I just dove into the official music video for PRESIDENT’s latest barrage, “RAGE” and let me tell you—it’s a cold shower of kaleidoscopic panic and pulsing aggression. This isn’t just another promo video—it’s a high-voltage manifesto wrapped in dystopian visuals and cryptic ritual. Visual Aesthetics: Read More …
BABYMETAL are already chaos incarnate. Add in Bloodywood, and you’ve got a recipe for weaponized serotonin and spiritual violence. THE SOUND OF TWO WORLDS COLLIDING From the very first note, it’s a sugar-coated gut punch. BABYMETAL hit you with their signature sing-song sweetness, but it’s Read More …
Words by Killer | Photos by chaos | Crannk Exclusive What Happens on the Bus… Gets Uploaded Anyway There’s something sacred about the madness that happens five hours deep into a nine-hour mini-bus haul with your band, your best mate, and a few unhinged ride-or-dies Read More …
There’s a moment—if you know, you know.You stand in front of a cranked amp, you hit one note, one impossibly heavy chord—and the air splits like a crowbar to the ribs. Your hair flies back like you’re in a wind tunnel built by Satan himself. Read More …
Somewhere between a cyberpunk riot and a traditional Japanese funeral gone nuclear, I got chewed up and spat out by Deviloof’s “Newspeak.” My pupils dilated. My skin tried to crawl off my bones. And I knew — this wasn’t music anymore. This was a full-blown Read More …
It was a frosty morning when I hit play—barefoot, half-caffeinated, sweat still clinging to last night’s gig. Then BOOM. IRONSTONE’s Moments Lost In Time hit like a wrecking ball strapped to a time machine, and I was instantly ripped out of my morning haze and Read More …
It begins with distortion and ends in silence — somewhere in between, Dharma makes sense of it all. On the surface, they’re a death metal band from Taiwan. But once you step inside their sound, you’re sucked into a vortex of chant, chaos, compassion, and Read More …
I stumbled upon NEMOPHILA‘s “G.O.D.” like a wanderer discovering an uncharted realm. This all-female Japanese metal band didn’t just play music; they unleashed a tempest that tore through my auditory senses and left me craving more. The Genesis of NEMOPHILA Formed in Tokyo in 2019, Read More …
There are few greater joys in this whirlwind hellride of underground music than catching up with someone who’s been in the trenches with you since the early days. So when I jumped on Zoom with my mate Brenden Bishop, axe-slinger for Adelaide’s metalcore hammer squad Read More …
There’s a rare kind of moment when an interview turns into something more — when it stops being about the questions and becomes a shared ritual, two people unspooling memories and meaning over distorted signal and digital static. That’s what happened when I sat down Read More …
Somewhere between a Tokyo fashion riot and a full-blown metalcore cage match lives HANABIE.—and their latest offering Spicy Queen is less a music video and more a glitter-drenched war cry from the underground. I hit play expecting a bit of chaos. What I got was Read More …
Let me tell you a story—one soaked in distortion, sweat, blood, and a touch of black humour. I sat down, ready to do a simple reaction vid. Nothing major. Just a new single from Melbourne maniacs Furious George called SISYPHUS. I expected riffs. I expected Read More …
