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title: "Black Crown Initiate"
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date: 2022-04-02
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> This post is day 9 of me taking part in the
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> [#100DaysToOffload](https://100daystooffload.com/) challenge.
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I love metal, I've been listening to metal since I was 13. It was the first
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music genre that I actually liked: until I discovered metal I actually thought I
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didn't like music at all, because nothing I heard on the radio or heard my
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friends listening to were interesting to me. My taste in music has expanded and
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changed over the years to include different types of music and genres, but metal
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remains the one I love the most.
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Demonstrating my metal-worthiness aside, I've always listened to European metal
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bands. I had this weird elitist thought that "good" metal could only come from
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Europe, with exceptions for some non-European bands, and that American metal was
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just always bad. This is obviously false, but I just had never came across
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anything American that I had liked. That's until recently.
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I recently came across [Black Crown Initiate](https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Black_Crown_Initiate/3540386765),
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a progressive death metal band from Pennsylvania. And I have to tell you that they are amazing.
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Their first release "Song of the Crippled Bull" is absolutely amazing. The music
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is just the right amount of metal and progressive, and lyrics are amazing. The
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clean vocals get the themes of the song across, while the growls give a lot of
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power to the songs. My favorite songs from this release are "Stench of the Iron
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Age" and the title track "Song of the Crippled Bull". Other hightlights from the
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band I've listened to so far include "A Great Mistake", "Death Comes in
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Reverse", "Vicious Lives".
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I'm still making my way through their songs, but I'm glad to have discovered
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something from America that I absolutely love. I'm now trying to find more
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non-European bands that I enjoy.
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