There are bands who write songs… and then there are bands who carve out their existence from adversity, grit, and sheer bloody-minded refusal to quit. The Mendenhall Experiment has always been the latter, and with their new EP Chasing Ghosts landing via Lucent Records / Read More …
Angel Du$t aren’t slowing down… not for you, not for me, not for anyone. The Baltimore genre-twisters have kicked the door in once again with their brand-new single “DU$T”, another explosive taste of their upcoming album Cold 2 The Touch, arriving Friday, February 13 via Read More …
There are bands that tour.There are bands that grind.And then there are bands like Self Deception — the Swedish rock juggernaut that takes twenty years of fire, failure, fury, and evolution… and turns it into a worldwide party people are still trying to recover from. Read More …
Some bands reunite.Anberlin reload. Twenty years after Never Take Friendship Personal carved its place into the DNA of an entire scene, Anberlin are storming back into Australia — not as a nostalgia act, not as a museum piece, but as a living, breathing, combustible force. Read More …
Some bands play heavy.ANTI-SAPIEN weaponise it. The Brooklyn death-crust quartet have returned swinging with “At the Mercy of the Merciless,” the crushing title track from their upcoming EP dropping January 16 via Terminus Hate City. It’s raw, it’s ugly, it’s deliberate, and it hits like Read More …
A high-octane pop-punk party where nostalgia, family vibes, and full-tilt fun collided. There are nights where the world feels heavy, and then there are nights like this—pure pop-punk magnificence brought to you by the legends at The Phoenix AU.After interviewing Peej and Stead earlier in Read More …
A multi‑headed metal machine is exactly what comes to mind when talking about Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer Matt Hanchuck. Since 2016, he has been quietly building his own underground metal universe out of Thunder Bay, juggling old‑school thrash with Wreck Defy, southern‑soaked heavy metal Read More …
New Single “Feet & Greet” Drops With Amaranthe’s Mikael Sehlin + Massive 2026 European Tour Incoming Italy’s supreme overlords of parody metal, NANOWAR OF STEEL, are back at it—and this time, they are marching into battle with Mongolian boots, industrial beats, feet puns by the Read More …
Perth hardcore outfit Pincer+ have returned with a scorcher—“Yours To Erase”—the newest cut from their upcoming debut full-length Who Are You When No One’s Around, dropping Friday, 12 December through Greyscale Records and 1126 Records. And if you thought the earlier singles hit hard, this Read More …
There are bands built for the studio. There are bands built for the stage. And then there’s SYLOSIS — the UK titans who have spent the better part of two decades turning thrash, melodeath, and modern metal into a living, fire-breathing beast. Now they’re stepping Read More …
Few bands from the mid-2000s post-hardcore wave carry the same level of cult devotion, nostalgia, and raw influence as Drop Dead, Gorgeous. For a lot of us who came up in that era, In Vogue wasn’t just a debut album — it was a line Read More …
CRANNK REVIEWS: WILLIE J’s 6V6s & SEBASTIAN BACH LIVE AT THE GOV (ADELAIDE) Review by Brett Parmenter – ParMetal Media & Crannk Now, I’ve been to plenty of shows in my life — too many if you ask my wife — but very few have Read More …
