Crown The Empire Drop Video For Their Heaviest Track To Date; "Dancing With The Dead"

CROWN THE EMPIRE

Drop Cinematic Video For Heaviest Track Of Their Career

"Dancing With The Dead"

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US Tour With Atreyu Kicks Off November 9th

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Genre-bending, modern metallers, Crown The Empire, have released their heaviest track to date, today. The song, titled "Dancing With The Dead", is the band's first that features no clean vocals and instead features a furious, guttural exchange between vocalist Andy Leo and bassist/vocalist Hayden Tree. Accompanying the new track is a darkly cinematic music video, featuring a real life chess board where protagonist (Andy), has to physically overpower the seven deadly sins, to overthrow the clutches of the evil King (Hayden). Stream "Dancing With The Dead" here and watch the official music video here or by clicking the image below.

Speaking on their brutal new track, Andy Leo shares

"Dancing with the Dead” came about during the rock bottom phase of quarantine. I’d felt like my purpose had been taken, and I had fully melded into the idea of just letting myself rot. I thought that rock bottom had a definite end but it felt as if I could go as low as I’d let myself. There’s a mural of heaven we put up that covers my entire living room wall and I was thinking about the book “Paradise Lost” where Lucifer said something like “I’d rather rule in hell than serve in heaven” and knew that if I was doomed to be stuck in this loop then I may as well make the most of it. I was chasing after an idea of salvation that I could do nothing to reach so I decided to start building myself outward to make myself the king of the shit hole I had put myself in.”

Hayden Tree adds

"This is the heaviest song we’ve released to date. I remember sitting down and thinking to myself that as a band, we've never released a song with zero singing in it. As a musician in the rock world you can sometimes feel like you have to play it safe. These days artists seem to be fearful of stepping out of their comfort zone and doing something other than their norm or what’s trending. I didn’t want to play it safe anymore. At this point I was listening to a lot of hardcore/metal bands I grew up on which shaped the riff and energy on the track. I remember showing the song to the band and instantly Brandon thought it was too heavy and didn’t feel that it could make it onto an album. I fought him on it because I believed this song could be something special. He finally came around and helped me and Andy write all the lyrics. Once we finished the track, it turned into one of our band’s favorite and craziest songs we’ve ever released."

"Dancing With The Dead" follows previously released, stand-alone single "In Another Life" feat Courtney La Plante of Spiritbox. the track, which dropped in August of this year has clocked up 2.1 million worldwide streams and 732,000 YouTubeviews.

Crown The Empire will be hitting the road as Special Guests for Atreyu on their "Baptize Tour". Kicking off in Dallas, Texas on November 9th, the tour will continue through 26 further US cities, culminating in Santa Ana, California on December 16th. The band will also be playing a one-off Los Angeles show - "The Battle of Los Angeles" with Volumes and Slay Squad on December 19th at 1720. All tickets and VIP packages available here.

Nov. 09 — Dallas, Texas @ Gas Monkey Bar And Grill

Nov. 10 — Houston, Texas @ The Warehouse

Nov. 11 — New Orleans, La. @ Republic NOLA

Nov. 13 — Daytona, Fla. @ Welcome to Rockville

Nov. 15 — Atlanta, Ga. @ The Masquerade

Nov. 16 — Charlotte, N.C. @ The Underground

Nov. 17 — Baltimore, Md. @ Rams Head Live

Nov. 19 — Pittsburgh, Pa. @ The Roxian

Nov. 20 — Sayreville, N.J. @ Starland Ballroom

Nov. 21 — New York, N.Y. @ Webster Hall

Nov. 22 — Albany, N.Y. @ Empire Live

Nov. 23 — Hartford, Ct. @ The Webster

Nov. 24 — Worcester, Mass. @ The Palladium

Nov. 26 — Detroit, Mich. @ The Majestic

Nov. 27 — Columbus, Ohio @ Newport Music Hall

Nov. 30 — Cleveland, Ohio @ The Agora

Dec. 01 — Grand Rapids, Mich. @ The Intersection

Dec. 02 — Joliet, Ill. @ The Forge

Dec. 03 — Belvidere, Ill. @ The Apollo Theater AC

Dec. 04 — Minneapolis, Minn. @ Skyway Theatre

Dec. 06 — Kansas City, Mo. @ The Truman

Dec. 07 — Denver, Colo. @ The Summit

Dec. 09 — Salt Lake City, Utah @ The Depot

Dec. 10 — Boise, Idaho @ Knitting Factory

Dec. 11 — Portland, Ore. @ Roseland

Dec. 12 — Seattle, Wash. @ The Crocadile

Dec. 14 — Santa Cruz, Calif. @ The Catalyst

Dec. 15 — San Diego, Calif. @ House of Blues

Dec. 16 — Santa Ana, Calif. @ The Observatory

ABOUT CROWN THE EMPIRE

Crown the Empire have steadily established themselves over the past decade as a force of nature in the rock world. They have shared stages with A Day To Remember, Asking Alexandria, Black Veil Brides, Falling in Reverse, Underoath, and more, all the while earning press praise from Alternative Press, Billboard, Kerrang!, Nylon, Rock Sound, and more. Their 2019-released hit "BLURRY (out of place)" ascended to No. 1 on SiriusXM's Octane and landed on the Big Uns of 2019 list. Crown the Empirehave also tallied over 607.5 million streams and 105 million YouTube views.

