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German gothic metal band Child Of Caesar has released a new album, Spirit & Liberation, via Dr. Music Records on CD and digitally. 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 eleven songs with the current line-up.
Heavily 90s-influenced gothic metal paired with wistful melancholy and inner strife form the basis. On the new monument Spirit & Liberation also, punk and black metal influences play a role and thus adding raw and wild moments to the foundation. The band already provided the first glimpse at the beginning of 2021 with the unfortunately prophetic anti-war lyric video for "Your Eyes On Me", which shocks with martial image sequences and was followed by a rebel against the Slavish moral system with the single "Seven" and its threatening video.
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 late summer experience.
In 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, was finally released and shows a more multi-faceted band that will cause a furore 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.
With Spirit & Liberation, Child Of Caesar 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 within their four walls. Try it digitally - it's available right below. Link
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