There is absolutely no stopping the Robinson brothers these days. Fresh off the back of a Grammy nomination for 2024’s Happiness Bastards and a nod for the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, The Black Crowes have announced that their tenth studio album, A Pound of Feathers, will be hitting the shelves on March 13th.
To give us a taste of what’s to come, the band have unleashed a video for the new single “Profane Prophecy”, and to say it’s a bit mad would be an understatement. The clip is a fever-dream tribute to the work of Russ Meyer, drenched in red and absolutely packed with devils representing the seven deadly sins. It’s decadent, it’s weird, and it blurs the lines between reality and fantasy in the best way possible.
The visual madness was directed by Dagger Polyester, an artist Chris Robinson discovered in the Los Angeles underground scene (and whose debut album Chris actually produced last year). Dagger enlisted a crew of art students to build sets and design costumes, resulting in something that feels like a proper slice of pulp mythology.
Musically, “Profane Prophecy” is a stomper. Chris Robinson describes it as a song about “the devil you know, the devil you never knew… and you can dance to it.” It sets the tone for the new record, which was reportedly written and recorded in a blistering ten-day session. That’s the kind of old-school, no-nonsense approach we love to see. Instead of over-polishing, they’ve gone for that raw, immediate sound that happens when a band is firing on all cylinders.
With Happiness Bastards proving they’ve still got plenty of creative juice left, and a new record landing just two years later, it’s a cracking time to be a fan of The Black Crowes. You can check out the video below.
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