Skipping This New Black Crown Initiate Song Would Be A “Great Mistake”
When Reading, PA’s Black Crown Initiate released Song of the Crippled Bull last year, they were riding high on the hype train. When I first heard it I just couldn’t get into it. Something about it just didn’t click with me for some reason. A few months later, the intro to “The Stench of the Iron Age” was constantly getting stuck in my head and I decided to throw on the EP. What the heck was wrong with me when it came out?? This band shreds.
Anyway, they have a new album called The Wreckage of Stars coming September 30 on eOne Music, and they’ve just put up the opening track, “The Great Mistake”, on SoundCloud. Check it out below:
Pretty great right? I don’t know what it is, but phrygian dominant melodies = never not awesome. Randall Thor said “it’s like if all the wanky tech death noodly woodly bands stopped and actually wrote a song“.
The Wreckage of Stars is out September 30 on eOne Music, and the band will appear with The Faceless, Rings of Saturn, Archspire, Fallujah and Fatality on the Summer Slaughter Canada Club Tour. Dates are as follows:
8/14/2014 Quebec City, QC Dagobert
8/15/2014 Montreal, QC Les Foufounes Electriques
8/16/2014 Toronto, ON Mod Club
8/17/2014 Jonquiere, QC Salle Nikitoutagan
8/18/2014 Trois-Rivieres, QC Rock Cafe
8/19/2014 Sherbrooke, QC Le Magog
8/20/2014 Ottawa, ON Babylon Nightclub
8/23/2014 Edmonton, AB Pawn Shop
8/24/2014 Kelowna, BC Sapphire Nightclub
8/25/2014 Vancouver, BC Rickshaw Theater
8/26/2014 Seattle, WA Studio Seven
8/27/2014 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theater
8/28/2014 Santa Cruz, CA The Catalyst
Preorder here. Buy this track here.
