Black Laden Crown
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| Studio album by Danzig | ||||
| Released | May 26, 2017 | |||
| Recorded | 2014–2017 | |||
| Genre | Heavy metal, hard rock | |||
| Length | 45:51 | |||
| Label | Evilive, Nuclear Blast | |||
| Producer | Glenn Danzig | |||
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| Loudwire | favorable |
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Black Laden Crown is the eleventh studio album, and the tenth of all-new original material, by the American heavy metal band Danzig, released on May 26, 2017.
Black Laden Crown is the band's first album of original material since Deth Red Sabaoth (2010), marking the longest gap between two studio albums in their career, as well as their first release with drummer Joey Castillo since I Luciferi (2002). The album took three years to complete, with the recording sessions beginning in February 2014.Black Laden Crown was recorded with five different drummers (Castillo, Johnny Kelly, Karl Rockfist, Dirk Verbeuren and Glenn Danzig himself), while the bass parts were handled by both Tommy Victor and Danzig.
The track "Devil on Hwy 9" premiered on Full Metal Jackie's radio show "Whiplash" on April 2, 2017.
The album's second single, "Last Ride", was made available on iTunes on May 12, 2017. A music video is set to be released to accompany it. The song was originally set to appear on a soundtrack for The Walking Dead TV series, but did not come to fruition: "It's on this album and it's called 'Last Ride'. I think the soundtrack album was scrapped. There were supposed to be a lot of other bands on it – I think Soundgarden was one of them – but it never came out. I had told people that if the soundtrack doesn't come out before my new album is being done, I'm putting it on my new record. It's not so much about the show itself, but more about the theme anyway. But who knows, if I do a video-clip for it, it could even have zombies."
AFM Records:
Nuclear Blast USA:
Canadian exclusive:
Bullmoose Indie Exclusive:
iTunes:
All songs written by Glenn Danzig.
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