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artist: Ironflame
title: Lightning Strikes the Crown
year: 2017
genre: Heavy Metal
type: Album
label: Divebomb Records
language: English
rel. date: 2017-05-22
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo
runtime: 00:50:11
size: 115.0 MiB / 10 tracks
rip date: 2026-08-14
source url: https://open.qobuz.com/album/oz1i1bl1oruaa
tracklist:
01. Firestorm 4:44
02. Marching on 5:11
03. The Gorgon 4:41
04. Heavy Metal Warriors 5:06
05. Eternal Night 4:16
06. Fallen Glory 5:51
07. What We've Sown 4:23
08. Shadow Queen 4:56
09. Kingdom Come 4:45
10. Fighting Onward 6:18
release notes:
IRONFLAME is a traditional heavy/power metal entity born of
multi-instrumentalist Andrew D'Cagna. Although the music of IRONFLAME
finally came to life in late-2016, its growth into fruition had been
decades in the making. Andrew grew up in the late-'80s/early-'90s
listening to classic metal acts like Iron Maiden, Savatage, Helloween,
and Judas Priest. He was also lucky enough to have been blessed with a
singing voice that lent itself well to the genre. Despite Andrew's given
ability, however, he rarely used it-instead becoming influenced by more
extreme realms of metal and pursuing such musical interests for 15 years,
playing various instruments in death and black metal bands.
Andrew was then recruited by renowned guitarist Jim Dofka as vocalist for
the band Dofka, where he honed his raw vocal talent and learned how to
sing properly through 2010, performing on the Humanity Bleak album. Years
later, upon the untimely death of a mutual friend, Dofka reunited for a
one-night performance in October of 2016. These events stirred up many
old feelings, and Andrew felt it was time to write an album of purely
traditional metal.
Thus, IRONFLAME was born.
The end result is Lightning Strikes the Crown: a 40-minute tribute to the
glory days of heavy metal. Free of pretension and arrogance, the music of
IRONFLAME is catchy, familiar, and hook-laden-just good old fist-banging
metal that is as honest as it is memorable. All of the instruments and
vocals were performed/recorded by Andrew himself, with the exception of a
handful of local guitar buddies recruited for solos-Jim Dofka among them.