Italy’s epic, anthemic Dark Metal ensemble CROWN OF AUTUMN have just launched their second track from band’s upcoming album “Byzantine Horizons”. It is “Lorica” and shows the heaviest and most extreme side of the new release.
Enjoy it here:
"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
The album is slated for release on April 5th, 2019 via My Kingdom Music and is available at: http://smarturl.it/COABYZ-CD
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