Crowned In Terror - Crown

The Crown's third album starts out as a promising fusion of extreme death metal and melodic elements with the excellent title track before slipping into a predictable and lifeless pattern thereafter. I expected more from what is, in some ways, an off-shoot of the legendary melodic death metal band At the Gates, featuring the vocal talents of hatemonger extraordinaire Tomas Lindberg, while the band's links with the Haunted (another sort-of At the Gates spin-off) added further intrigue, even though that band has never impressed me too much. Unfortunately, the result isn't that much different from the rest of the Swedish death metal scene, merely faster and ...