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Welcome back to Selections, a series of artist-curated playlists from those in the know.
In It For Life
Each month we plunge into the depths and return with a fistful of metal, grindcore, noise, thrash, punk and whatever else did damage to our ears
In It For Life
Each month we plunge into the depths and return with a fistful of metal, grindcore, noise, thrash, punk and whatever else did damage to our ears
Zayn Malik reveals tour merch designed by Iron Maiden illustrator
The pop idol has plumped for a darker touch to his now-available Mind of Mine merchandise…
In It For Life
In It For Life is Crack’s monthly round-up of extreme music
Sunn O))) announce European dates, play in world’s largest maze
Sunn O))) have announced a string of dates across Europe including a one-off appearance in…
In It For Life
Welcome to Crack’s monthly round-up of extreme music Make no mistake, the fringes of music…
In It For Life
Welcome to Crack’s monthly round-up of extreme music Make no mistake, the fringes of music…
In It For Life
Welcome to Crack’s monthly round-up of extreme music Make no mistake, the fringes of music…
Check out these photos of metal heads’ jackets
Red Bull Music Academy have shared a collection of images by Peter Beste celebrating metal…
In It For Life
Welcome to Crack’s monthly metal round up
In It For Life
In It For Life is Crack’s monthly round-up of extreme noise and heavy metal
Desertfest London prepares for three days of stoner, doom, sludge and more
Electric Wizard and Corrosion of Conformity will head up the April festival
Fuzz – II
As their name suggests, Fuzz is ultimately three longhairs headbanging along to distortion
Deafheaven to tour UK and Europe
US-based black-metallers Deafheaven are heading out to the UK and Europe Deafheaven will be returning…
Stream Corrections House’s Superglued Tooth
Here’s some grinding industrial metal from members of EyehateGod and Neurosis It’s not often you…
Mayhem’s Live In Leipzig set for reissue
The band’s iconic live album will be reissued on 27 November In their heyday Mayhem’s…
SUNN O))) Announce Kannon
Drone behemoths Sunn O))) are back with their first album in six years Sunn O)))…
Deafheaven – New Bermuda
Deafheaven have long owed as much to glacial post-rock and the magisterial screamo of Funeral…
Slayer:
Track by Track
Crack’s guide the vital recordings that brought Slayer to Repentless.
Slayer – Repentless
‘Repentless’ can be roughly divided into two categories: chugging half-time slammers and rollocking thrash gallops.
Baroness announce new album share Chlorine & Wine
Progressive metallers Baroness return with first new material since 2012 accident Just a month after…
Slayer:
From The Depths
In 1986, four young men from LA decided to make the fastest, most brutal record of all time
Deafheaven announce new album
Atmospheric black metal mob Deafheaven are back Few details have been announced thus far but…
Metal fans are the happiest music fans
We always knew metal was the only thing keeping us sane. It’s official, metal is…
Five Reasons To Love Phil Anselmo
Happy Birthday to the hardest working man in metal
Check out the title-track from Slayer’s upcoming 11th album ‘Repentless’
California thrash icons Slayer have released a ‘Visualiser Video’ for Repentless, the title-track from the band’s…
Slayer Reveal ‘Repentless’ album artwork
Slayer have just dropped the artwork for their upcoming album Repentless. The cover was designed…
Faith No More – Sol Invictus Album Review
If you don’t know much about Faith No More there’s a high chance you think…
Temples
Temples Festival returned for its second year, and judging by the range of international accents…