenix remained committed to staying together and forged their sound. The band writes what they call "endtime ballads," signifying both the slightly macabre nature of their songs and their unusual blend of styles as the final evolution in music. This blend has led to them being called everything from stoner-prog to freak-folk to doom.

Crippled Black Phoenix have made live shows a focus and have performed in unusual venues, using Victorian-era instruments in tandem with more modern instruments.

Current members

• Justin Greaves - electric guitar
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  , drums
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  , saw
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  , keyboard
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  , acoustic guitar
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  , banjo
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  , effects, samples
• Joe Volk - voice, acoustic guitar
• Karl Demata - electric guitar
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  , dobro
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  , slide guitar
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• Daisy Chapman - piano
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  , keyboards
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• Charlotte Nicholls - cello
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  , voice
• Brian Dixon - drums & percussion
• Christian Heilmann - bass guitar
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• Mark Furnevall - synths & keyboards

Past members

• Kostas Panagiotou
• Dominic Aitchison
  Dominic Aitchison
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• Nial McGaughey
• Andy Semmens
• Charlie Romijn
• Matt Williams
• Thomas Elgie
• George Elgie
• Dave Greaves
• Mark Ophidian
• Max Milton
• Jon Attwood
• Jack Rampling
• John E Vistic
• Guy Metcalffe
• Geoff Barrow
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• Paul Harris
• Suzi Gale
• Michael L.B. West
• Danny Ashberry
• Merijn Royaards

A Love of Shared Disasters (2006)

1. "The Lament of the Nithered Mercenary" – 2:36
2. "Really, How'd It Get This Way?" – 4:49
3. "The Whistler" – 9:45
4. "Suppose I Told The Truth" – 5:03
5. "When You're Gone" – 5:35
6. "Long Cold Summer" – 10:34
7. "Goodnight, Europe" – 6:08
8. "You Take the Devil Out of Me" – 4:23
9. "The Northern Cobbler" – 7:32
10. "My Enemies I Fear Not But, Protect Me from My Friends" – 6:34
11. "I'm Almost Home" – 5:32
12. "Sharks & Storms" / "Blizzard of Horned Cats" – 8:19

200 Tons of Bad Luck (2009)

1. "Burnt Reynolds"
2. "Rise Up and Fight"
3. "Time of Ye Life/Born for Nothing/Paranoid Arm of Narcoleptic Empire"
4. "Wendigo"
5. "Littlestep"
6. "Crossing the Bar"
7. "Whissendine"
8. "A Real Bronx Cheer"
9. "444"
10. "A Hymn for a Lost Soul"
11. "A Lack of Common Sense"
12. "I Am Free Today I Perished"

The Resurrectionists/Night Raider (2009)

1. "Burnt Reynolds"
2. "Rise Up and Fight"
3. "Whissendine"
4. "Crossing the Bar"
5. "200 Tons of Bad Luck"
6. "Please Do Not Stay Here"
7. "Song For The Loved"
8. "A Hymn for a Lost Soul"
9. "444"
10. "Littlestep"
11. "Human Nature Dictates The Downfall of Humans"

1. "Time of Ye Life/Born for Nothing/Paranoid Arm of Narcoleptic Empire"
2. "Wendigo"
3. "Bat Stack"
4. "Along Where The Wind Blows"
5. "Onward Ever Downwards"
6. "A Lack of Common Sense"
7. "Trust No One"
8. "I Am Free Today I Perished"

I, Vigilante (2010)

1. "Troublemaker"
2. "We Forgotten Who We Are"
3. "Fantastic Justice"
4. "Bastogne Blues"
5. "Of A Lifetime"
6. "Burning Bridges"

External links

-BalconyTV Poznan performance in June 2011.