[photo by Devilnax]
Italian progressive metal/rock outfit KINGCROW announces the band’s newest album, The Persistence, now confirmed for worldwide release on September 7th via Sensory Records. The album is to be released as the band hits the road across Europe supporting Pain Of Salvation.
Describing KINGCROW today is quite a difficult task, but one could state that the influence of different kinds of music, from progressive rock , ambient music, alternative rock, and metal are all present in the band’s music With each release, KINGCROW has taken a step further away from their original roots and is regarded today as one of the most exciting bands that Italy has to offer.
KINGCROW‘s upcoming third album for Sensory Records, The Persistence closes a three-year gap since the band’s acclaimed Eidos album. The band recorded the album at Sound Under Pressure, produced once again by the band’s Diego and Thundra Cafolla and mixed by Giampiero Ulacco. The photography and design of Devilnax completes the design, as with its predecessor.
The Persistence will be released September 7th via Sensory Records. Stand by for the album’s cover art, track lising, audio samples, preorders, and more to be issued shortly.
The release of The Persistence is tied in conjunction to KINGCROW‘s impending support slot for Pain Of Salvation, which will run from August 31st through September 20th.
KINGCROW w/ Pain of Salvation:
8/31/2018 Columbia-Theater – Berlin, DE
9/01/2018 Progresja – Warsaw, PL
9/02/2018 Studio – Krakow, PL
9/04/2018 MMC – Bratislava, SK
9/05/2018 A38 – Budapest, HU
9/07/2018 Colos-Saal – Aschaffenburg, DE
9/09/2018 Markthalle – Hamburg, DE
9/10/2018 Zeche – Bochum, DE
9/12/2018 Academy Club – Manchester, UK
9/13/2018 Islington Assembly Hall – London, UK
9/14/2018 Muziekgieterij – Maastricht, NL
9/15/2018 Melkweg – Amsterdam, NL
9/17/2018 Z-7 – Pratteln, CH
9/18/2018 L’Empreinte – Savigny-le-Temple, FR
9/19/2018 Ninkasi Kao – Lyon, FR
9/20/2018 La Laiterie – Strasbourg, FR
The first incarnation of KINGCROW was originally founded in Rome, Italy, by Diego Cafolla (guitars) and Manuel Thundra Cafolla (drums) under the name Earth Shaker. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s poem The Raven, and driven by a will of change, the band’s name was soon altered into KINGCROW and a couple of self-produced demos/albums where recorded under the new moniker; Something Unknown (2001), Insider (2004), and Timetropia (2006). Diego Cafolla described these early self-produced albums as “public experiments” and consider them as “extended demos” versus official lbums. In 2007 and 2008, together with new bassist Angelo Orlando and the new keyboard player Cristian Della Polla, and guitar player Ivan Nastasi, the band performed several live shows at the biggest Italian hard rock-heavy metal music festivals including the famous Gods Of Metal alongside Iron Maiden and Judas Priest.
In February 2009, during the recording sessions for the new album, Francesco D’Errico (bass) joined the band. Also Mauro decided to leave the band due to personal reasons, and was substituted by Diego Marchesi, a singer with outstanding vocal skills. In the same year the band signed a contract with the Intromental Management booking agency.
In the early months of 2010 the band finished recording their new album Phlegethon which was released in June of the same year through the Scarlet Records label. Phlegethon was a new exciting concept, and, according to the band, the new disc found them, “exploring paths of progressive rock and metal we’ve never ventured.” It was considered on an international level as a relevant masterpiece and was classed as one of the elite albums of the year. It has been near the top of the charts in some international prog-rock websites. Phlegethon‘s promotion lasted for about two years and a half. In early 2011, several shows were performed in Italy, followed by a European tour in October as a supporting band of California-based Redemption, lead by Ray Alder of Fates Warning. In the summer of 2012, KINGCROW took part in another European tour as a supporting band of Jon Oliva’s Pain with the ex-Savatage artist. In 2011 they performed at ProgPower Europe in Baarlo, Netherlands, and in 2012 at the most famous ProgPower USA in Atlanta, Georgia.
During the same year, KINGCROW recorded the new album In Crescendo which was released in February 2013 by American label Sensory Records. A new conceptual album, In Crescendo is an album in which sweet and gloomy atmospheres are perfectly combined with a solid and heavy sound, heavier than the previous records. The band toured alongside Pain Of Salvation in North America in April and May 2013.
In 2015, KINGCROW released the follow-up album, Eidos, and toured Europe as headliners. Immediately following the tour, Francesco D’Errico decided to leave the band to concentrate on his private life. Meanwhile, the band signed a management deal with GlassVille Music, house of very well know progressive acts like Pain Of Salvation and Riverside among others, and have since set to work to record what is their newest album, The Persistence.
Watch for more details on KINGCROW and The Persistence in the months ahead.
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