Crom-Tech

Pictures

crom-tech

Listen to, buy or share

Buy

Buy on Amazon Amazon Expand purchase options
  • Digital download
  • Amazon Amazon
  • 7digital 7digital
  • Physical media
  • Amazon Amazon Search
  • eBay eBay Search
  • 13,329
    scrobbles
  • 809
    listeners

Tags

Everyone’s tags

More tags

Biography

Let’s go back, way back, to a time before Orthrelm was annhilating everyone’s grey matter with their hyperactive prog shred, and before the entire out-metal underground finally took notice of Orthrelm/Octis/Ocrilim guitarist Mick Barr and his mindmelting, astoundingly obsessive compositions and speedshred. Before all of that, Barr was a member of a band called Crom-Tech, who we’re not sure too many people were really into while they were around, but if you listen to this, their first “LP” from 1997, it’s totally the embryonic stages of what would become Orthrelm. Just like Orthrelm, Crom-Tech was a spartan duo of just drums and guitar, Mick Barr locking in his spiralling, angular, nearly incomprehensible guitar playing with drummer Malcolm McDuffie tossing out an endless stream of free jazz style drumming. Unlike Orthrelm, however, Mick was also the vocalist for Crom-Tech, and he shouts out a panicky sounding stream of made-up words and sounds that makes this stuff sound even more paranoid and intense. All of the tracks aren’t much more than a minute long, each one an intricate laser beam freakouts of mashed atonal death metal shredding, yelpy DC punk, and epileptic free-jazz percussion n’ skronk overload! The disc comes in a neat foldout sleeve with lots of weird artwork from Barr.
Read more… Edit bio

Top Albums

Listening Trend

809listeners all time
13,329scrobbles all time
Recent listeners trend:

Start scrobbling and track your listening history

Last.fm users scrobble the music they play in iTunes, Spotify, Rdio and over 200 other music players.

Create a Last.fm profile

Shoutbox

Leave a comment. Log in to Last.fm or sign up.

Top Listeners