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German gothic metal band
CHILD OF CAESAR
has released album
‘Spirit & Liberation’
track-list:
Scorpion
Your Eyes On Me
Lisa
Ritual Summer
Moon 24
Godchildren
Seven
Native Tongue
B.M.T.C.
Exitus
San Francisco
pic by Mathias Blom
Shortly after the release of their melancholic doomy Gothic Metal version of Scott Mackenzie’s hippie cult song “San Francisco”, which makes clear in the disillusioning lyric video that the spirit of the hippie era with dreams of peace, non-violence, honorableness and endless fun has poorly withered in the meantime, the second CHILD OF CAESAR album “Spirit & Liberation”
has been released, on August 26, 2022, via Dr. Music Records.
Mastermind and guitarist André Marcussen has stepped out of the shadows of the past with his project and recorded the sinister follow-up to 2015’s album “Love In Black” with the current line-up.
As a harbinger, the unfortunately prophetic anti-war lyric video for “Your Eyes On Me”, was released last year, shocking with martial image sequences.
In spring the first official single “Seven” followed
with which the band gave further insights into the new multi-faceted album and at the same time they released a visually stunning animated music video, illustrating the lyrics in a doleful technocratic juggernaut that suppresses freedom and humanity.
Afterward, CHILD OF CAESAR put the pedal to the metal in terms of hardness and wild aggressiveness, celebrating the last seconds before the “Exitus” in morbid rage with a sweaty live performance in the music video.
The recording and mixing of the album were done at guitarist Christopher F. Kassad’s Tones & Tunes Studio, and for the mastering, the musicians once again entrusted Mika Jussila of Finnvox Studio (Amorphis, Solstafir, Nightwish). The songs are an equally sinister feast for the ears of Goth fans and metalheads who miss the ferocity of Tiamat’s early records while appreciating Satyricon and not denying themselves the punky Bad Religion vibes.
German gothic metal act
CHILD OF CAESAR
have released new single/video
‘San Francisco’
CHILD OF CAESAR release disillusioning Gothic Metal adaptation of the hippie anthem “San Francisco” along with illustrative lyric video.
A few weeks before the release of “Spirit & Liberation”, CHILD OF CAESAR grant today, on August 11, 2022, another insight into the new multi-faceted album with the new single “San Francisco”, a melancholic-doomy Gothic Metal version of Scott Mackenzie’s cult song from the hippie era.
For this, the English video artist Andy Pilkington of Very Metal Art (Rotting Christ, Skindred, Visionatica) has produced an atmospheric, oppressive lyric video, which provides the song
with the ideal visual dimension to get the album,
to be released on 08/26/2022, some more attention.
CHILD OF CAESAR’s today’s third single, “San Francisco”, dates back to 1967, when the legendary song glorifying California’s Pacific city
and its burgeoning hippie culture first hit the airwaves.
The gloomy version, with its disillusioning lyric video, makes clear that the spirit of the hippie era with dreams of peace, non-violence, honorableness and endless fun has poorly withered in the meantime.
German gothic metal act
CHILD OF CAESAR
have released new single/video
‘Exitus’
discography:
2022 Spirit & Liberation
2015 Love In Black
With just the right pinch of audacious energy, the German Gothic Metal band CHILD OF CAESAR released “Exitus”, its aggressive second new single and the accompanying
impulsive music video with unbridled dynamics.
The song is a stormy ode to death, with brutal Old School Death Metal growls soundtracking the hazy thoughts just before the final breath.
The band shows their angry and reckless face in the energetic music video by Swedish director and photographer Matthias Blom (e.g. Darkane, Corroded, Lik) and offers an exciting contrast to the catchy Gothic Metal of the previous single “Seven”.
With “Exitus” CHILD OF CAESAR demonstrate the musical complexity of their new full-length “Spirit & Liberation”.
For the sinister follow-up to 2015’s album “Love In Black”, mastermind and guitarist André Marcussen has stepped out of the shadows of the past with his project and recorded the eleven songs with the current line-up, which will be released worldwide on CD and digitally on August 26, 2022, via Dr. Music Records.
The recording and mixing of the album was done at guitarist Christopher F. Kassad’s Tones & Tunes Studio, and for the mastering, the musicians once again entrusted Mika Jussila of Finnvox Studio (Amorphis, Solstafir, Nightwish).
The songs of CHILD OF CAESAR are an equally sinister feast for the ears of Goth fans and metalheads who miss the ferocity of Tiamat’s early records while appreciating Satyricon and not denying themselves the punky Bad Religion vibes.
