About to Crack

{{Infobox album

| name = About To Crack

| type = Album

| artist = Vitamin X

| cover = About To Crack (album).jpg

| alt =

| released = 11 September 2012

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio = Electrical Audio

| genre = Hardcore punk, crossover thrash

| length = 18:25

| label = Tankcrimes, Agipunk

| producer = Steve Albini

| prev_title = Full Scale Assault

| prev_year = 2008

| next_title = Age Of Paranoia

| next_year = 2018

}}

{{Album reviews

|rev1 =Ox-Fanzine

|rev1Score = 8/10{{cite web |url=https://www.ox-fanzine.de/web/rev/87462/reviews.207.html |title= VITAMIN X About To Crack |last=Hiller |first=Joachim |website=Ox-fanzine.de |date= June 2013 |accessdate=11 March 2020 }}

}}

About To Crack is the fifth studio album by Dutch punk hardcore band Vitamin X. Released through Tankcrimes on 11 September 2012 in the US, Agipunk in Europe and Peculio Discos in Brazil. The album was recorded at Electrical Audio in Chicago by Steve Albini.{{cite web |url=http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/music-interviews/vitamin-x/ |title=Vitamin X |author=Joseffer, Jordan |publisher=Thrasher |date=2010-03-22 |accessdate=2015-06-25}}

An animation video of the song 'About To Crack' was released in 2016 based on John Baizleys artwork and created by Marco IMOV from IMOV Studios.{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/vitamin-x-about-to-crack-video/|title=Watch a Skateboarding Skeleton Raise Hell in Vitamin X's New Video for "About to Crack"|website=Noisey.vice.com|access-date=11 July 2017}} The video features (animated) cameos from people across the punk and metal scenes (Lemmy, Danzig, Municipal Waste, Ozzy, etc.).{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/60838/vitamin-x-about-to-crack/|title=Vitamin X: "About to Crack"|website=Punknews.org|accessdate=11 July 2017}} The cartoon style owes a debt to Beavis & Butthead while paying homage to The Simpsons.{{cite web|url=http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2016/07/11/vitamin-x-about-crack-marco-imov/|title=Vitamin X 'About To Crack' by Marco Imov on Promo News|website=Promonews.tv|accessdate=11 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909095655/http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2016/07/11/vitamin-x-about-crack-marco-imov|archive-date=9 September 2017|url-status=dead}} The video went viral, reached millions of views {{Cite web|url=http://www.earsplitcompound.com/site/2018/03/14/vitamin-x-amsterdam-based-hardcore-punk-act-to-release-new-lp-through-southern-lord-this-spring/|title=VITAMIN X: Amsterdam-Based Hardcore Punk Act To Release New LP Through Southern Lord This Spring |website=Earsplitcompound.com|accessdate=5 September 2020}} on YouTube and was selected for the 2016 Annecy International Animation Festival {{Cite web|url=http://www.wbi.be/fr/news/news-item/onze-films-wallonie-bruxelles-au-festival-international-du-film-danimation-dannecy|title=Onze films de Wallonie-Bruxelles au Festival International du Film d'Animation d'Annecy|website=Wbi.be|accessdate=5 September 2020}}