German act Ghøstkid will release its second album “Hollywood Suicide” on March 22, 2024, via Century Media Records. The band also has shared a video for the new track “FSU,” which can be seen below. Pre-order the new album here.
“The biggest problem that art has nowadays is that it doesn’t hurt anymore,” Ghøstkid vocalist Sebastian “Sushi” Biesler said. “Especially here in Germany, people are so afraid to push boundaries, to make art that makes you think and feel.”
By fall 2021, with the world shutdown seemingly over, Sushi wasn’t content to let his creative yen languish at home in Germany.
“Even though we had made it through COVID, I was missing being able to play live, to really function as a band,” Biesler said. “It didn’t feel real to me. I became distanced from the music.”
A six-week decampment to Los Angeles, California, became the creative fuel for Ghøstkid’s next steps. The last vestiges of Hollywood sleaze, decaying glamour, personal temptation and the still-vibrant creative vibes of the city became the frontman’s “don’t-look-before-you-leap” inspiration for the gestating “Hollywood Suicide.”
The album is a snapshot of an artist finding himself, crawling from his own personal wreckage against a crumbling, mythical Californian milieu. “That’s why ‘Hollywood Suicide’ is the first track,” Biesler said. “If you really want to make it, you have to give a lot. You have to be willing to give up everything. It’s kind of like suicide to the person that you’ve been when you become an artist.”
The matching art adorning the album was created by Aly Wayne Gacy.
“‘FSU’ describes the raw and aggressive lifestyle of not giving a shit about anything and just do whatever you want,” said Biesler, who directed and edited the video in cooperation with Nils Lesser (Vaultroom Production) and Benjamin Klose. “The track was inspired by the Joker from Batman and the pure chaos and anarchy that the character is representing. Even if the lyrics circle around self-destructive behavior, the song is more about the feeling of freedom by dismissing the rules. It’s a track about being a misfit and taking back your power, about being yourself, getting rid of labels and becoming independent—basically a big fuck you …”
“Hollywood Suicide” will be available in the following formats:
- Ltd. CD Digipak
- Ltd. transp. red LP
- Ltd. grey LP (300x) available from cmdistro.de and various other retailers
- Ltd. white-black haze LP (500x) available from Ghøstkid
- Ltd. translucent highlighter yellow LP available in the U.S.
Track listing:
“Hollywood Suicide
“S3x”
“FSU”
“Heavy Rain”
“Valerie”
“Black Cloud”
“Ugly”
“Bløød”
“Murder” (featuring Inhuman)
“Dahlia”
Ghøstkid is set to tour the United States this spring with Black Veil Brides, Creeper and Dark Divine, following a European tour with labelmate Blind Channel.
“Live is where it’s the most real, the most in the moment,” Biesler said. “There’s no sense of boundaries, no sense of gender. I wear what I like as long as it looks cool. Ghøstkid, for me, is how I express my art through the music and my persona. When it comes down to art, you should be free.”
Tour dates:
with Black Veil Brides, Creeper and Dark Divine
4/25 — San Francisco, CA — Fillmore
4/27 — Las Vegas, NV — Sick New World
4/28 — Salt Lake City, UT — The Depot
4/29 — Denver, CO — Ogden Theater
4/30 — Kansas City, MO — The Truman
5/2 — Minneapolis, MN — Fillmore
5/3 — Chicago, IL — Concord Music Hall
5/4 — Green Bay, WI — Epic
5/5 — Detroit, MI — Royal Oak Theater
5/7 — Albany, NY — Empire Live
5/8 — Boston, MA — House of Blues Boston
5/9 — Richmond, VA — The National
5/10 — Raleigh, NC — The Ritz
5/12 — Daytona Beach, FL — Welcome to Rockville*
5/13 — Atlanta, GA — Buckhead Theater
5/15 — New York, NY — Palladium Times Square
5/16 — Philadelphia, PA — Fillmore
5/17 — Columbus, OH — Sonic Temple*
5/18 — Nashville, TN — Marathon Music Works
5/20 — San Antonio, TX — The Aztec Theatre
5/21 — Houston, TX — RISE
5/22 — Dallas, TX — The Factory
5/24 — Tempe, AZ — The Marquee
5/25 — Los Angeles, CA — The Belasco
*Festival
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