Release Date: April 11, 2025

Earache Records announced a brand new catalogue wide collaboration with Korean music tech company Muzlive today  manufacturer of  the hybrid physical/digital KiTalbum format. Popularised by K-Pop, 9m KiT albums have been sold since 2017.

The label is the first label in Europe to adopt the format outside K-Pop, and the first label to offer the format on frontline titles and as a chart reporting format in April 2025 with OCC.

Those Damn Crows’ upcoming album “God Shaped Hole” will be the first chart reporting album released on KiT. This KiTAlbum contains 5 x photocards of the band, including a cover artwork card and wallet sized photocard, plus a round sticker along with the cartridge.

How does it work?

The album’s tracks live are accessed by pairing the fully portable album cartridge with the KiT Player phone app (available to download on iOS and Android). The album lives on the KiT Player app for 24 hours, and can then be accessed again with the KiT cartridge as needed when that 24 hours is up.

High flying Welsh rockers Those Damn Crows are thrilled to confirm their fourth album, God Shaped Hole, will be released on 11th April, 2025 via long-time label home Earache Records. 

What separates Those Damn Crows from so many other bands is the beating emotional heart at the centre of their music. God Shaped Hole reaffirms the band's place at rock's top table. It marries music fuelled by power, passion, and melody to an intelligence and emotional honesty that's increasingly rare these days. Like all the best music, God Shaped Hole comes from the heart and the head.

"I don't know how to write any way other than being completely honest," says frontman Shane Greenhall. "Maybe I'm a little too honest and reveal a bit too much of myself. But I think that's what people connect with."

That kind of emotional openness is there in today's new single "Glass Heart", available to download instantly with any pre-order. It's shimmery pop-rock overtones gloss over a deeper meaning underneath. The song finds the singer admitting to his own insecurities and embracing them.

"The whole premise of that song is, 'I'm going to tell it like it is, flaws and all,'" says Shane. "I can be anxious, I can be unstable when sometimes It looks like I got my shit together, and have all the answers. I've been hurt and broken – who hasn't got a glass heart? But it's OK, because we're still here, we're still fighting."

In the decade-plus since they formed in the fiercely working class town of Bridgend, South Wales, Those Damn Crows have gone from wide-eyed hopefuls playing to 20 people at the Camden Barfly to the leading lights of their generation, a genuine modern rock powerhouse spearheading the scene's current resurgence, notching up a Top 3 album with 2023's Inhale/Exhale and sharing massive stages with everyone from Queens Of The Stone Age and ZZ Top to the Alice Cooper/Johnny Depp supergroup The Hollywood Vampires and German punk superstars Böhse Onkelz.

"Every album, I say, 'This one is going to be really heavy,'" says Shane with a laugh. "But it never really works out like that, because if you go into something with a pre-conceived idea of what you want, you will fail every single time. You have to let the music choose, that's how I see it."

Even by their standards, God Shaped Hole – recorded with longtime producer Dan Weller – covers a lot of musical bases while still retaining Those Damn Crows' unique identity.

At a time when rock music is constantly (and incorrectly) written off, Those Damn Crows prove it's more alive than it has ever been. God Shaped Hole is the sound of a band at the very peak of their powers – but one who are determined to keep building on their achievements. 

Track Listing:

1. Dancing With The Enemy
2. Glass Heart
3. Fake
4. Dreaming
5. Let's Go Psycho!
6. No Surrender
7. The Night Train
8. Turn It Around
9. Spit & Choke
10. Still