The Crown are a group of guys who seem to find a little niche in playing brutal but not too grinding or throttling death metal. If "Hell Awaits" became "Dead, Hot And Ready", if Nick Barker joined Venom, or if Ross The Boss and Eric Adams started drinking with Peter Tagtren, this just might the barrage of bullets, assault on your ears, record of mayhem that would get you kicking back to the heydays of speed/thrash metal again. Killing power through intelligent craft, The Crown is one of those hidden little nuggets of gold that one has to scour the ranks of metal's hidden catalogue to find.