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Artist......: Ironflame
Album.......: Lightning Strikes the Crown
Year........: 2017
Genre.......: Heavy Metal
Type........: Album
Label.......: Divebomb Records
Language....: English
Source......: WEB/FLAC (16bit)
Quality.....: 1012kbps / 44.1 kHz / Stereo
Tracks......: 10 tracks
Playtime....: 00:50:11
Size........: 363.5 MiB
R.Date......: 2026-08-14
S.Date......: 2017-05-22
Url.........: https://open.qobuz.com/album/oz1i1bl1oruaa
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
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.