Crown The Empire

Andy Leo - Vocals

Brandon Hoover - Guitar

Hayden Tree - Bass & Vocals

Brent Taddie - Drums

Find Crown The Empire Online

www.crowntheempire.net

POWERWOLF Releases New Single + Cinematic Music Video “Dancing With The Dead”

Upcoming Album, Call Of The Wild, to be Released on July 16, 2021

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The return of the wolves – wilder than ever!

2021 is once again completely under the spell of the wolves: With the announcement of their new studio full-length Call Of The Wild, the high priests of heavy metal - POWERWOLF - have not only stirred up the international scene, but their first single, "Beast of Gévaudan", has also cemented their incomparable success.

The second single from the upcoming album is entitled "Dancing With The Dead", and once again underlines POWERWOLF's indispensable skill for pure, bloody heavy metal and hooks that will stay in your head forever. The hit-filled four-minute track just screams for big stages and will not only captivate loyal followers but also new fans immediately.

Featuring Attila's gripping vocals and irresistible riffs, the accompanying cinematic music video takes its recipient back to the past and once again also showcases POWERWOLF's visual strength! The video comes as a cinematic short film and stages a wild dance with the dead.

Watch the new video for “Dancing With The Dead”

Once again created in cooperation with the honorable producer duo of Jens Bogren and Joost van den Broek, the masterpiece will open a new chapter in the band's history on July 16, 2021. The eighth studio album will serve both old and newly recruited POWERWOLF devotees with well-known classic trademarks, and equally surprise and delight them at every stage of this wild 11-track ride!

Matthew Greywolf on Call Of The Wild:

"With Call Of The Wild, we are opening a new, exciting chapter in the history of POWERWOLF. The album sounds unmistakably like POWERWOLF and is so much more at the same time: Besides new territory like the Celtic instrumentation in "Blood for Blood (Faoladh)" or the ballad like "Alive or Undead" we have raised all our trademarks to a new level. Until now, we never sounded so powerful and wild - in the truest sense of the word. We can't wait to finally share this beast of an album with you all!"

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First enthusiastic press quotes on Call Of The Wild:

“The packs mightiest howl so far!”

- Sweden Rock –

“CALL OF THE WILD is not only strong as usual and offers everything you love the band for, but also impresses with various strong surprises in terms of sound, energy and lyrical concept”

- Metal Hammer Germany –

“Call Of The Wild puts a diamond-studded crown on the pack’s output to date!”

- Rock It! -

“A really strong album, with which POWERWOLF - as assuredly as you’d hear ‘Amen’ said in church - will place themselves at the top of the charts again in July.”

- Rock Hard Germany -

“Any way you slice it - the music of Powerwolf is inexplicably catchy”

- Aardschok -

The first music video from the new album for "Beast Of Gévaudan" has already gained more than 1.3 million views on YouTube. Watch the outstanding video again HERE:

Call Of The Wild, the follow-up to their 2018 #1-charting studio album Sacrament Of Sin, manifests the band's inimitable success story and proves once again that they sit unchallenged on the throne of the genre.

Various formats (2-CD Mediabook, 3-LP Vinyl Box, 3-CD Earbook, digital) of the new album include the bonus album Missa Cantorem - a cross-section of the Wolves' success story with newly recorded vocals by friends and companions of the band.

ABOUT POWERWOLF:

The story of POWERWOLF, beginning in 2004, reads like a true fairytale, but is the result of the most hard-working and entertaining live band on the heavy metal planet. POWERWOLF has not only received plenty of Gold and Platinum awards to date, but numerous releases have entered the official German album charts at the top position #1. With Blessed & Possessed (2015), POWERWOLF achieved Gold status (in the Czech Republic) for the first time, while its predecessor, Preachers Of The Night (2013), hit the official German album charts at #1, and the incredible DVD, The Metal Mass (2016), came in at #1 of the German DVD-Charts. POWERWOLF's holy mass in the name of heavy metal is unstoppable – their latest magnum opus, The Sacrament of Sin (2018), again entered the album charts at #1. The accompanying, almost completely sold out Wolfsnächte headline tour, in which POWERWOLF headlined large venues with their phenomenal stage performances, became a single major triumph – as well as the numerous summer festival shows in which crowds were thrilled and completely captivated by the ‘wolf and their unique, (un)holy metal mass. With the new studio album, Call Of The Wild, and the Wolfsnächte 2021 tour charging through the largest halls in Europe, 2021 will again be a year completely under the sign of the wolf pack!

POWERWOLF are:

Attila Dorn – vocals

Falk Maria Schlegel – organ

Charles Greywolf – guitar

Matthew Greywolf – guitar

Roel van Helden – drums