CRESCENT. FUCKING. SHIELD.
Thursday, February 19th, 2009 at 11:00am by Axl Rosenberg
Are you guys hip to Crescent Shield? The band started as a side project for Onward vocalist Michael Grant and Destiny’s End guitarist (and frequent MetalSucks commenter!) Dan DeLucie, but eventually became their full-time gig; the band’s 2006 album, the aptly titled The Last of My Kind, was released to rave reviews, and rightfully so. This band should be opening for Iron Maiden; it’s difficult for me to imagine any Maiden fan (or fan of other bands like Maiden) not digging the everlovin’ shit outta Crescent Shield. The band even made the complete album avail for free download (with voiceovers – I mean, they gotta make a living somehow) on their website, and if you haven’t heard it, now’s the time to go download it.
The band has a new album, The Stars of Never Seen, coming out on May 8 in Germany and Europe, May 11 in the UK and June 2 in the USA and Canada (artwork above). Like I said, as a Maiden fan, I can’t help but eat this shit up; hopefully the new album will bring some of the same metallic goodness as The Last of My Kind.
After the jump, check out The Last of My Kind’s opening track, “Above Mere Mortals.” There’s a crappy-quality bootleg of the band performing a new song floating around the net, but I don’t think it tells us very much about how the new album might sound; hopefully we’ll get something more official soon.
-AR
I’ve been a Maiden fan since before most of the commentors on this blog were born and the only similarities I hear between this band and any incarnation of Iron Maiden are that they have a singer, a guitarist or two, a bassist and a drummer. And they make music. Blaze Bailey era Maiden is better than this “warrior” metal, and Blaze Bailey era Maiden is an abomination on the St. Anger scale of abominations.
Thanks for the post Axl!
that cover art reminds me of coheed’s latest.
definitely feeling the maiden. sounds good
Holy Shit, this is fucking shit at HELL
I don’t hear the Maiden in this either. It does remind me of the local bands that would play at L’Amours circa 1988 that I loved because back then I bought into anything remotely metal. Then again, I was 13.
its not the best song but its pretty cool