REST IN POWER DARREN!
Cambridge is going to be quieter and dimmer without you
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REST IN POWER DARREN!
Cambridge is going to be quieter and dimmer without you
Stack of hard copies of the Crucial Zine 2025/26 Winter Holiday Special in orange and green
Yo! Hard copies of the 2025/26 Winter Holiday Special are IN, just in time to watch ice melt and the world collapse!
#CrucialZine #fanzines #zines #Athens #Hardcore #Punk #Ska #BestOf2025 #SpaceMosh #FruitTier #OneSentenceReviews #DoomMods #LamePredictions #DoItYourselfOrDoItWithFriends #FuckAI
Picture of the ULTIMATE DIS ROCKER GAMER spikey hair and Discharge shirt, getting shit done on a laptop, with Vergina tall boys, Kawakami and Doom posters for good luck.
Yo! You may have noticed that Issuu is going through its enshitification phase, so all issues of Crucial Zine are online at Calamรฉo. You can find a link to the profile in the comments!
#CrucialZine #fanzines #zines #hardcore #ska #punk #Athens #DIYORDIE #thriftyliving
A list of the 2025 Awards by Crucial Zine: Top youth crew LP: Cannonball in 2025 by Cannonball Top hardcore with feels & shredding LP: A Life's Refrain by Speedway Top fast hardcore LP: LP 2025 by Bad Beat Top comeback LP: Hope Against Hope by Catharsis Top hardcore EP: Forced Perspective by Cosmic Joke Top Greek EP: How to be Normal By Deep x Cut Top Greek demo: Demo 2025 by ฮ ฮฑฯฮฌฮบฯฮฟฯ ฯฮท Top Greek LP: Pisssniffers by Pisssniffers Top Greek Reissue: ฮฮตฮฝ ฮ ฮตฯฮนฮผฮญฮฝฯ by ฮงฮฑฮฟฯฮนฮบฮฎ ฮฮนฮฌฯฯฮฑฯฮท Top trad ska EP: Money is King by the Slackers Top ska/punk EP: Doom Garden by Catbite Top 2024 ska/punk EP that came out in 2025: Propagation House by The JB Conspiracy Tope ska/punk LP: Death of the heart by JER Funniest Metal Cover: The Bestiary by Castle Rat Most Overrated T-shirt Color: Black Worst LP Gimmick Since Picture Discs: Liquid-filled LPs Top cookies: Standard chocolate chip Worst pizza topping: Anything fish-related Funniest bit redacted from Epstein Files/Saddest thing to get worked up about instead of the ongoing genocide in Gaza: Photograph of Donald J. Trump sucking off Bill Clinton (or a horse) Top sci-fi concept ruined by techno bros: A.I. Top Doom Achievement: Okuplok UV Max by Coincident
Hard copies of the latest winter special will be out next week, until then, here are the Crucial Zine Awards for 2025!
#zines #fanzines #punk #hardcore #ska #skapunk #youthcrew #doom #pizza #cookies #greece #diyordie
PDF is here: drive.google.com/file/d/1dmmx...
Cover of Crucial Zine's "2025 Winter Holiday Special" depicts a blakc and white sketch of a Xenomorph in a hive clutching a head screaming "I'm not even supposed to be here today!"
The 2025 Winter Holiday Special is here! You can get the PDF for free online (see comment), hard copies will be available next week!
R.I.P. Raph, we'll tear it up again in the great pit beyond
If you haven't done so already, check out @randomhand.bsky.social breaking down their first album, song by song. Easily one of the best podcasts out there if you experienced the UK skacore scene "back in the day".
How about the mighty AQUABATS? It's never too early to be embarrassed to like ska
i drew both of these four years ago - one before the 2020 election, and one right after january 6 ๐คช๐คช๐คช
The score sounds about right for such an ambitious title, you probable couldn't expect anything nearer to the PC game that game shortly afterwards
To defeat boredom, I give customers & employers a minor jump scare by going to the alarm clocks section and set them all at random times
A Tesla Cybertruck on fire outside a Trump hotel.
So we already have the symbolic photo of the year, nice.
Work in progress excerpt or layouts and text for article entitled "Look at this fucking prick" about the life and times of Finn McKenty.
One of the greatest things of being super late with releasing a new issue of a #zine is that you get to rewrite/expand a bunch of articles/rants. Kinda glad about this one though, since the guy is the definition of an asshat - more on that soon!
"About To Crack" by Vitamin X is easily one of the best music videos ever.
A sticker of a pizza slice and the slogan "Love pizza, hate Nazis" placed on the beam of a bridge in Cologne. Around the sticker there is random graffiti and a ton of padlocks attached to fencing.
A polite reminder on simple facts, adorning a bridge in Cologne
Athens, Greece would be great
Issue number 9 of the "German Compliment" DIY punk rock fanzine, the cover of which features a painting of Arnold Schwarzenegger in armor and clutching a skull, with the tag line "To compliment or not to compliment" beneath him.
I just picked up the latest issue of German Compliment, what are you planning on reading this weekend?
Bit of a long shot, but does anyone know where I can get one of those "So Long..." flags that NOFX were selling on their final tour and pop up shops?
Stylized black and white text that reads "Punk Means Solidarity", along with a link to grpunkcrusthc.andcamp.com
#PUNKMEANSSOLIDARITY
grpunkcrusthc.bandcamp.com
Hey, if you are going to procrastinate, do it like a boss, i.e. find your copy of the Doom II wad and head over to eviternity.dfdoom.com.
Work-in-progress cover of Crucial Zine #13. Cover features a rendition of the cover from Metroid II, with Samus Aran crouched on the surface of an alien planet after firing her arm cannon, with a stylized Crucial Zine logo at the top of the page.
'Sup peeps! Crucial Zine is now in the house, with all the random thoughts I can't be bothered to share on FB or Twitter. The new issue (2+ years in the making ๐ฌ) is coming along nicely, interviews include Long Beach Dub Allstars and Values Here, expect it in (early) December! Here's the WIP cover:
