After a 15-year wait, Adelaide hardcore icons Day Of Contempt returned to headline Lion Arts Factory alongside Forge, Hammer 618 and Life Pilot. Read our full review of one of the biggest local hardcore shows of the year. Read More …
Tag: Heavy Music
From First To Last Sign To Fearless Records And Share Your Name In Red Ink
Fearless Records has welcomed iconic 2000s post-hardcore outfit From First To Last to its global roster, and the band have marked the new partnership with the release of their new single “Your Name In Red Ink”. Listen to “Your Name In Red Ink” here:https://fftl.ffm.to/redink For Read More …
Umbersound’s Joe D’Angelo: Why Doom Metal Doesn’t Need Perfection To Hit Hard
Umbersound mastermind Joe D’Angelo joins Crannk to discuss Tracks From The Slither, recording to reel-to-reel tape, songwriting as therapy, cosmic horror and why modern metal doesn’t always need perfect production. Read More …
This Is Me Breathing – Serenity in Suffering Album Review: A Brutal Deathcore Statement
This Is Me Breathing refuse to hold back on Serenity in Suffering, delivering a crushing deathcore assault packed with savage vocals, devastating riffs and relentless energy. Read More …
Miss May I Announce New Album No Place For Me And Share Sanctuary
Miss May I are stepping into a new chapter, and it sounds like one built on honesty, heaviness and real emotional weight. The Ohio metalcore veterans have announced their new album No Place For Me, set for release on October 2 via Solid State Records. Read More …
Psycroptic: Still Finding New Ways to Be Brutal After 25 Years
Psycroptic frontman Jason Peppiatt discusses the making of The Pulse Of Annihilation, working with Jason Keyser, recording with Joe Haley and why Australia’s technical death metal pioneers are still pushing themselves after more than two decades. Read More …
Bring Me The Horizon Release 20th Anniversary Re Recording Of Count Your Blessings Revisiting Their Deathcore Roots
Bring Me The Horizon have gone all the way back to where it began. The Sheffield heavy music giants have released Count Your Blessings | Repented, a fully re-recorded 20th anniversary edition of their landmark debut album, available now on vinyl, cassette and all streaming Read More …
Mangled Carpenter Crannk The Heavy To 11 On Between Blood And Silence | Crannk Reviews
Mangled CarpenterBetween Blood And Silence EPLabel: Rottweiler Records & Broken Curfew RecordsRelease Date: July 17, 2026 Brutal. Fucking ruthless. Mangled Carpenter have produced a titanic EP which cranks the heavy to 11 and does not offer any respite. Poetic aggression wrapped in chaotic screams, intensely Read More …
Paleface Swiss Announce 2027 Australian Tour With Counterparts And Fox Lake
Australia is about to get flattened again. Paleface Swiss have announced their return to Australia in January and February 2027, and this time joining the Swiss heavy music wrecking crew across the run will be Canadian metalcore legends Counterparts and Colorado heavy hitters Fox Lake, Read More …
Destruction of the Healer Are Building a Universe of Brutality — And Australia’s Youth Are Coming With Them
Destruction of the Healer are entering their heaviest era yet. We spoke with the Wollongong death metal band about A Universe Bereaved, DIY recording, and building the future of Australian heavy music. Read More …
Brand Of Sacrifice Return With Explosive Double Single Seeing Red And This Place Wasn’t Meant For Us
Brand Of Sacrifice are back, and they have returned with serious force. The Canadian deathcore titans have unleashed a devastating double single, “Seeing Red” and “This Place Wasn’t Meant For Us”, marking their first new music since late 2023 and the opening strike of what Read More …
Bloodhunter Push Their Sound To Brutal New Heights On Sons Of The Abandoned | Crannk Reviews
Savage doesn’t even begin to describe the vibe on Sons Of The Abandoned. Bloodhunter have brought us an album that hits harder than my mum with a wooden spoon when I was naughty as a kid. Brilliantly technical guitar riffs, solos chiselled out of rock, Read More …