{"id":17703,"date":"2018-05-15T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17703"},"modified":"2018-05-14T16:34:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T20:34:24","slug":"lucifer-returns-with-new-lineup-new-label-and-a-new-kick-ass-fucking-track-california-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17703","title":{"rendered":"Lucifer Returns with New Lineup, New Label, and a New Kick Ass Fucking Track, &#8220;California Son.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johanna Sadonis&#8217; musical spawn Lucifer is back.\u00a0 This time around they returned with the follow-up to 2015&#8217;s <b>&#8220;Lucifer I&#8221;<\/b> which marks the first studio release of the new <b>LUCIFER<\/b> incarnation now consisting of vocalist <b>Johanna Sadonis<\/b>, guitarist <b>Robin Tidebrink<\/b>, and multi-instrumentalist <b>Nicke Andersson<\/b>, who plays drums and also took over bass and guitar when recording <b>&#8220;Lucifer II&#8221;<\/b>. The band&#8217;s live lineup also features <b>Martin Nordin<\/b> (<b>DEAD LORD<\/b>) on guitar and bass player <b>Alexander Mayr<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Lucifer II&#8221;<\/b> was recorded at the <b>Honk Palace<\/b> in Stockholm. It was mixed by <b>Ola Ersfjord<\/b> (<b>DEAD LORD<\/b>, <b>TRIBULATION<\/b>, <b>PRIMORDIAL<\/b>) at <b>Cuervo Recording Service<\/b> in Madrid.<\/p>\n<p><b>Sadonis<\/b> comments: &#8220;We are beyond thrilled to roll our heavy rock tank to the monster fortress of <b>Century Media<\/b>. What better place to kick off the new chapter! This should go together like <b>Buck Dharma<\/b> and his mustache. Here&#8217;s to an unholy union!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Jens Pr\u00fcter<\/b>, head of A&amp;R at <b>Century Media<\/b> in Europe, adds: &#8220;We are very proud to support <b>LUCIFER<\/b>&#8216;s next chapters. I met <b>Johanna<\/b> a couple of times and was always impressed about her strong vision for <b>LUCIFER<\/b>. The addition of <b>Nicke Andersson<\/b> makes it even more interesting, because he always contributed the highest level of rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll to every band he has been involved in. Looking forward to see <b>LUCIFER<\/b> rising!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A7JCQRHROCk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Originally, <b>LUCIFER<\/b> formed in Berlin back in 2014 consisting of <b>Sadonis<\/b> and members of <b>CATHEDRAL<\/b>, <b>ANGEL WITCH<\/b> and <b>LADYTRON<\/b>. The first seven-inch single, <b>&#8220;Anubis&#8221;<\/b>, and debut album, <b>&#8220;Lucifer I&#8221;<\/b>, were released by British label <b>Rise Above Records<\/b>, quickly establishing the group as a promising new act offering excellent 1970s hard rock with a good dose of proto metal and doom added to the mix. Citing <b>BLACK SABBATH<\/b>, <b>DEEP PURPLE<\/b>, <b>BLUE \u00d6YSTER CULT<\/b>, <b>LUCIFER&#8217;S FRIEND<\/b>, <b>STEPPENWOLF<\/b>, 70&#8217;s <b>HEART<\/b> and <b>FLEETWOOD MAC<\/b> as inspiration, <b>LUCIFER<\/b> corrupted the souls of many and achieved international recognition on tours through Europe, USA, Canada and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>With a shift of constellation within the band in 2016 and <b>Sadonis<\/b> moving from Berlin to Stockholm, <b>LUCIFER<\/b> is now ready for an exciting new chapter in its career. With <b>Nicke Andersson<\/b>, <b>Sadonis<\/b> found a congenial new songwriting partner, and <b>&#8220;Lucifer II&#8221;<\/b> turns out to be a strong sonic statement.<\/p>\n<p>As a first glimpse at what is to come, the doomy single <b>&#8220;Faux Pharaoh&#8221;<\/b> was released in December 2017 and can be heard below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lUDDwcg_VL4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Next up is the launch of the album&#8217;s opening track and first video, <b>&#8220;California Son&#8221;<\/b>. The song will be released as a seven-inch via U.S. label <b>Electric Assault<\/b> and digital single via <b>Century Media Records<\/b> on May 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johanna Sadonis&#8217; musical spawn Lucifer is back.\u00a0 This time around they returned with the follow-up to 2015&#8217;s &#8220;Lucifer I&#8221; which marks the first studio release of the new LUCIFER incarnation now consisting of vocalist Johanna Sadonis, guitarist Robin Tidebrink, and multi-instrumentalist Nicke Andersson, who plays drums and also took over bass and guitar when recording &#8220;Lucifer II&#8221;. The band&#8217;s live lineup also features Martin Nordin (DEAD LORD) on guitar and bass player Alexander Mayr. &#8220;Lucifer II&#8221; was recorded at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[1977,1246],"class_list":["post-17703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news","tag-centry-media","tag-lucifer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}