Crown Lands: the duo ushering prog’s illustrious past into a magisterial future

Crown Lands pose in a forest

Last year Crown Lands played the after-party at a Formula 1 Grand Prix, at the personal behest of Bahrain’s Prince Salman. 

“He’s the coolest guy ever,” says the band’s guitarist/bassist/keyboard player Kevin Comeau. “He’s really into rock music. We’d toured with Greta Van Fleet, and I guess Prince Salman reached out to their manager to ask if he knew any other new interesting rock bands. He watched our Odyssey live performance video, and took a chance on us. Nick Mason was in the audience. Our song The Oracle is a fourteen-minute epic with a lot of Floyd in it, and the whole time I was just like: ‘Do it for Nick, man! Do it for Nick!’ It was amazing.”