With their sophomore full-length “Gotta Light?”, dark rock innovators CRONE are cruising in a high octane fuelled hotrod. Channeling their personal musical inspirations that range from ALICE IN CHAINS, via KILLING JOKE, NEW MODEL ARMY, and JOY DIVISION to PINK FLOYD among many others, the Germans leave their very own and personal mark on the genre that has been brought back to the forefront of interest by acts such as GHOST in recent years.
Burn, baby, burn! When the creative flame seems to have burned all of an artist’s soul to ash the next steps are falling into a black hole, crisis, and with luck eventually catharsis. CRONE vocalist and guitarist Phil Jonas had come to the end of the road with ground-breaking German black metal pioneers SECRETS OF THE MOON. The band’s latest albums had already moved gradually from black metal towards dark rock.
While the composer, guitarist, and singer had felt tired, burned out, and empty, working on new songs for CRONE provided the spark that kindled the firestorm of fresh ideas and led to the creation of “Gotta Light?”. The album title was inspired by the haunting eighth episode of David Lynch’s masterpiece TV series “Twin Peaks”. A corresponding element of the mysterious and surreal permeates all of the new songs that revolve around topics such as the hope of receiving signals from the afterlife (‘Waiting for Ghosts’), shattered dreams (‘Abyss Road’), and a guiding last will (‘Gemini’).