Earlier this year, CRO-MAGS released their first album in twenty years with the critically-acclaimed, In The Beginning. To close out this year of international turmoil and disease, the band announces the 6-song EP, 2020, available digitally on December 11th. Today marks the release of the eponymous track “2020” - packed with all the pissed-off, venomous aggression you’d expect from CRO-MAGS. Listen to “2020” now.
The EP itself is 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. Coronavirus, quarantine, empty streets, brutality, burning buildings, violence, and destruction: 2020 is a year none of us will ever forget.”