Crook - Kingpin

Allow me to indulge myself with this one. Chances are you aren’t familiar, and by every stretch of the imagination this band doesn’t need more records than they have fans on Facebook. It’s the most ridiculous JMI yet, and once you hear it I think you’ll understand. The first insta back for October and the first JMI insta is none other than Crook! If you know me and WV, you know the eternal soft spot I have for early Facebook-core beatdown. It’s digital, it was a new genre, it was everything I loved about the scene as we kind of transitioned from deathcore out of djent, and in to this kind of metalcore revival that we’re in now. I think beatdown (and I’m going to keep saying beatdown for ease of use, fight me) was such a blip that really kind of captivated everyone from like 2013-2018. Plenty of bands have made a career of it, but as with everything now that it has matured it has gotten a bit more homogenized. CROOK was like, the most self-aware of the bands in this scene. It’s no