THE CROWN
Royal Destroyer
All-out death metal war from Sweden’s hardest
METAL BLADE
The Crown demonstrate their Jesus Christ pose, death metal-style
AFTER DECADES OF increasingly extreme takes on the metal formula, it can be hard to find bands that will truly pin you to the wall with sheer ferocity. The Crown, of course, have always been that way. Although ostensibly a straightforward death metal band, the Swedes have always been a versatile bunch, writing songs that brandish hooks like bloodied machetes while steamrollering the shit out of everything in their path. With a production that packs such an eye-watering punch that you may fear for your own skull’s integrity, Royal Destroyer is frequently laugh-out-loud brutal and gloriously, unapologetically metal-as-fuck from bruising start to cataclysmic finish.