With the new music video, CHILD OF CAESAR put the pedal to the metal in terms of hardness and wild aggressiveness.
German gothic metal band
CHILD OF CAESAR
announce new album
‘spirit & liberation’
line-up:
Patrick Pagliaro – Vocals
André Marcussen – Guitar
Christopher F. Kassad – Guitar
Tobias Habel – Bass
Felix Haun – Drums
Mastermind and guitarist André Marcussen has stepped out of the shadows of the past with his project CHILD OF CAESAR and recorded the sinister follow-up to 2015’s album “Love In Black” with the current line-up.
Heavily 90s-influenced Gothic Metal paired with wistful melancholy and inner strife forms the basis.
On the new monument “Spirit & Liberation” with its eleven songs also, Punk and Black Metal influences play a role and thus adding raw and
wild moments to the foundation.
The voice of the new singer Patrick Pagliaro fits ideally to this.
Sometimes scratchy-driving, sometimes gloomy-melodic,
but always with the right pinch of audacious energy.
The band already provided a first glimpse at the beginning of 2021 with the unfortunately prophetic anti-war lyric video for “Your Eyes On Me”.
The recording and mixing of the album, which will be released via Dr. Music Records on 08/26/2022, was done at guitarist Christopher F. Kassad’s Tones & Tunes Studio, and for the mastering, the musicians once again entrusted Mika Jussila of Finnvox Studio (Amorphis, Solstafir, Nightwish). For the artwork, the band leader relied on the outstanding artist Eliran Kantor, who caused a sensation with impressive cover oil paintings for bands such as Kreator, Tristania or My Dying Bride and Thrashwolf graphic designer Logan Francis Gray (e.g. Metallica, Slash, Crowbar) for the layout.
The songs of CHILD OF CAESAR are an equally sinister feast for the ears of Goth fans and metalheads who miss the ferocity of Tiamat’s early records while appreciating Satyricon and not denying themselves the punky Bad Religion vibes.
This extraordinary blend makes “Spirit & Liberation” a captivating experience
2011, André Marcussen gathered an illustrious group of musicians from the Metal underground, such as Autumn Eyes singer Daniel Mitchell, to realize his vision of Metal beyond the mainstream.
Four years later, CHILD OF CAESAR first attracted attention with dark, avant-garde Gothic Metal on their debut “Love In Black”.
Now, the follow-up “Spirit & Liberation” is finally being released and shows a more multi-faceted band that will cause a furor with its relentlessly wild Dark Metal kaleidoscope.
New at the mic is Patrick Pagliaro, who, just like bass player Tobias Habel, has made a name for himself with the bands Slomind and Bunghole. Guitarist Christopher F. Kassad (Ex-Jesus On Extasy, Aeranea) is also part of the band and Felix Haun (Karabooza) provides a lot of punch on the drums.
The album’s opener is “Scorpion”, which is inspired by the ruthless assault by religious fanatics on the Bataclan club in Paris in 2015.
“Ritual Summer” is rooted in the summer of ’69 and references its shady sides with the Manson murders, drug abuse and the escalating Vietnam War. The lyrics to the first single “Seven” revolve around youth and its rebellion against a slave morality system and the grandeurs of ethics and human reason.
Appropriately, the band has produced a haunting, menacing music video with Maria Goruleva of All4Band Design (e.g. Ignea, Diamond Head, Doomeye).
“Exitus”, CHILD OF CAESAR’s second single, accompanied by a lyric video, is a stormy ode to death, with brutal Old School Death Metal growls soundtracking the hazy thoughts just before the final breath.
It continues with the quieter “San Francisco”, a melancholic doomy Gothic Metal adaptation of Scott Mackenzie’s hippie-era cult song.
For this, English video artist Andy Pilkington of Very Metal Art (Rotting Christ, Skindred, Ascend The Hollow) has produced an atmospherically oppressive lyric video.
With “Spirit & Liberation” CHILD OF CAESAR have created a multi-layered masterpiece of sinister Goth Metal sound art with profound lyrics about sensitive thoughts on life and death.
The new songs take the fundamental humanistic undertone of André Marcussen’s project to another level with his homage to a mature world without gods and religion.
Lovers of gloomy albums with a 90s Dark Metal feeling will get bright eyes when this menacing album unfolds acoustically in their four walls.
To heighten the anticipation for the new songs, CHILD OF CAESAR have announced not only the cover artwork but also the tracklist of the new Gothic Metal opus.