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    “Creatures Of Light & Darkness” is the fourth studio album by the Hamburg neo-prog band Johnny Bob. The album is produced by Johnny Bob founder and multi-instrumentalist Jörg Purfürst. He’s written all songs together with his brother and singer Carsten Díaz, who is also responsible for the lyrics.

    In addition to Jörg Purfürst and Carsten Díaz, drummer Philip Mestwerdt completes the line-up. Various guest musicians are involved in the musical implementation of the album, above all guitarist Jürgen Ufer & Ole Schützler / Keyboards.
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lyrics

Zen Comic Show

I) Grotesque Swarmride

Into the valley on a midnight train
Get ready to be eaten alive (in a swarmride)
Who’s to blame, we are all insane,
Zen Comic Show (applause applause)
Coincidences on an alcoholic eve
Queens and clowns (wearing mussel crowns)
The stars in the window and a bird on the pole
Tycoons in cars (on Rubljovka)
And the darkness thickens every day
It looks like a steep incline (on the borderline)
Who’s to blame we are all insane
Zen Comic Show
And the ivory towers crumble away

Where are you in this dawn of the fallen

And the darkness thickens every day
Tycoons in cars (cocaine and vodka)
Into the valley on a midnight train
Zen Comic Show

Into the valley on a midnight train
Get ready to be eaten alive (in a swarmride)
Who’s to blame, we are all insane,
Zen Comic Show (applause applause)
Coincidences on an alcoholic eve
Queens and clowns (wearing mussel crowns)
The stars in the window and a bird on the pole
Tycoons in cars (on Rubljovka)

Where are you in this dawn of the fallen

Into the valley on a midnight train
Get ready to be eaten alive


ii) Ad Shine

Now you have fallen behind
The snow keeps you blind
When there is nothing left undone
I will follow under the sun

When I see where I belong
And your nightlight fades
When there is nothing left to say
I will stay out of your way

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from Creatures of Light and Darkness, released May 27, 2022

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Johnny Bob Hamburg, Germany

Johnny Bob is a neo-prog band from Hamburg. They form 2017 in memory of two school bands which disband after their members graduate in the early nineties.

German magazine “eclipsed” rates Johnny Bob in October 2019 to become one of the “big bands in the national progressive scene”. ... more

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