THE CRAWLING

We are pleased to announce the release of our debut album "ANATOMY OF LOSS," 7th April 2017. The album features 7 tracks of misery and loss, spanning over 46 minutes. The artwork was created by none other than Travis Smith from Seempieces | Illustration & Design by Travis Smith , and looks fantastic on the 8 page jewel-cased booklet. It is released through Grindscene Records , and will be available through the usual outlets. Pre-orders will go on sale soon, and accompanying album merchandise will follow. Please share and spread the misery!

Our debut album is well underway know. We are just in the process of fine tuning the mix, and working towards the master. It's sounding fantastic - very dark, very heavy! The artwork is almost finished; an amazing piece by a fabulous artist whom we are thrilled to be working with. All will be revealed soon. We expect to release early 2017, so stay tuned. Stay miserable...

Do not miss this special edition of Metal Messiah Radio - focused on the Northern Ireland invasion of Bloodstock Festival ; particularly our satanic brothers Zlatanera and our good self. 14th September 10pm http://www.metalmessiahrecords.com/index.html Join the chat room, and listen to our interview with DJ FOXXIN!

Bloodstock and the upcoming Siege of Limerick has been a busy time for us, and we have received some amazing support from radio stations, TV, youtube, photographers, and streaming sites. Below features some of the fun we have been having! Great to meet Xander from  Total Rock ! Room 101 radio feature on Siege of Limerick Planet Mosh - Aisha chats with the band at Bloodstock Massive hails to DJ FOXXIN from Metal Messiah Radio who has been playing a lot of The Crawling lately. Tune in 24/7, and interview to follow.

There are loads of people that we would like to thank, and apologise in advance for anyone we may have forgotten; but there were so many that made this whole thing happen. Thanks to; James Loveday from The Distortion Project for hosting the MTM event, the Belfast metal community for voting for us throughout the heats, all the bands we played alongside to get to Bloodstock, and of course Simon Hall for choosing us to play the New Blood Stage. We would like to sincerely thank all the Bloodstock staff and organisers who looked after us on the day, particularly "Ammo" for keeping us right, our techs on the day, the sound engineers, and anyone else involved in the running of the New Blood Stage. We really appreciate all the radio stations, magazines, webzines, you tubers, photographers, that took time to chat with us; it was a lot of fun! Thanks to Andy Pennington for arranging!!! It was also fantastic to see so many Irish bands leave their mark at Bloodstock - hails to Zlatane...

photo by K. Clarke [ exposing shadows ] A huge word of thanks for everyone that came to see us at Sunflowerfest yesterday (especially you guys that bought merch)! It was a great day out, and a different experience for us to play such an event - especially during the day! :D Cheers to the sound engineers, stage hands, and all those involved who ensured everything ran smoothly. We hope to return again. Stay miserable.

To celebrate playing Bloodstock 2016, we are giving away a single special edition "The Crawling merch Can" It's a singel production can packed with exciting one off merch, including: Limited edition t-shirt "In Light of Dark Days" MCD "Choking On Concrete" CD single Sticker One off mug Set of 3 badges TO ENTER: click here , and follow the instructions! See you on the Hobgoblin New Blood stage, Friday 12th August!

We are pleased to announce we won the M2TM competition, and will be playing BLOODSTOCK 2016!!!!! All the bands played strong sets tonight, and shows the wealth of talent in Northern Ireland. Sincere thanks to everyone involved; the bands for getting together and supplying gear, the sound guys for making it heavy, Simon Hall from BLOODSTOCK for coming over to personally watch the bands, the crowd support from day one, and finally to James Loveday for making it happen. Stay miserable. Bloodstock; we are coming... photo: Kerri Clarke photo: Kerri Clarke

We are thrilled to announce we have made it into the Bloodstock Metal 2 The Masses FINAL next friday in Belfast! All the bands in our semi final were fantastic, and of course congratulations to Scimitar for coming first! Special kudos to Shrouded, who played a blinding set, and Erosion - great night all round. We hope to see you all next Friday for the final!

