Grab your swords and cue the choir — Frozen Crown are back, and this time they’ve come for the throne. The Italian power metal six-piece has officially announced their sixth studio album, The Legend of the Six Kings, dropping October 2 via Napalm Records. It’s their second release for the label, and if the setup is any indication, it might just be their most ambitious chapter yet.

Rather than another straight-ahead salvo of anthems, The Legend of the Six Kings takes a narrative turn. The record picks up the thread from Frozen Crown’s 2018 debut The Fallen King, continuing the saga of the Kings and the Tyrant across ten new tracks. The band describes it as a distillation — stripping away the frills and honing in on the “quintessential Frozen Crown tune.” The result is darker, tighter, and, frankly, meaner. Lead vocalist Giada “Jade” Etro trades her sunnier delivery for something more sinister as she claims the titular frozen crown, and the whole record leans into a colder, more cinematic atmosphere.

Sonically, the band is stretching in every direction that still counts as power metal. Opener “Lightning in the Sky” charges out of the gate with speed metal urgency, while “Who Wants to Burn in Heaven” trades battlefields for the pits of hell with a choir-driven, live-ready chorus. “Reborn” leans into team-spirit anthem territory, and “The One” doubles down on the Tolkien-inspired mythos with a three-guitar harmony solo built to level venues. Elsewhere, “Winter Hearts” nods hard to the band’s early material with growls and heavy riffs, while the title track flirts with melodic death metal via a growled duet between Jade and guitarist Federico Mondelli.

And then there’s the curveball: Frozen Crown have taken Goo Goo Dolls’ 1998 megahit “Iris” and rebuilt it as a power metal epic, moving from waltz-time balladry to double-kick fury. “I just want you to know who I am” will never sound the same again — and honestly, that’s the kind of unhinged confidence you want from a band making a play for the crown.

The album also marks the arrival of a beefed-up creative team, including new lead guitarist Aleksandra Stamenkovic, whose old-school abrasive leads add extra bite to the record. Visually, the band tapped filmmaker Raoul Noise, prop designer Daria Gislon (who built the literal frozen crown and throne), and painter Sheila Franco for the hand-painted cover art — aiming for an aesthetic somewhere between Tolkien’s regal grandeur and Robert E. Howard’s brutality.

The Legend of the Six Kings is available in a stack of collector-friendly formats, including a Napalm Mailorder–exclusive wooden boxset (limited to 300 copies), splatter and baby blue vinyl variants, standard black vinyl, CD digipak, and digital.

Track Listing:
1. Lightning in the Sky
2. Who Wants to Burn in Heaven
3. Reborn
4. The One
5. Iris
6. Winter Hearts
7. River of Time
8. Through the Fire
9. To the Stars
10. The Legend of the Six Kings

North American fans can also catch Frozen Crown on the road supporting Kamelot (with Visions of Atlantis) starting August 28 in Orlando and running through late September, before the band heads to Europe with Beast in Black and Sonata Arctica from late October into November.

Pre-order The Legend of the Six Kings here: http://lnk.to/FC-TheLegendoftheSixKings/napalmrecords

Stream Frozen Crown on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3PDqqLdCbfyxk9x5RwaB4Y

The kings and queens have returned. Bend the knee — or better yet, buy the vinyl.