Crown the Empire was formed in July 2010 by Andrew Velasquez, Austin Duncan, Hayden Tree, and Brandon Hoover during their time together in High School. The band was formed when "Brandon and Austin decided to start jamming together." The band's ultimate goal was to "be heavier than most bands in their area," while "bringing huge, poppy choruses to a genre that can become pretty stale." Originally, drummer Alex Massey filled the drumming position in the band, but he was soon replaced by their current drummer, Brent Taddie in May 2011. During 2011, the members of CTE also held an extensive search for another guitarist to join their band. They soon welcomed Bennett Vogelman (Ben Suede) to the band as the new lead guitarist.
The band started recording for their debut EP, Limitless, in 2011. Limitless was released on iTunes on November 29, 2011. It featured Denis Shaforostov of former Make Me Famous renown on the title track of the album and was well received by the metalcore community.
Crown the Empire's new Album coming in 2016. Mercury. All new storyline away from previous albums. Also featuring the newly live played song "Zero", First performed at Self Help Festival.
Looking forward to this!!!
Delayed…I can’t get the release date to delete. But it’s been delayed, most likely until August.
Release date’s July 22. Album’s titled “Retrograde”.
Whoops.
Tracklist:
1. Sk-68
2. Are You Coming With Me
3. Zero
4. Aftermath
5. Hologram
6. The Fear Is Real
7. Lucky Us
8. Weight Of The World
9. Signs Of Life
10. Oxygen
11. Kaleidoscope
Damn. Glad they have a new album coming
No one has changed the artwork or title? Troll
What are you talking about? The artwork’s been changed since yesterday. It’s only the title.
I CAN’T WAIT. I love Crown The Empire. Met Andy too.
The title was Mercury before. They were choosing their theme.
So…Zero was released. It’s fucking good
sounds rad.
They might release two new songs this week:
https://twitter.com/CrownTheEmpire/status/752278510165561344
This sounds good.
This album is awesome.
Has anyone got the leak to work? It just keeps showing up as corrupt. I’m thinking it’s a fake
It’s real, and is available on all major leak sites.