Inferno 2016 Inferno Metal Festival needs no introduction, but for the unfamiliar, it's an extreme metal festival held in Norway to coincide with the Easter weekend. It's an indoor event spanning over a few venues across 4 days, limited to 1200 capacity, showcasing about 40ish bands.  In 2015 I attended for the first time, attracted by  My Dying Bride ,  Behemoth ,  1349 ,  Bloodbath ,  Secrets Of The Moon , to name but a few. It was simply fantastic. Accommodation is solely based in a nearby high class hotel, in which the bands also stay; I effectively ate breakfast with My Dying Bride and Enslaved one morning!  Anyway, it was a fabulous festival, the bands were fantastic, but the event itself was just magnificent. I suppose the whole "Norwegian Black Metal" has a lot to do with it, but it did feel like a special event, certainly very different to my annual trip to Hellfest.  Fast forward 10 months and the band in wh...

Inferno Metal Festival is done! We would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone that came down to see us play Revolver at  INFERNO METAL FESTIVAL NORWAY . It was a fantastic experience to play to such an amazing crowd, so far from home. A heart felt thanks to everyone that banged their heads, sang along, and bought merch. Special kudos to Eric for the sound, Sarah for looking after us so well, and everyone involved in the event. Norway - we salute you.  Stay miserable...

A fan video for "The Right To Crawl" from the EP, "In Light of Dark Days" has appeared on YouTube . It's pretty surreal, but we love it! Cheers to the creator Paul David  - check it out!

The Crawling are featured on Limerick's " The Metal Show " after the Siege of Limerick. It features a short interview with Andy, as well as the first track from the new EP, " The Right To Crawl ." Sincere thanks to Giz for featuring us! Listen on mixcloud  here .

We have returned from an amazing trip to the Siege of Limerick. Thanks to everyone who watched us play, came to chat to us and bought our merch. We appreciate your support. Thanks to all the staff during the event; it was great to have someone run the merch for us, staff to watch our gear, and the very helpful sound engineer! Sincere kudos to John for arranging the event and having us on board - we hope to part of the event again in the future. Hails to Giz from Limerick Rock Radio for the interview as well - we will have a link to the audio at some stage too. We have at least one more show before the end of the year - updates to follow!

" In Light of Dark Days " is officially available now. You can preview the 3 tracks and buy the full EP on CD, or in digital format from our Bandcamp page . Enjoy, and thanks for the support!

PRE ORDER SPECIAL OFFER: Zipped Hoodie + 'In Light of Dark Days' CD + Button Badge for just £ 25 ! T-Shirt + 'In Light of Dark Days' CD + Button Badge for just £ 12 ! https://thecrawlingband.bandcamp.com/merch Pre-order now to ensure we get correct sizes.

The Crawling Interview - Dark Underground Zine 1.For those that have never heard of you before, can you tell us a little bit about the band? The Crawling is made up of three guys who have a combined love of slow, miserable, death metal type music. All of us have been in various bands throughout the years, and, with the exception of Gary, there was a bit of a lull output wise; so Stuart decided to start a death metal band. He asked me to join on guitar, we refined our sound a bit and, finally Gary joined on drums - the trio was complete! 2.How would you describe your musical sound? Everyone has their own take on these sort of questions. Personally, i hear a slow death/doom metal band, and i think the other two guys would pretty much agree. That said, there have been a few reviewers who have mentioned a 'black metal' sound to our latter material. So, i suppose The Crawling are a slow death, doom, black metal ensemble! 3.What are some of the lyrical topics and subje...

'End of the Rope'  from our forthcoming EP, ' In Light of Dark Days. ' End of the Rope

"In Light of Dark Days' is complete! A new 3 track EP of utter misery coming soon! Enjoy this 30 second clip of CATATONIC.