Crash of the Crown is the seventeenth studio album by American rock band Styx . The album was released on June 18, 2021, by Universal Music Enterprises .[ 5] [ 6] The album charted for one week on the US Billboard 200 album chart, peaking at No. 114 on July 3, 2021. The album produced no singles that charted on any Billboard singles chart. This was also the last album to feature bassist Ricky Phillips as he would leave the band to spend more time with his family.
Title Writer(s) Lead vocals 1. "The Fight of Our Lives" Group 1:54 2. "A Monster" Shaw, Group 3:27 3. "Reveries" Gowan 3:03 4. "Hold Back the Darkness" Gowan, Shaw 3:58 5. "Save Us from Ourselves" Shaw 3:02 6. "Crash of the Crown" James Young , Shaw, Gowan3:46 7. "Our Wonderful Lives" Shaw 3:06 8. "Common Ground" Shaw, Gowan 4:00 9. "Sound the Alarm" Shaw 3:25 10. "Long Live the King" Evankovich Shaw 2:33 11. "Lost at Sea" Gowan Gowan 0:38 12. "Coming Out the Other Side" Gowan 3:48 13. "To Those" Group, Gowan 3:01 14. "Another Farewell" Evankovich Instrumental 0:26 15. "Stream" Shaw Group, Shaw 2:56
Apart from their 2005 covers album Big Bang Theory , this is the first Styx album since Styx II (1973) to feature no songwriting contribution from James "J.Y." Young .
Styx
Additional Personnel
Production
Production – Will Evankovich
Mixing – Will Evankovich, Alan Hertz
Engineering – Alan Hertz, JR Taylor, Scott Rottler, Russ Mackay, Sean Badum, Devan Skaggs, Will Evankovich
Mastering – Ted Jensen
Art Direction, Design, Illustration – Todd Gallopo
Liner notes – Mike Mettler
Band photography – Styx
Management – Charlie Brusco
Booking agent – Rod Essig
A&R supervision – Mike Ruthig
Production manager – Alex Sale
Product manager – Ashley Harris
Legal clearances – Andrew Labarrere
^ Styx [@STYXtheBand] (May 6, 2021). "New Styx album 'Crash Of The Crown' available everywhere June 18th. Pre-save now and listen to the first single: https://t.co/y0KOYP5BqY https://t.co/doaVYmP4DL" (Tweet ). Archived from the original on May 26, 2021. Retrieved October 1, 2021 – via Twitter .
^ Styx [@STYXtheBand] (June 4, 2021). "Our new single "Reveries" is out now! Listen at: https://t.co/XxZTQwTKCa New Styx album #CrashOfTheCrown out everywhere June 18th. https://t.co/NLdUWdZiaF" (Tweet ). Archived from the original on June 4, 2021. Retrieved October 1, 2021 – via Twitter .
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