{"id":33368,"date":"2025-09-03T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/the-childrens-crusade-black-bruised-broken-down\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T05:45:00","slug":"the-childrens-crusade-black-bruised-broken-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/the-childrens-crusade-black-bruised-broken-down\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CHILDREN&#8217;S CRUSADE &#8211; &#8220;Black, Bruised &amp; Broken Down&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Childrens-Crusade-CD-550x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Childrens-Crusade-CD-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Childrens-Crusade-CD-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Childrens-Crusade-CD-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Childrens-Crusade-CD-636x636.jpg 636w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Childrens-Crusade-CD.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Eighties industrial rock<br>THE CHILDREN&#8217;S CRUSADE<br>&#8220;Black, Bruised, and Broken Down<\/strong>&#8220;<br>Album (in-house production)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Children&#8217;s Crusade have chosen <strong>the<\/strong> <strong>increasing mental<\/strong> decline and loss of identity as the theme of their debut album. Mastermind Jason Schmal&#8217;s vocals perfectly convey the moods between madness and decline. Thematically, &#8220;Black, Bruised, and Broken Down&#8221; is no walk in the park, but it shines with its sophisticated eighties rock sounds, peppered with electronic industrial elements, without remaining stuck in the past. For half an hour, the Chicagoans lead us through the dark history and convince us with a natural looseness and authenticity.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-small-font-size\">Maria Vain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Recorded in:<\/strong> Homestudio<br><strong>Produced by:<\/strong> Jason Schmal<br><strong>Mastered by:<\/strong> John Scrip (Massive Mastering, Illinois)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to &#8220;Black, Bruised &amp; Broken Down&#8221; here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/intl-de\/album\/4oLe9f0HpRP1f0XseBWZhp?si=bBdHy9Y2Qx26KOpznRamFQ\" title=\"Spotify Embed: Black, Bruised, and Broken Down\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/4oLe9f0HpRP1f0XseBWZhp?si=bBdHy9Y2Qx26KOpznRamFQ&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighties industrial rockTHE CHILDREN&#8217;S CRUSADE&#8220;Black, Bruised, and Broken Down&#8220;Album (in-house production) The Children&#8217;s Crusade have chosen the increasing mental decline and loss of identity as the theme of their debut album. 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