BLACK CROWN INITIATE Announce New Album And Debut First Single

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BLACK CROWN INITIATE DEBUT NEW SONG  » FOR RED CLOUD  »

Album SELVES WE CANNOT FORGIVE Due July 22, 2016

Pennsylvania purveyors of metal BLACK CROWN INITIATE have unveiled a brand new track titled « For Red Cloud« . It is the first bit of new music we’ve heard from the band since the release of their previous LP in 2014. Guitarist Andy Thomas calls the song « a statement of the psychological enslavement of the modern world, and a tribute to those who resisted being enslaved. We will never become the storm of change that our world needs. Our children will never know what true freedom feels like, and we surely don’t, either. »
The single is also available as download stream. Get it here: https://BlackCrownInitiate.lnk.to/ForRedCloudPR
BLACK CROWN INITIATE will release their new album Selves We Cannot Forgive on July 22, 2016 via Long Branch Records / SPV in Europe. The tracklist and visually mindbending cover art created by Travis Smith (Opeth, Devin Townsend, Avenged Sevenfold) can be seen below. « We’ve been through a great deal as a band since our last release, » says Thomas. « We’ve grown a great deal as writers, players, and people and put everything we had into this one. »

Recorded and mixed by Carson Slovak & Grant McFarland (August Burns Red, Texas In July, From Ashes To New) at Atrium Audio Recording Studio’s in Lancaster PA, Selves We Cannot Forgive will be the follow up to the buzzworthy debut LP The Wreckage of Stars released at the end of 2014. The Wreckage of Stars also propelled the band into the international touring act it is today. BCI quickly found themselves on the road with the likes of Behemoth, Deicide, Napalm Death and Voivod.

Selves We Can Not Forgive is a lean and focused collection that jettisons the extraneous fat found too often within ambitious metal bands, striking a balance between fearless adventurousness and methodical might. It follows The Wreckage of Stars, which together with their self-financed Song of the Crippled Bull EP introduced Black Crown Initiate’s unapologetic exploration of everything from Friedrich Nietzsche and Greek Sophist Gorgias to Hinduism, Buddhism, and indigenous mysticism, with a pragmatic skepticism.

Thomas continues on their new release, « we feel it is a more than fitting next chapter for the band; one that we are truly proud and excited to enter. We hope you all enjoy it too. See you on the road! »

Black Crown Initiate have worked their way into the heavy music community’s collective consciousness with steady determination. Likeminded supporters who made the thrilling discovery of songs like « A Great Mistake, » « The Fractured One, » and « Withering Waves » are rewarded in kind by the continued evolution on Selves We Can Not Forgive. As Black Crown Initiate continuously proves, heavy metal and heavy intelligence don’t have to be mutually exclusive. These men are conjuring an awe inspiring body of work that is as unstoppable as it was inevitable, like existence itself. This is high-minded art delivered with a guttural growl.

Tracklisting SELVES WE CANNOT FORGIVE
1. For Red Cloud
2. Sorrowpsalm
3. Again
4. Belie The Machine
5. Selves We Cannot Forgive
6. Transmit To Disconnect
7. Matriarch
8. Vicious Lives

BLACK CROWN INITIATE is
James Dorton – Vocals
Andy Thomas – Guitar and Vocals
Nick Shaw – Bass
Jesse Beahler – Drums

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