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Chrome Cranks were a NYC band active from 1989 till 1998. They played raw brooding garage-punk blues rock following in the lineage of the likes of the Scientists, the Gun Club, the Cramps and the Stooges.

Prior to this at least one of them (how many?) had played in the band the Honeymoon Killers.

Their first release was a track called Fool on Ice on a 1991 compilation on Atavistic Records. First single Eight Track Mind was released on PCP records in 1992. There followed singles with such underground rock labels as Sympathy for the Record Industry, Demolition Derby and Insipid.

Of the tracks that didnt make it on to the first eponymously titled album released on PCP in 1994, most were collected on the album Oily Cranks released on Atavistic in 1997.

The second album was Dead Cool (Crypt 1995). Their third and final album proper Love In Exile, which featured more slowed and stripped down bluesy sounding numbers, was released on PCP in 1996.

In 2007 Atavistic have released a double CD collecting rarities and demos from 92 till 98 called Diabolical Boogie.
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  • akzincke

    And the new album sounds awesome too.

    23 Oct 2012 Reply

  • akzincke

    Damn, been listening to Dead Cool for a couple of years but only just heard the self titled today. Way cooler.

    21 Oct 2012 Reply

  • borungus

    Tripoli Penetration by Damaged Testicles was released on 6-6-12, four tracks of intricate experimental sound manipulation which originated from improvisational sessions. This material is as noisy as Nurse With Wound, and as angry as Coil at their industrial and ritual noise making peak. Enjoy.

    10 Jun 2012 Reply

  • ALVIN-HANG

    Fuckin' awesome!

    12 Jan 2011 Reply

  • TheBlackPope

    .. and it works most of the time

    5 Feb 2010 Reply

  • meatierwhore

    Like Scientists with Iggy on vox. When it works, it's amazing.

    4 Dec 2009 Reply

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