There is this band, that I kind of like. Some days, they are awesome! Some days, they are just too lame. It’s not really my kind of metal, but some of the songs are truly great! I’m talking about the Danish band Pretty Maids. They Read More …
Category: metal
Review: Evergrey – The Storm Within
I discovered Evergrey on the “In search for the Truth”-album in 2001. Thought it was an amazing album, got the hooks in me right away. After that I started to follow them, and we all know the classic album “The Inner Circle”. After that, it Read More …
Review: Sabaton – The Last Stand
There is this band that I really like, and I think that my fellow blogging friends – Adrian and Marie – don’t really agree with me on this one… There are many opinions about this band, but for me it really works! I’m into Iron Read More …
Review: The Vision Bleak – The Unknown
The Vision Bleak is a band from Germany, and they describe themselves as “Horror Metal in perfection”, and from the beginning it’s a band with only two persons – Ulf Theodor Schwadorf och Allen B. Konstanz. And from 2015 they have had help from Read More …
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
So, I’m a runner. So I just had to share. Yesterday I did my first Ultra Marathon! It was a race starting from the small town of Nora in Sweden, and we ran the trails down to Ånnaboda. You don’t know these locations, but running Read More …
New amazing Aussie and Swedish stuff!
I’ve added some new songs to the CRANNK 2016 playlist. This time, two bands from Australia. I thought it was a good idea, since the MetalDad is from Aussie-land, and second, it’s really great fucking music! First band I added was “Immorium”. Turned out that Read More …
Forgotten bands: Deprivation
Once part of the new metal Aussie revolution, and the band that made me find metal from Australia (well, this and of course, MetalDad!). Unfortunately, they only lasted one album and like one single, but that album… Oh man, what an album!! When I first Read More …
New song from Metallica – and I really like it!
It seems like we old-school guys finally can grin and headbang to Metallica again! We’re back to Metallica were we want them to be. Hard riffs, shredding guitars, and James with a good sound to the vocals. I started to headbang at first listening!! For Read More …
Are Opeth finally home?
I’ve been a BIG fan of Opeth for quite some time now. In fact, had I been younger, and not been born in 1971 and found heavy metal in the beginning of the 1980s, well, then I reckon that Opeth would be the biggest band Read More …
CRANNK intervjuar Frode Hovd om Aldaria – en metal-opera!
CRANNK fick ett meddelande För en tid sedan så ramlade det in ett meddelande till crannk.com på Facebook. Det var Frode Hovd från Norge som ville sprida budskapet om en ny metal-opera, under namnet Aldaria, som han håller på att komponera, och undrade om vi Read More …