Listen to a Valentine’s playlist of heavy metal love songs, lovingly selected by Crypt of the Wizard

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

  • 05.11.15

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

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…