O.D. ON THE CROWN’S BRAND NEW SONG

The Crown’s ex-final record Possessed 13 is insanely awesome/awesomely insane for like 13,000 reasons (see what I did there?), but there’s at least one reason that I never hear discussed: how a couple of its songs so affectionately pay tribute to early thrash metal. Exhibit A is “Kill ‘Em All” (here), the maniacal closer to P13‘s second act that sounds like an outtake from, yeah, obviously, Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All. But the song’s appeal goes beyond its historical significance, cuz it’s way catchy and just rips (I said here!). Actually, the percentage of my waking hours that the song is screaming through my head is a number that I’ll admit only to my attorneys; that shit is incriminating.  

And The Crown get additional super-props for P13‘s thrashiness in light of the thrash genre’s renaissance a few years later. So songs like “Kill ‘Em All” and “Natashead Overdrive” not only place The Crown in discussions beside the almighty Metallica, but they also quietly predate the lucrative ReThrash explosion. I fucking love this band.

Here in 2010, The Crown is reformed with a new singer, a serious record company, and a new record, Doomsday King (above) — and its first new song for our ears, “Blood O.D.” over at their MySpace page.

-ADF