I also got to use some gear I never thought I'd have the chance to play on a STYX record like Tommy's Hammond B3 organ, my Minimoog, and my Mellotron."Įfforts to record "Crash Of The Crown" began in earnest at Shaw's home studio in Nashville during the fall of 2019, with Gowan - STYX's criminally minded showman extraordinaire and keyboardist/vocalist since 1999 - in the room together with Shaw and the album's producer, Will Evankovich, as he conjured up the album's first song to be recorded, with cosmetic flourishes that reign over the insistent, yearning call for togetherness, "Common Ground". The beauty of it is that it's the culmination of all our talents crammed together into one song, 'Abbey Road'-style. "I'm always looking for the one different thing we can do and still have it be STYX," the ever-ebullient Gowan notes, "and that's the song I'm most proud of. Actually, it's the first cut in the band's storied canon to feature three lead vocalists, seeing how it has Young unleashed at the starting gate, Shaw heading up the heroic stacked-vocal middle section, and Gowan leading the vocal charge for the final verse. The "Crash Of The Crown" song breaks some brave new world ground for STYX. The legendary rockers - James "JY" Young (lead vocals, guitars), Tommy Shaw (lead vocals, guitars), Chuck Panozzo (bass, vocals), Todd Sucherman (drums, percussion), Lawrence Gowan (lead vocals, keyboards) and Ricky Phillips (bass, guitar, vocals - wrote "Crash Of The Crown" pre-pandemic and recorded it during the trying times of the coronavirus crisis. The LP's second single, "Reveries", can be streamed below.
STYX will release its new studio album, "Crash Of The Crown", on June 18 via the band's label, Alpha Dog 2T/ UMe.
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