Make way for GHØSTKID.
Building on the success of their debut album, which took them on the road as well as to a number of European festivals, the band led by Sebastian « GHØSTKID » Biesler (vocals, ex-Eskimo Callboy) accompanied by Jappo van Glory (guitar), Chris Kisseler (guitar), Stanislaw Czywil (bass, To The Rats And Wolves) and Steve Joakim (drums, Zornheym) announce the release of Hollywood Suicide in 2024.
The musicians attack with HOLLYWOOD SUICIDE and its blend of modern and apocalyptic music, which lets howls and simple but aggressive riffs meet an ominous electronic basis. A few clean vocals add the chorus a unifying touch before the sound softens on S3X and its haunting yet surprising melancholy, proving that the band can also impose its universe on slower elements, before bursting into flames again on FSU, which will obviously motivate its live audience. The choruses remain intense and catchy, but the explosion is the strongest on the break, creating a real contrast with the disquieting HEAVY RAIN, where clean vocals and Trap combine to tint the composition with a certain soaring darkness, while offering some heavier parts. The striking final leads us to VALERIE, a rather short and intriguing composition where the frontman places his voice over a fairly calm instrumental, before returning to raw energy with BLACK CLOUD, which Metalcore roots ignite without difficulty, leaving the choruses to return to simpler patterns. The album continues with UGLY and its angst-ridden keyboards, which give the riffs a heavy atmosphere while retaining the few waves of aggression that lead us to BLØØD and its stressful approach coupled with pure fury thrown in at full speed. Everything in this track encourages us to break our necks screaming, then it’s in collaboration with German producer INHUMAN that the band lends its suffocating touch to MURDER, a new composition that mixes varied and driving, albeit very obscure, Industrial influences. DAHLIA returns to imposing keyboards that frame the advance between waves of unleashed energy, then the band places a touch of gothic glamour to HELENA DRIVE, its latest composition, creating a veil of strange false sweetness where the band closes the album on a very different note.
GHØSTKID have not silenced their fury on Hollywood Suicide, offering devastating explosions that include ever more influences to get you moving in every possible way while taking risks. To be confirmed on stage!
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