The Crown Premiere New Single & Music Video “Churchburner” From Upcoming New Album “Crown Of Thorns”
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Sweden’s death metal outfit The Crown have announced “Crown Of Thorns” as the title of their twelfth studio album, set for release on October 11th through Metal Blade Records. The album was recorded at Studio-MT in their hometown of Trollhättan, Sweden, with rhythm guitarist Marko Tervonen taking on production duties. “Churchburner” the latest single from the effort and an official music video for it are now available for streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you below.
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Comments Tervonen:
“‘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.”
Discussing the album and the band’s accomplishments with it, Tervonen adds:
“For me, ‘Cobra Speed Venom‘ and ‘Royal Destroyer‘ are like siblings. [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.
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.
I wanted something really fast, melodic, heavy, epic, punky. Areas we’ve touched before, but step it up to a new level. And to throw in a few surprises was also part of the process.
We decided to tune up to D from C. We played standard E tuning on our four first albums, then we slowly went over to D and from ‘Possessed 13‘ and forward we tuned down to C. So now we have reversed the course and are climbing slowly back to E! But the lighter D tuning added so much better chugs and tones that we felt might be missing a bit on some of the latest records.”
