The Crown announce new album ‘Crown Of Thorns’
THE CROWN have announced a new album!
Titled Crown Of Thorns, the upcoming album from the Swedish death metal band is the follow-up to 2021’s Royal Destroyer, and is scheduled to be released in October this year, via Metal Blade Records.
The upcoming album was recorded by Marko Tervonen (Studio-MT), mixed and mastered by Jonas Kjellgren (Black Lounge Studios). For the upcoming album, the band made distinctly different creative choices to ensure that the LP’s ten songs would stand as a unique collection. “For me, Cobra Speed Venom and Royal Destroyer are like siblings,” says guitarist Marko Tervonen. “[We wanted] to make sure that we would take a step forward, get a bit more out of our comfort zone on Crown Of Thorns. We really wanted this to sound like a new, fresh album and I believe we did it.”
The approach was full circle and inventive. “I had the idea that we should work a bit backwards. I pushed to create the artwork very early in the process. We wanted the album cover to include a bridge from our hometown Trollhättan called Strömkarlsbron. It has this cool statue on it named ’Strömkarlen‘ [a water spirit]. It made sense to loop it all back to the town where everything started; as most people know, we were called Crown Of Thorns for a few years before we had to shorten the name.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, THE CROWN have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Churchburner.
Speaking about the new song, Tervonen says, “Churchburner starts out with a nod to Postmortem [SLAYER] but then explodes into quite a different type of monster. It has a great groove to it, and it basically has a tempo/beat that we don’t use that often. It‘s mostly in triplets. It‘s a very strong song with Johan being on fire here and Marcus adds a killer solo as well.”
Watch the official music video for Churchburner
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. I Hunt With The Devil
2. Churchburner
3. Martyrian
4. Gone To Hell
5. Howling At The Warfield
6. The Night Is Now
7. God-King
8. The Agitator
9. Where Nightmares Belong
10. The Storm That Comes
11. Eternally Infernal (Bonus Track)
12. No Fuel For God (Bonus Track)
13. Mind Collapse (Bonus Track)
Crown Of Thorns is set for release on October 11th via Metal Blade Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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