Hailing from France, Crown are three men and a machine who tune their neutron guitars to the Richter scale, and deliver the sound of a molten universe collapsing. Touching on early Isis, Godflesh, [band]Floor[/band9 and even Killing Joke, Crown explore the depths of slow tempos on their debut album, The One, and their split EP with St Valley through sheer exuberant heaviness.

The trio's depth-charging guitars and buried melodic tendencies snake around hissing electronics, a tribal/military percussive thwack, and the splashing cymbals of a minimal-yet-completely-effective drum-machine. Their sound is further emboldened by a massive bestial roar, heavy and oppressive, leading to an abyss of nothingness. Welcome to the dark, spiraling, and obscure experiments of Crown.

Since January 2014, Frederyk Rotter from Zatokrev joined forces for a three piece crushing live act.

The End Of All Things is clearly a departure from that sound in almost every imaginable way. Dark and moody; bleak and sublime; airy and crushing; mesmerizing and engrossing; bold yet unerring; strident, groovy and suffocating, all at the same time. An album oozing with tasteful, fragile hooklines flirting with the abyss they are hovering above, encapsulated within an ingenious major production. The End Of All Things is a seminal album, which could well turn into a new Shape Of Heavy Music To Come.

Source: Official website, Pelagic Records