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Welcome to Crack’s monthly round-up of extreme music

Make no mistake, the fringes of music are closing in on you. A world preoccupied by weighty, formless experiments, corpse painted theatrics and palm-muted misery is now but a click away. Those record sleeves decked with unreadable logos – the ones formerly only available in specialist shops in grimy small town malls – are now yours for the taking.

In the last few years the heaviest, most difficult artists committing their work to tape have been able to find an audience with relative ease. Sure, the audiences might not be huge but they’re always fiercely devoted. It’s a beautiful mystery. What seems totally absurd to one listener completely absorbs another. Those who are absorbed? They’re in it for life.

Grindcore, black metal, death metal, power electronics – call it what you like – each month we’re rounding up the best extreme music we can find on the internet and feeding it back to you.

BATTLE PATH – Ambedo by CrimsonEye Records

N.V. by Dragged Into Sunlight / Gnaw Their Tongues

Extreme Noise Terror by Extreme Noise Terror

Viscera EP by Haunted Shores

Providentia by Awe

The Hierarch by Hegemon

The Golden Veil by MAKE

Illustration by: James Burgess

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