Suicide Queen ‘Crowned in Blood’ album out now
Suicide Queen
Los Angeles-based industrial blackened metal band Suicide Queen has released its second full-length album “Crowned in Blood” via COP International. The 11-track album arrives as the follow-up to their 2022 debut “Nymphomaniac” and the 2023 EP “The Heart’s Conceit.”
Vocalist and main songwriter Kay Dolores describes “Crowned in Blood” as follows: “We wanted this record to hurt. And it does. Maybe more so to record it than to listen to it, but you’ll decide for yourself.”
Additional guitars on “Dust” and “This Is How the Bleeding Starts” are provided by Dolores. The closing remix version of “Switchblade Mouth” is handled by producer and guitarist Dorian Dolore, with Joe Gilbert on bass; Dolore also mixed the track, while Graves handled the mastering.
Several titles link back to earlier work. “Your Grief Has Taken Many Forms” and “The Heart’s Conceit” previously appeared on the 2023 EP of the same name, where they were introduced as part of a “new era” for the band. “Switchblade Mouth” first appeared on the 2017 EP “Desiccation,” and is now revisited in both album and remix form.
About Suicide Queen
Suicide Queen is an industrial / metal band from California, originally formed in late 2014 in Oakland by the core line-up of vocalist, programmer and guitarist Kay Dolores, bassist Ira Mortem and guitarist Todd Buller.
The band’s first release, the self-released digital demo EP “Cry Out to Heaven,” was released in August 2016 and introduced tracks “Angel,” “Swan” and the title track. In August 2017, Suicide Queen followed with the EP “Desiccation.”
By 2020, the band joined COP International and appeared on the digital split single “Luna13 and Suicide Queen Split Single”.
A standalone single, “Swan,” followed in early 2021, serving as a bridge between the early EPs and the band’s work with producer John Fryer. In early 2022, the digital single “She Haunts You” was released via COP International followed by ” single ‘”She Haunts You.”
The debut full-length album “Nymphomaniac” followed in 2022, again released through COP International. The album consolidated material from the earlier EPs and introduced new tracks.
In May 2023, Suicide Queen issued the three-track EP “The Heart’s Conceit,” featuring “The Heart’s Conceit,” “Your Grief Has Taken Many Forms” and “Witch (2023).”
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