GetYourRockOut recently conducted an interview with the Swedish all-girl hard rock quartet CRUCIFIED BARBARA. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below.
CRUCIFIED BARBARA will release its fourth studio album, “In The Red”, on September 15 via Despotz Records. The CD was recorded at Music A Matic studio in Gothenburg with producer Chips Kiesby and engineer Henryk Lip, and is the follow-up to 2012’s “The Midnight Chase”.
“In The Red” track listing:
01. I Sell My Kids For Rock ‘N’ Roll
02. To Kill A Man
03. Electric Sky
04. The Ghost Inside
05. Don’t Call On Me
06. In The Red
07. Lunatic #1
08. Shadows
09. Finders Keepers
10. Do You Want Me
11. Follow The Stream
The song “Electric Sky” can be streamed using the SoundCloud widget below.
In a recent interview with Metal Underground, CRUCIFIED BARBARA frontwoman Mia Coldheart stated about the new CD: “We have taken our songwriting to a higher level. We have worked harder on the grooves and vocal melodies this time.
“We never had any rules when writing our songs to force them in any directions or genres, and this time when we wrote during this concentrated period of time, we were a bit afraid that all songs would sound the same. But we worked really hard on each song and didn’t leave it until we were really satisfied with it, and the result, I think, is our best album so far and full of songs with life of their own that don’t sound the same at all.”
CRUCIFIED BARBARA‘s new video, “To Kill A Man”, can be seen below. Mia told Metal Underground about the track’s title and lyrics: “The song was mainly written in frustration over the Swedish police chief who dedicated his career to fighting sexism, standing up for equal rights and against abuse and rape of women. Then he went in prison for aggravated rape, purchasing sex, assault and more, which, of course, put the whole country in shock when it was revealed.
“Rape, sexual abuse, and violence is everyday news. You find the real cases in the papers every day, and you find the never-ending fiction cases about rape, murder, violence in movies and in TV series every day. We’re constantly fed this and it feels like it’s becoming normalized. Until the day it’s your mother, sister, friend or girlfriend who gets attacked. Or your dad or son or brother… Then (that I wish no one) the thought will probably hit you too sometime: how does it feel to kill a man.
“This song, and our intention with the song is not that we want to kill men, to clarify to the ones that can’t think further than a songtitle and there for get personally offended. The song is about the constant fear, anger, and sadness that we — from a woman’s perspective — feel about rape, rapists, and for the constantly growing number of victims of all kind of sexism. The song could even have been called ‘To Kill A Woman’ and still be about the same subject, ’cause raping someone is hurting someone on the inside for the rest of her/his life; a life can be totally destroyed. But for the song, I really don’t think that it had made any difference for the guys who get blinded [with] rage every time a woman or man speaks up for women’s — or as I prefer — human rights.”
Source: Blabbermouth
