Johnny the Boy are streaming their debut album on the Season of Mist YouTube channel. Listen to all eight tracks below.

Formed by current and former members of Crippled Black Phoenix, Johnny the Boy have emerged with a vile yet heartfelt spike of black metal. 'You' opens with "Die Already", a gloomy surge of industrial rock that's pierced by the pissed-off shrieks of Belinda Kordic.

"I truly think that Belinda's vocals are some of the most visceral, vicious and spiteful I've ever heard," says Justin Greaves, who refers to himself as a guiterrorist/drum avalanche.

It's an accurate description, too. "Crossings" is scarred by a hot sludge riff, while the climate disaster warning "Endlessly Senseless" lumbers downhill like a mudslide. Matt Crawford is no slouch, either. It's his swampy bass cloud that gives the album's seven-minute closer an apocalyptic sense of grief.

'You' will be released on June 9, 2023 via Season of Mist.

Pre-save the album HERE and pre-order "You" HERE.

Born from a simple idea, and eventually coalescing over the last couple of years into a fully-formed entity, JOHNNY THE BOY make music that fucking hurts. Armed with a scabrous but sculpted blend of ice-cold black metal, excoriating sludge and sinewy, white-knuckle rock’n’roll, the trio’s musical identity has arrived, perfectly imperfect and ready to eviscerate. Formed around a creative core of vocalist Belinda Kordic, guitarist Justin Greaves (both members of Crippled Black Phoenix) and bassist Matt Crawford (CBP alumnus and live bassist), JOHNNY THE BOY began life as an instinctive grab for something darker and nastier.

“It began at a rehearsal with Crippled Black Phoenix many, many years ago,” says Greaves. “We were rehearsing down at Arthur’s, where CBP 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,” adds 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.”

Brought together by a love of dark, twisted and extreme music and energized by an opportunity to return to the full-bore hostilities of their earlier creative years, JOHNNY THE BOY‘s debut album 'You' is the final proof that the best ideas cannot be stopped. A collaborative effort that brought the evil best out of everyone involved, it’s an album that has been stewed in real blood, sweat and tears. But mainly sweat.

Recording Line-up:
Belinda - Vokillz
Justin Greaves - Guiterrorist & Drumbs
Matt Crawford - Bass Avalanche

Links:
https://www.instagram.com/johnny_the_boy
https://www.facebook.com/JTB444UVO

Recording Studio: Chapel Studios, Lincolnshire UK, Kapsylen Studio, Stockholm Sweden
Mixing: Kurt Ballou @ GodCity Studio, Salem MA. USA.
Mastering: Magnus Lindberg - Magnus Lindberg Productions, Stockholm, Sweden.

Artwork: JOHNNY THE BOY

Biography: Dom Lawson

Photos: Chantik Photography – www.chantik.nl

Pre-order: https://redirect.season-of-mist.com/JTB-You

Pre-save: https://orcd.co/jtbyoupresave

Formats:
Digital
CD Digipak
Vinyl in various colors