The Crown release a new single “Churchburner” and details of their upcoming new album

The Crown, a Swedish death metal band, have decided to call their twelfth studio album “Crown Of Thorns.” That album will be released by Metal Blade Records on October 11th. The group’s hometown of Trollhättan, Sweden hosted recording sessions for it at Studio-MT, with production overseen by rhythm guitarist Marko Tervonen. The album’s main song, “Churchburner,” has a video filmed by Christoffer Tönnäng. You can watch that clip down below.

‘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. Marko Tervonen

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.

Marko Tervonen

Tracklist:

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)

Pre-order the album here: metalblade.com/thecrown.