Crash of the Crown

by Styx

Crash of the Crown cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 18 June 2021
  • Label: Alpha Dog 2T
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 3.42/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Will Evankovich, Tommy Shaw, Lawrence Gowan, James Young, Ricky Phillips, Chuck Panozzo

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The seventeenth studio album from the classic rock mainstays heavily revives the progressive rock complexity of their 1970s golden era. Characterized by intricate synthesizer passages, triumphant vocal harmonies, and hopeful lyricism, the record attempts to address modern societal division through a lens of vintage symphonic rock.

Genres

Descriptors: Arena Rock, melodic, progressive, conscious

Tracklist

  1. The Fight Of Our Lives
  2. A Monster
  3. Reveries
  4. Hold Back The Darkness
  5. Save Us From Ourselves
  6. Crash Of The Crown
  7. Our Wonderful Lives
  8. Common Ground
  9. Sound The Alarm
  10. Long Live The King
  11. Lost at Sea
  12. Coming Out The Other Side
  13. To Those
  14. Another Farewell
  15. Stream

Credits

  • Tommy Shaw - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, banjo, vocals, music by, lyrics by
  • Chuck Panozzo - bass guitar
  • Ricky Phillips - bass guitar, music by
  • Todd Sucherman - drums, percussion
  • James Young - electric guitar, vocals
  • Joe Nino-Hernes - lacquer cut by
  • Lawrence Gowan - piano, electric organ [b3], synthesizer, mellotron, vocals, music by, lyrics by
  • Steve Patrick - piccolo trumpet [additional]

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