Metal Blade Records

With 2018's Cobra Speed Venom, the band reached the same lofty heights as their 2002 landmark release, Crowned In Terror, but they were primed and ready to write its successor. "It surely set the bar up high for a follow up," Olsfelt explains.<br/>Having celebrated their thirtieth anniversary in 2020 [their first eight years spent as Crown Of Thorns], The Crown have proven themselves one of the most enduring forces in death metal. They further up the ante with Royal Destroyer, a record that sets a new standard for the genre.<br/>Together with legendary producer Fredrik Nordström, the band tracked the resulting 10 songs at Gothenburg's Studio Fredman. "We push ourselves to the limit, really trying to make everything as good as it can get, trying to make every song as impactful as possible," Olsfelt states. While he believes that people need to hear the album themselves to be able to accurately describe it, Olsfelt also asserts that The Crown have achieved something that makes for a "continuous whole" - while being diverse. "We have some of the most intense stuff ever!"<br/><br/>HIGH QUALITY

Black Dahlia Murder: Verminous 2020 [Digipack / CD]

There are few truly unique musical artists, but the music made by MBR arguably exists in a category of its own.<br/>"The main elements include chiptune, demoscene & video game music, thrash/death metal and some black metal as well as classical and symphonic patterns and progressive structures," explains sole progenitor and mastermind MBR. "But everything is programmed and done with synthesizers." The result, influenced as much by classical baroque music, bay area thrash metal, and Commodore 64 games, is a frenzied mashup of what logic suggests should be disparate sounds, but in the hands of MBR make sense, taking the listener in unexpected and always thrilling directions, smashing through genre walls.<br/>FLOPPY DISK OVERDRIVE sees MBR sound evolve again, embracing all of the elements fans have come to expect from the project, but taking a step forward. MBR comments: "This album has got some new Elements such as the synthesized clean guitars sounds which adds that early thrash metal feel - as well as some baroque atmosphere - but the album still features my trademark sound mixing chiptune, classical and metal music." Remaining prolific - and 100% synthetic.

Amon Amarth: Versus the world 2002 (Rem) [CD]

Riot: Thundersteel 1988 (30th anniversary/Rem) [Digipack / CD + DVD]

Deluxe Edition Box Set incl. Digipak, Bonus DVD (incl. production videos for the entire album), Pendant, Metal Pin and 2 coasters.

Igorrr: Spirituality and distortion 2020 [Digipack / CD]