Crown The Empire Have Released An Unrelentingly Brutal New Track ‘Dancing With The Dead’

An absolute behemoth of a song.

Crown The Empire have never sounded more ravenous than they do right now.

The band have dropped a new track called ‘Dancing With The Dead’, and it is fucking huge. 

Crushing riffs, monolithic breakdowns and an unbelievably guttural vocal display from both Andy Leo and Hayden Tree, it’s an absolute triumph in so many glorious ways.

Andy had this to say about the track: 

“’Dancing with the Dead’ came about during the rock bottom phase of quarantine. I’d felt like my purpose had been taken, and I had fully melded into the idea of just letting myself rot. I thought that rock bottom had a definite end but it felt as if I could go as low as I’d let myself. There’s a mural of heaven we put up that covers my entire living room wall and I was thinking about the book “Paradise Lost” where Lucifer said something like “I’d rather rule in hell than serve in heaven” and knew that if I was doomed to be stuck in this loop then I may as well make the most of it. I was chasing after an idea of salvation that I could do nothing to reach so I decided to start building myself outward to make myself the king of the shit hole I had put myself in.”

And Hayden added this:

“This is the heaviest song we’ve released to date. I remember sitting down and thinking to myself that as a band, we’ve never released a song with zero singing in it. As a musician in the rock world you can sometimes feel like you have to play it safe. These days artists seem to be fearful of stepping out of their comfort zone and doing something other than their norm or what’s trending. I didn’t want to play it safe anymore. At this point I was listening to a lot of hardcore/metal bands I grew up on which shaped the riff and energy on the track. I remember showing the song to the band and instantly Brandon thought it was too heavy and didn’t feel that it could make it onto an album. I fought him on it because I believed this song could be something special. He finally came around and helped me and Andy write all the lyrics. Once we finished the track, it turned into one of our band’s favorite and craziest songs we’ve ever released.”

It comes alongside an incredible cinematic video as well, which you can check out below:

It follows on from the stunning ‘In Another Life’ featuring Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante:

Link to the source article – https://www.rocksound.tv/news/read/crown-the-empire-have-released-an-unrelentingly-brutal-new-track-dancing-wi

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