Metal Magazine, an independent culture title born in Barcelona in 2006 and known for its mix of fashion, photography, art and music, has published a detailed feature on CRYME and SEVEN’s first year.
The piece looks at how SEVEN came together in 2024, co-founded by Glenn Elliott and CRYME, and how the label quickly built its own lane in Berlin’s underground.
Metal frames SEVEN as a space where community, representation and creative freedom sit at the centre, with a clear FLINTA-leaning, queer-led outlook and artist-first deals.
As CRYME explains in the interview, the label was built to “put a flag in the ground for the artist” and to try to make “our little corner of the world a bit better.”
The article traces CRYME’s path from the dance floor to the DJ booth, and from early gigs at spaces like Grießmühle to touring internationally. He talks about learning to see the party from both sides of the booth, and the joy of helping dancers “forget their work and home problems and just, for a few hours, live in the moment.” Metal ties this back to the way SEVEN thinks about community: keeping things personal, caring and transparent, even while running a busy release schedule.
A key part of the feature is the London Boy: The Remixes EP, SEVEN’s first-anniversary release. Metal highlights how the project brings together four underground favourites – Roza Terenzi, JakoJako, MCR-T and Stef de Haan – all artists who supported the original track from the beginning. The interview digs into what collaboration and mutual support look like in CRYME’s world, including the fact that these remixers made time for the project not for money or exposure, but because they cared about the track and the community around it.
London Boy - The Remixes
- Cat no
- SEVEN7000LTD
- Released
- 22 November 2025
- Genre
- Tech House
- Format
- Vinyl Record
- A1London Boy (MCR-T Remix)3A · B♭ min139 BPM0:00
- A2London Boy (Roza Terenzi Remix)10A · B min134 BPM0:00
- B1London Boy (JakoJako Remix)2A · E♭ min139 BPM0:00
- B2London Boy (Original Mix Remastered)2A · E♭ min138 BPM0:00
- DIGITALLondon Boy (Stef de Haan Remix)
The piece also covers how SEVEN’s values show up in practice: fair 70/30 artist deals, open communication, and using the label platform to tell artists’ stories through mixes, events and interviews.
CRYME talks about always starting with the music first, then building everything else around the artist as a person. Metal closes by looking ahead, with CRYME hoping that SEVEN can encourage other queer artists “that they deserve a space in the spotlight” and maybe inspire a few other labels to “do better for the artists.”
It is one of the most complete write-ups so far on how SEVEN works behind the scenes and why it exists, as well as a strong portrait of CRYME as both artist and label co-founder.
Read the full article and interview here on Metal Magazine’s website.