This is the kind of music they play in Hell, at drag races. A quick listen would deem The Crown another At The Gates rip-off, but this disc is something different for sure. It does have that perfect crunchy Swedish production perfected by the aforementioned and oft-mentioned crew, but this is one different rip-roaring hellride indeed. The Crown have perfected the "death metal/party rock" genre, by adding hilarious B-movie-esque pseudo-Satanic lyrics (let's hope they're not for real, and if they are, well, take a whole lot of points off of my rating), resulting in one big, high-speed, shooting down the Christians, guzzling back the gasoline, muscle-car riding, apocalypse-is-a-comin' so we're-a-laughin'-all-the-way-to-Satan's-pad funfest. Layer that over some seriously speedy death metal (but something like In Flames meets The Haunted, not Cannibal Corpse meets Vader), make it sound more upbeat and fun instead of brutally down-tuned and somber, and there you have it, a CD almost in a genre of its own, sort of sharing headspace with later Carcass albums (but not as much of a downer , later Cathedral albums (lyrically only, phew!), or later Entombed (but, you know, heavy, and good). I take points off for length though: 50 minutes of this is way too much (30 minutes would do) and shitty cover art. And the whole image gets kinda annoying too. As fun as it is, enough is enough and it's time to go back to reality and leave these crazy supernova-galaxy-bursting-semi-driving death metallers in their own reality. But one would be well-advised to keep the disc close by for when you need to pay a visit to those zones.