THE CROWN UNVEILS NEW SONG TITLE, SEXY REHEARSAL PICS

Photo by Johan Lindstrand, The Crown

A few months ago, The Crown announced the return of screamer Johan Lindstrand, making theirs the first of some awesomely exciting late 2011 reunions. Soon to follow were At The Drive-In (read here), He Is Legend (here), and Refused (here), all acts sharing few aesthetics but linked by total awesomeness, undefinability, daring, and unexhausted creative potential. So it’s cosmically just that these rad, singular bands have heeded the voices ordering them back from the light at the end of the tunnel. Bonerz for all!

Back in September, MetalSucks got up in the face of Crown guitarist/producer Marko Tervonen to talk about their new album plans and stuff, and he revealed that around six songs were written. And today a pair of those songs are mentioned by Lindstrand in his report on Thursday’s rehearsal, the band’s first since his return:

It was really awesome. We warmed up with some classics before taking on some new kick-ass material.

We played [for the first time] the new song ‘Headhunter’ as a full band, and it really felt great to hear everything such as vocals and leads for the first time. The song was already impressive as an instrumental demo track, but now all the pieces fell in place and made what easily could be a great opener of the next album. Time will tell.

To finish up the rehearsal, we messed around with another new song written by Magnus [Olsfelt, The Crown bassist], a great intense track which takes you back to the good old days. I fucked up some lyric lines on this one as well. Better next time I guess.

Now we have like 5-6 songs and I believe a masterpiece is on the way. But in [our] typical way, we do not hurry this shit up. We wanna create something special so it might take a while to get it out. Only the best is good enough.

-ADF