{"id":90225,"date":"2021-10-29T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T23:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=90225"},"modified":"2022-04-23T21:23:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T20:23:20","slug":"news-lucifer-release-fourth-studio-album-lucifer-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-lucifer-release-fourth-studio-album-lucifer-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"LUCIFER Release Fourth Studio Album \u2018Lucifer IV\u2019 (October 29th, 2021) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

LUCIFER Release Fourth Studio Album \u2018Lucifer IV\u2019<\/strong><\/span>
\nOctober 29th, 2021<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Swedish \/ German hard rock band Lucifer issued fourth full-length studio album Lucifer IV<\/em> on October 29th, 2021 through Century Media Records.<\/p>\n

Regarding the cover artwork, vocalist Johanna Platow Andersson said: \u201cAs a kid I was fascinated by Madonna\u2019s \u2018Like A Prayer\u2019. A sexually liberated and very powerful business woman dancing in front of burning crosses. But that was considered self indulgent and blasphemous to many men, and unfortunately also some women. It was the ultimate provocation of \u2018the whore\u2019. To me figures like her and so many other women that try to express themselves freely and the backlash that follows, are symbolized by the eternal witch that gets put up on the stake and must be burnt to death. As a female in this world and in the business I\u2019ve had my own share of emotional and physical abuse. It has not made me bitter but very defiant.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe artwork, as well as some of the lyrical content of this album is my personal \u2018fuck you\u2019 to the patriarchy, to the men and their codependent women that have or have tried to belittle, gaslight, emotionally assault and spread untruths about me – the ones that tried to keep me from making music. Did I have to sign a contract to keep me silent in the past? Yes I have. But, here I am, continuing to make one album after the next with my great peers in Lucifer. Try to put me on the stake and I\u2019ll laugh in your face. You can\u2019t hold down my spirit.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can also look at the cover this way; the woman gets the role assigned of the ever so maternal holy Mary or the whore but not Jesus? So I decided I\u2019m gonna get up on that damn cross myself then. Time to move over. I drew a sketch and we had it built by our cross carpenter general. Unfortunately not by Jesus, the carpenter, himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of my favourite photographers, Ester Segarra, masterfully captured the real life scene after my mock idea, that consisted of a wooden Jesus on a crucifix set aglow from below to symbolise the burning fire of the stake. If you see this cover as a mockery of Christianity – great – whatever tickles you! But it is so much more than that. And that is just the cover. I cannot wait to let the music speak, come album release!\u201d<\/p>\n

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The track listing is as follows:<\/p>\n

01. \u2018Archangel Of Death\u2019
\n02. \u2018Wild Hearses\u2019
\n03. \u2018Crucifix (I Burn For You)\u2019
\n04. \u2018Bring Me His Head\u2019
\n05. \u2018Mausoleum\u2019
\n06. \u2018The Funeral Pyre\u2019
\n07. \u2018Cold As A Tombstone\u2019
\n08. \u2018Louise\u2019
\n09. \u2018Nightmare\u2019
\n10. \u2018Orion\u2019
\n11. \u2018Phobos\u2019<\/p>\n

Lucifer\u2019s line-up is as follows:<\/p>\n

Johanna Platow Andersson (lead vocals)
\nMartin Nordin (guitar)
\nLinus Bj\u00f6rklund (guitar)
\nHarald G\u00f6thblad (bass)
\nNicke Andersson (drums, ex-Entombed \/ ex-Hellacopters)<\/p>\n

Music videos were filmed for the tracks \u2018Bring Me His Head\u2019 and \u2018Crucifix (I Burn For You)\u2019, while an official lyric video was created for the song \u2018Wild Hearses\u2019. In addition, a visualiser video was released for the track \u2018Orion\u2019. All four clips can be viewed below.<\/p>\n

Third studio record Lucifer III<\/em><\/a> was released<\/a> in March 2020 via Century Media.<\/p>\n

Promotional photograph by Ester Segarra.<\/em><\/p>\n