Loser - Cromok (Official Audio)

Cromok is a thrash metal band from Malaysia. They are known to be the pioneers of thrash metal music in Malaysia. Consists of three members, Shamsudin Ali as Vocalist and Bassist, Khairul Anuar Shariff as Guitarist, and Tarmizi Mokhtar as Drummer.

Cromok was formed in 1986 by four young students, Shamsuddin Ali (Sam), Khairul Anuar Shariff (Karl), Kharuddin Muhammad(Din), and Tarmizi Mokhtar (Miji). They were studying at the University of Wollongong, in Australia. While in Australia, to past extra time, they decided to form a thrash metal band and they frequently perform their music in small concert and gigs primarily in Sydney Metal Scene. They got positive responses and steadily gaining their fans, made their name within the Australian Underground Thrash Metal scene rising the ranks along with Australian Godfather bands in the likes of Enticer, SSDC, Mortal Sin, Frozen Doberman, White Trash, Addictive and Detriment.[1][2] Their single, 'Misty' was their most popular song among their fans in those days.

Their first album/demo which was recorded during their studies, 'Images of Purity' were released in 1990 and were distributed among the tape traders of australian metal scene and later picked up by VSP Sdn Bhd to be distributed in Malaysia. They receive positive responses, mostly among the teenagers, and build a huge local fan base in a short period of time. Their songs such as 'Another You', 'I Don't Belong Here', 'Misty', 'Metallurgical' and 'Memories' were highly praised by their fans.

Always being discriminated, and banned during late 1980s and early 1990s in Malaysia by Malaysian government and media. Instead, they keep expanding their musical growth, releasing seven more stellar albums with EMI (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd; 'Forever In Time' (1993), 'Yours Truly' (1996), 'Mean, Meaner, Meanest' (1999), 'Image of Purity' [Remastered & Re-released] (2000), 'What's Left?'(2000), 'Deafening Silence'(2002), 'Untitled'(2004) and a few special edition compilation. 'Forever in Time' was their most successful album to date, sold over 100,000 copies in Malaysia.

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