"The biggest problem that art has nowadays is that it no longer hurts," says GHØSTKID singer and provocateur Sebastian "Sushi" Biesler. "Especially here in Germany, people are so afraid of crossing boundaries. To make art that makes people think and feel." So it's not surprising that Sushi and co. have left the borders of their home country with GHØSTKID's second album, HOLLYWOOD SUICIDE, to further develop their energetic, hook-laden nu-metalcore. The result is as sincere as it is musically ambitious and sonically flawless. GHØSTKID deliver goth-nu-rock-core that will raise the already high bar that GHØSTKID set in 2020 with their self-titled, pandemic-shadowed Century Media debut. From the trap-metal-inspired beats and crushing metalcore riffing that opens the album's title track to the unsettling melodies of the elegiac closing track "Helena Drive", "HOLLYWOOD SUICIDE" is a perfect snapshot of an artist crawling out of his own personal wreckage from a crumbling, mythical Californian milieu.
The whole thing can be experienced live on tour in October - after successful support tours for Bad Omens and Blind Channel, now finally as a headliner!