Sydney based Progressive metal trio SteelSwarm recently released their masterfully created debut album “Aspects Of Dissonance” 6th of August. I really enjoyed the listening journey of this album it has some great melodies, strong vocals, powerful lyrics, a real solid DJentish funky bass hooks, and Read More …
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Crannk Reviews Currents – “The Way It Ends” Album
Currents – The Way It Ends Album Review by Mike the Punk CURRENTS are a 5 piece metalcore band from Connecticut in the USA. The band’s new album “The Way It Ends” was released on the 5th of June 2020 and features 11 tracks in Read More …
Crannk Interviews UK Thrashers Ifreann
Hailing out of Edinburgh, Scotland is Ifreann a thrash metal band that has been fast rising up the ranks of the Scottish Underground Metal scene with their mix of modern and old school thrash, since forming in 2015 Ifreann has released two Ep’s “Unearthly” in Read More …
Crannk Interviews Deified Vocalist Jamie Hughes
Fast-rising up through the British underground metal ranks are the razor-sharp unit of Merseyside Metallers Deified who deliver dark poignant metal that doesn’t shy away from the issues to deliver a powerful style of metal that is reminiscent of bands like The Haunted, DevilDriver and Read More …
Crannk Interviews Roberta From Astralium
Astralium are a Symphonic metal band hailing out of Italy and their debut album “Land Of Eternal Dreams” released August 23rd via Rockshots Records (worldwide release) and via Japanese label Spiritual Beast.”Land Of Eternal Dreams” is a symphonic metal gem of an album and the vocals Read More …
Crannk Interviews As I May
As I May remember that name because this Melodic metal band from Finland are here to stay and their second album “My Own Creations” is an absolute crusher of an album that well and truly stamps As I May on the metal scene. I have Read More …
Crannk Reviews Cryptid Erectus Album
Based out of Ballarat,Victoria Aussie Mad Dog’s Bunyip have recently released their cracker of a second album Cryptid Erectus. Bunyip are more Australian then VB on weetbix or Vegemite on toast and delivering their own unique brand of music with a sound that mixes components Read More …
Crannk Interviews Uivo Bastardo
Recently I had chat with Helder vocalist for Portuguese Industrial death metal Band Uivo Bastardo they recently released “Clepsydra” a really great debut album which we briefly mentioned in our May release article (https://crannk.com/crannks-mayhem-metal-release-picks/ ).And have also just released a new lyric video for their Read More …
Crannk Reviews Inert’s Debut album “Vermin”
Inert are a death metal band hailing out of Stockholm and Barcelona, heavily influenced by bands such as Entombed,Death,Dismember and Grave.Inert started as a two piece in 2015 by Gustavo (Vocals) and Xavier (Guitars) and seen the duo release Inert’s first Ep “Obliteration Of The Read More …
CRANNK reviews Nightmares of the sun: Approach of the epoch
Instrumental progressive metal, could that be a thing? Well, hell yeah! For me at least. I’m that guy that loves all those long songs by Iron Maiden, where there are lots and lots of music and no lyrics. So for me, this works really good! Read More …