Last year, CRO-MAGS released their first album in twenty years with the critically-acclaimed »In The Beginning« and closed this period of international turmoil and disease with the released 6-song EP, »2020«, available worldwide digitally.
Today, CRO-MAGS launched the physical pre-orders for »2020« - the soundtrack to one of the most turbulent years on record and available as a limited special coloured 3-piece 7" vinyl box as well as on limited coloured 10" vinyl and CD!
Available on the 9th of April 2021!
Streaming, purchase and save your vinyl/CD copies of the new EP »2020« now: https://Cro-Mags.lnk.to/2020
Watch '2020' now: https://youtu.be/k5EXYJS89n8
The record itself is unintentionally 20 minutes and 20 seconds, and plays out more like a time-capsule look into the dumpster fire known as the year 2020. CRO-MAGS founder Harley Flanagan explains, “Just by coincidence we recorded 20 minutes and 16 seconds of music, so we simply added a few seconds of real-world chaos. The album cover is meant to look like a calendar - 7 squares across, with one picture from 2020 per day. Inside the booklet there are 12 pictures, one for each month of 2020; and the back is a shot of something I have never seen before in my life - a totally empty New York City. Corona Virus, quarantine, empty streets, brutality, burning buildings, violence and destruction: 2020 is a year none of us will ever forget.”
»2020« tracklist:
1 - Age Of Quarantine
2 - 2020
3 - Life On Earth
4 - Violence and Destruction
5 - Chaos In The Streets
6 - Cro-Fusion
“Fast punk and thrashy breakdowns” - DECIBEL
“The founding band of hardcore punk” - ROLLING STONE
“Fast-paced, raw, blazing and blistering” - CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND
“This one’s gonna snap a few bones and blacken an eye” - NEW NOISE
“A two-stepping salute to four-chord classic hardcore” - METAL HAMMER
“Heavy grooves, impressive depth and really powerful” - DOWN FOR LIFE
“A hybrid of ‘80s and ‘90s anthemic hardcore full of underlying anger” - BLABBERMOUTH