Tag: Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape

Bootleg: Black Crown Initiate in St. Paul, Minnesota!

Pro-shot by Leo Sypniewski at the Amsterdam Bar & Hall in St. Paul Minnesota on 21st March, here’s a full set from Black Crown Initiate. The Progressive Blackened Death Metal monsters are currently on the road with Omnium Gatherum and Allegaeon with cuts from 2020’s “Violent Portraits of a Doomed Escape” making up the lionshare

Review: “Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape” by Black Crown Initiate

After a pair of critically acclaimed albums in 2014’s “The Wreckage Of Stars” and it’s follow up in 2016’s “Selves We Cannot Forgive“, Reading Pennsylvanian Progressive Death Metallers Black Crown Initiate can be forgiven for taking their time over getting to their third studio record “Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape“, which finds them with a

Bootleg: Black Crown Initiate in Minneapolis!

Century Media will be unveiling the third album from US Progressive Death Metallers Black Crown Initiate on 7th August, going by the name “Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape”. It promises much from the singles released so far and we would have seen the band in action this summer at Tech-Fest had circumstances been different. So

NEWS: “Death Comes in Reverse” for Black Crown Initiate!

The last single from “Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape”, the new album by US Progressive Death Metal masterminds Black Crown Initiate has appeared in the form of “Death Comes in Reverse”. The album will appear on 7th August via Century Media. Andy Thomas comments: “‘Death Comes in Reverse’ was written during one of the lowest points of

NEWS: Black Crown Initiate believe in “Holy Silence”?

One band we were looking forward to seeing live this summer was Black Crown Initiate who were scheduled to play Tech-Fest, as we were to attend. They have unveiled the third single from their upcoming “Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape”, due out 7th August via Century Media with pre-orders available here. The band comment: “We

NEWS: Black Crown Initiate announce “Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape”!

Reading, Pennsylvanian Progressive Death Metal quartet Black Crown Initiate have found a new label home with Century Media and announced a new album “Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape” for 7th August. From that intriguing prospect comes “Sun Of War” along with pre-order links and comment! Guitarist and founding member Andy Thomas offers of the track, “’Sun of War’ is