For those unaware, Long Live The King is the second full-length album from the Greek heavy metal band Crystal Winds and is out May 29th, 2026 via Sleaszy Rider Music.

The band have returned with refreshed line-up and a more epic sound, of that you can hear right from the off! The new album is a classic heavy/epic metal monument, with 80’s influences freely strewn from the legendary bands of this glorious heavy metal era. Also containing elements from power metal and other music styles, Long Live The King is ready to bring Crystal Winds into the metal pantheon!

The current lineup is: Dimitris Giannakopoulos (Vocals); Giannis Vrontis (Guitar); Teo Kougias (Guitar); Ilias Gerakaris (Bass) and Thanasis Vassilakopoulos (Drums).

1. Warlords
2. Long Live The King
3. King Of Steel
4. For The Power & The Glory
5. Realm Of Light
6. Battalion
7. Riders Of Rohan
8. The Noble

For fans of Warlord, Manowar, Manilla Road, Omen, Brocas Helm, and even early Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, they open their new recording on the rhythmic belter Warlords and then bring us the melodically forceful, guitar-riffed title track Long Live The King, the grittier King Of Steel and the drum-fed brilliance of For The Power & The Glory.

Along next is the bass-driven rocker Realm Of Light which is in turn backed seamlessly by the Maiden-esque effectiveness of Battalion, the set rounding out on the propellently regimed sound of Riders Of Rohan, coming to a close on the frenetically-driven The Noble.

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