Crippled Black Phoenix was formed in 2004 by Justin Greaves as an ever-evolving musical project driven by emotional inquiry and moral tension. Across two decades, the project has built a singular catalogue rooted in human fragility, endurance, and resistance to complacency. 'Sceaduhelm' represents the project's most inward-looking and austere statements to date. Written and recorded between 2023 and 2025, the new album turns away from grand historical narratives to examine emotional erosion, fatigue, and quiet collapse. Rather than a traditional concept record, it unfolds as a unified psychological space, where repetition, restraint, and unease carry as much weight as melody. The songwriting favors slow builds and unresolved tension, resisting catharsis in favour of endurance. Vocals are shared between Belinda Kordic, Ryan Patterson, and Justin Storms, each offering a distinct but complementary perspective within the same emotional terrain. Themes of burnout, memory, violence against the vulnerable, and love already worn thin surface without spectacle. Produced by Justin Greaves and mixed by Iver Sandoy, the sound remains deliberately raw and exposed, avoiding comfort or excess.

A1. One Man Wall of Death
A2. Ravenettes
A3. Things Start Falling Apart
B1. No Epitaph / The Precipice
B2. The Void
B3. Hollow's End
C1. Dropout
C2. Vampire Grave
C3. Colder and Colder
D1. Under the Eye
D2. Tired to the Bone
D3. Beautiful Destroyer