Chrome Cranks

Musical Group

Forfans of noisy garage rock, punk blues, and lo-fi/noise-inflected rock
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The Profile

American noise/garage rock band blending blues, punk and high-volume noise. Fronted by vocalist Peter Aaron and featuring William Weber and Bob Bert among members; active in the 1990s and returned with the 2012 album Ain't No Lies In Blood.

Reviews describe the band's sound as a deliberate attack on traditional blues forms, emphasizing loud feedback, lo-fi production and irregular tempos. Bob Bert (referred to in reviews) is publicly known for previous work with Sonic Youth and Pussy Galore.

Two DeBaser reviews describe Chrome Cranks as a noisy mix of blues, garage and punk. One review frames their sound as a provocation against traditional blues (3/5). Another praises the 2012 comeback Ain't No Lies In Blood for its visceral garage-punk energy (4/5). Both highlight loud, lo-fi, feedback-driven aesthetics.

Notable Quotes

❝ The four self-proclaimed musicians are all called to account for: desecration of the minor pentatonic scale, contempt for the twelve-bar blues, use of irregular tempos, tribalism, noise-making, garage rock, and low fidelity with the aggravating circumstances of continuation of the offenses and association in a gang, named "Chrome Cranks," aimed at distributing the aforementioned through analog and digital phonographic media and public performances...

❝ To give us an idea of what the Chrome Cranks are made of in their latest 2012 work "Ain't No Lies In Blood", the opening track "I'm Trash" would be enough, a devastating garage punk shouted by a possessed Peter Aaron.