JOHNNY THE BOY Unveil Music Video For New Track ‘Endlessly Senseless’
May 29th, 2023
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English-Swedish black ‘n’ roll trio Johnny The Boy have released a music video for the track ‘Endlessly Senseless’. Created by Guilherme Henriques, the clip can be viewed below.
Regarding the song, the band stated: “The constant and endless abuse of the natural world and our environment, results in the horrific doom and gloom that comes with it. That shit is on us. Welcome to the beginning of the end.”
Johnny The Boy issue debut full-length studio album You on June 9th, 2023 through Season Of Mist.
The outing can be streamed in its entirety via YouTube below.
Johnny The Boy consists of Crippled Black Phoenix members Belinda Kordic (vocals) and Justin Greaves (guitars, Greaves additionally handling drum duties for Johnny The Boy), as well as Crippled Black Phoenix alumnus and live bassist Matt Crawford.
“It began at a rehearsal with Crippled Black Phoenix many, many years ago,” said Greaves. “We were rehearsing down at Arthur’s, where Crippled Black Phoenix used to practice, and it was during one of those rehearsals that I just got on the guitar, someone else got on the drums and we were just fart-arsing about, with Belinda doing her necro vocals! Then we posted a little clip online and people starting asking, ‘Oh, is this legit?’ Like always, it took fucking years to even think about doing anything, but it was always going to happen.”
“In the background, there’s the fact that in the first band I was ever in, I sang that way,” added Kordic. “I really missed doing that. We both missed that whole Iron Monkey, Varukers, aggressive side of music. That’s the first way of singing that I loved, and I’ve missed doing it. So we always wanted to do this.”
The resultant efforts brought about debut effort You.
“Justin starting working for me at a venue in our hometown, and there was a mention of doing something called World War,” said Crawford. “We went to our rehearsal room for two days. It was the hottest, most uncomfortable sweatiest room ever, and we were trying to write the coldest, bleakest music you could imagine! So it was horrific, but I think we got five tracks out of those two days. Me and Justin were together in Scunthorpe, and Belinda was working remotely in Sweden, and that was before it was cool!”
One track from the initial batch of Johnny The Boy material was ‘No Regrets’, which was placed as the final track of September 2022 Crippled Black Phoenix outing Banefyre. “That was Justin’s idea. When we recorded Banefyre, he said, ‘Why not sneak in and record a Johnny The Boy track?’,” said Kordic. “We did that and ‘No Regrets’ went on the album, and then Michael (Berberian) at Season Of Mist said he wanted a whole album from us.”
“Yeah, ‘No Regrets’ played two roles at the same time,” said Greaves. “It was something pretty outlandish at the end of a Crippled Black Phoenix album, to give everyone a a kick in the bollocks, but it was also our way of saying, ‘We do this other thing, by the way!’”
Guitars, bass and drums were recorded at Chapel Studios in Lincolnshire, England, while vocals were recorded at Kapsylen Studio in Stockholm, Sweden.
“I truly think that Belinda’s vocals are some of the most more visceral, vicious and spiteful I’ve ever heard,” said Greaves. “I love the opening song, ‘Die Already’, it’s just a horrible song. I just love when Belinda’s singing ‘You prick!’ or whatever it is. She’s just spitting venom.”
“It’s all Belinda too,” added Crawford. “It’s all natural. There’s no studio trickery!”
“When I was recording the vocals in Sweden, at the same studio where we recorded most of the vocals for Banefyre, the engineer asked me ‘Why do you sing like that?’” Kordic recalled. “I just said, ‘It’s instead of crying!’ That’s what I do. I let it out that way.”
Kordic’s vocal style lent itself to You’s lyrical content, which “all have different meanings,” Kordic explained. “‘Die Already’ is about dictators. Crossings is about how no one should have to die alone. The last song (‘Without You’) is about Tigger, our cat. Wired is about being really neurotic. ‘Druh’ is about Witold Pilecki who was in the Polish resistance in the Second World War. He got caught on purpose, so that he could get into the concentration camp, to see how the prisoners were being treated. There he discovered what was going on with the Jews, the gypsies, the disabled, and he tried to tell the world. He was a real fucking hero.”
Mixing was handled by Kurt Ballou at GodCity Studio in Salem, Massachusetts, while mastering was overseen by Magnus Lindberg in Stockholm, Sweden.
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The track listing is as follows:
01. ‘Die Already’
02. ‘Grime’
03. ‘He Moves’
04. ‘Endlessly Senseless’
05. ‘Crossings’
06. ‘Druh’
07. ‘Wired’
08. ‘Without You’
Johnny The Boy’s line-up is as follows:
Belinda Kordic (vocals)
Justin Greaves (guitars and drums)
Matt Crawford (bass)
Created by Guilherme Henriques, a music video was released for the track ‘Crossings’. In addition, an official lyric video was issued for the song ‘Druh’. Both clips can also be viewed below.
Promtional photograph by Chantik Photography.
