Just another step towards April 5th, when the new CROWN OF AUTUMN album titled "Byzantine Horizons" will be available in worldwide physical and digital distribution via My Kingdom Music.
Here is a teaser:
With which we anticipate not only the album release, but also the great first video of the band for the song "Cyclopean" that will be published next week on March 6th.
"Byzantine Horizons" is the 3rd chapter of their twenty-year career and shows once again how original and innovative CROWN OF AUTUMN are, adding to the typical medieval Epic Dark Metal sounds, new elements closer to Ethnic Folk Music and Dark Wave.
Here is the complete tracklist with the titles of the 11 jewels present in “Byzantine Horizons”:
1. A Mosaic Within
2. Dhul-Qarnayn
3. Scepter And Soil
4. Cyclopean
5. Lo Sposo Dell’Orizzonte
6. Everything Evokes
7. Walls Of Stone, Tapestries Of Light
8. Whores For Eleusis
9. Lorica
10. Roman Diary
11. Our Withering Will
“Byzantine Horizons” is available to pre-order from the following: http://smarturl.it/COABYZ-CD
Welcome to a new epic dark ride!
ONLINE
LINEUP
Emanuele Rastelli: Guitars, bass, keyboards and screamy vocals.
Gianluigi Girardi: Melodic vocals
Mattia Stancioiu: Drums
Guest female vocals by Milena Saracino
BIOGRAPHY
Crown of Autumn came to light in October 1996 by the will of the founding member Emanuele Rastelli (guitars, bass and keyboards) to create a dark and epic metal project.
Two other members joined him: Diego Balconi on melodic vocals and Marco Ibba on screamy vocals. In the same year the band released their four songs demo tape “Ruins”, with the help of a session drummer. This work was very appreciated by both magazines and fans, having sold very well in the underground market. “Ruins” brought a couple of contract proposals to Crown of Autumn but Emanuele Rastelli and the new drummer Mattia Stancioiu decided to found their own record label in order to have total control on the band’s productions.
The first full length album “The treasures arcane” was released in 1997 by the new born label Elnor Productions. This record was even more epic and atmospheric than the previous recording. The sound evolved towards a mixture of medieval touches and epic metal rides, acoustic breaks and black metal assaults. The concept lyrics, written in old English, contributed to enshroud the album with an aura of antiquity and mystery.
“The treasures arcane” really was a little triumph; it got amazing reviews worldwide and the fans still acclaim it as an underground cult. After that record the band fell in a long, long slumber and its members started exploring different ways of musical expression.
Now, after 13 years, Emanuele and Mattia are back with the awaited follower of “The treasures arcane”. The release’s title is “Splendours from the dark” and it shows a renewed line up which gives the band some new sound elements, always following the path that Crown of Autumn undertook more than a decade ago.
And the quest goes on…
DISCOGRAPHY
The Treasures Arcane - 1997
Splendours from the Dark - 2011
Byzantine Horizons - 2019