NEW FROM CRUCIAL BLAST! Coming Friday Oct 31st - available for pre-order now: VRVLVM / DEMONOLOGISTS split CASSETTE / DIGITAL crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/vrvlvm... NECRO-ELECTRONICS ATHAME All Is Vanity CASSETTE / DIGITAL crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/all-is... WARPING BLACK METAL

Hey! CRUCIAL BLAST @ VOIDCON 3 in Gettysburg, PA Oct 10 + 11 ! Records/cds/tapes/books/zines/rare horror paperbacks/shirts/dvd/blu/vhs, + MUCH more from the deepest corners of the extreme + experimental art underground! MORE INFO: VOIDCON.WORDPRESS.COM/ INSTAGRAM.COM/VOIDCON3 @voidcon.bsky.social

WESTERN MD FOLKS: C-BLAST will be here tomorrow, no big music spread this time, but will have a load of rare horror / occult / music / weird books, fanzines, music zines, OOP VHS/DVD/BLU, boxsets, + various odds and ends. 12pm-4pm in Hagerstown, MD COME + SEE ! www.facebook.com/events/62018...

Nate Garrett is a great guy. And a great musician. And if I was going through what he is going through right now, I'd be asking for help as well. His love and adoration for his wife is something I relate to immensely. If the spirit strikes you: www.gofundme.com/f/help-nicol...

LIGHT s/t 3xCDR+BOOKLET SET - few left in stock! Per ANTIMATTER HALO Substack : "Home-recorded black metal/ doom/ drone from a bunch of years ago. Sounds a bit like “Bloweyelashwish” era Lovesliescrushing/ Goslings/ Lycia meets the dismal ambient crypt slime of Moevot. " ⬇️⬇️⬇️

PAST BLAST: NEKRASOV's 2011 2CD "The Ever-Present" diverged from the Aussie black metal/industrial artist's usual black/noise mutation. Spread across 2 full-length discs, this is closer in texture + attack to the likes of VOMIR/DEAD BODY LOVE. GET: tinyurl.com/4bmpz425 HEAR: tinyurl.com/s8cryd3n

17 years ago on this date, Crucial Blast released GENGHIS TRON's album "Dead Mountain Mouth". One of the most unique albums of the 2000s, combining electronica, extreme metal, grind, chaotic HC, and breakbeats. Nothing has ever sounded quite like it. GET IT: crucialblastshop.net/album.php?ID...

COMING SOON FROM CRUCIAL BLAST: PSYWARFARE "LIVE QUEENS NYC 2025" Limited edition CASSETTE/ZINE/POSTER SET. Feat. @DwidHellion (INTEGRITY) + infamous WASP terrorist Hombre. Full document of their FEROCIOUS show, w/ full-color photozine + poster of show flyer. TOTAL ELECTRONIC VIOLENCE. Tour dates:

In the Hagerstown, MD area? Don't forget to come to the next VHS EXPO event Sunday, June 8 ! CRUCIAL BLAST will be reppin the huge stall of underground metal/punk/industrial/electronic weirdness on vinyl / cd / cassette, zines, VHS tapes, horror, more!!! See you there! tinyurl.com/2w5y7yha

PAST BLAST: GOSLINGS "Spaceheater / Perfect Interior" CD (Crucial Blast) GET IT: tinyurl.com/4v8mbaan LISTEN: crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/spaceh... Simultaneously ethereal and blown-out,angelic strains of four-track mud-majesty shaking the walls of the ancient well it's buried beneath.

MD/DC/WV/PA folks - Hey underground music maniacs and zone trippers! I'll have the CRUCIAL BLAST stall here at VHS EXPO this coming Sunday 6/8/25 in Hagerstown, MD - the usual supermart of metal/punk/industrial/weird vinyl, cds, tapes and more... www.facebook.com/events/53757...

COMING SOON FROM CRUCIAL BLAST: MY HEART,AN INVERTED FLAME "My Death Is More Beautiful Than Your Life" CD / CS / DG Crushing, textural synth-doom featuring Connors (A Minor Forest, Common Eider King Eider) on drums and Marc Kate (I Am Spoonbender, Never Knows, Driftloss) on synth /FX / vocals.

NEW ARRIVALS @ CRUCIAL BLAST SHOP: Buncha Relapse / Release titles, currently available in CRUCIAL BLAST DISCOGS SHOP: www.discogs.com/seller/Cruci... Reviewed/listed in www.crucialblastshop.net store in next week. Crucial Holy Terror HC, Japanese noise classics, experimental grindcore, and more!

CYTOPLASM's bizarro avant-slam album "Malfeasant Codices" out NOW, limited-edition tape ! Something akin to hearing Otomo Yoshihide's Ground Zero fused to the genetic structure of Malignancy / Defeated Sanity / DRIPPING/ NITHING. HEAR IT: tinyurl.com/mwny9whr GET IT: tinyurl.com/4y6m2b9w

PAST BLAST: GENGHIS TRON's "Board Up The House Remixes Vol. 5" LP feat. remixes by Tim Hecker, Nadja, Dudes You Can Trust - eerie ambient reworks of GENGHIS TRON's "Board Up The House" album material. Still have some in stock! BLAST SHOP: tinyurl.com/yxt29428 BANDCAMP: tinyurl.com/mud56899

Troller 's 2016 album "Graphic" is coming up on ten years (holy crap), & this Past Blast is still a seductive, strange, surprisingly heavy slab of molten darkwave that sounds as unique as the rest of the band's releases. HEAR IT: tinyurl.com/4djkhpvk GET IT (CD EDITION): tinyurl.com/yec93k8p

Maryland DeathFest attendees! See GENEVIEVE @ 9:20pm on Friday 5/23 @ Angels Rock Bar! Get your synpases re-wired by punishing avant-garde death metal, as heard on the Crucial Blast cassette "Akratic Parasitism". Dissonant death + Today Is the Day-esque violence---LETHAL live. Mark your schedules !

Not many labels out there that take chances these days and Crucial Blast has been one of the longest-running & most daring: www.crucialblastshop.net crucialblast.bandcamp.com #avantgardedeathmetal #experimentalmusic

W/ upcoming run of tour dates with Titan to Tachyons, time to get your skull re-screwed by MICROWAVES 's 2006 album "CONTAGION HEURISTIC" ! Still in print @ Crucial Blast: GRAB IT: crucialblastshop.net/album.php?ID... HEAR IT: crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/contag... ⇓ MORE ⇓

PAST BLAST: Black ambient seance of HUSERE GRAV's You Are Transparent CD (2013). GHOST DRONE. OCCULT AMBIENT. STYGIAN DRIFT. A few left in stock. GET IT: crucialblastshop.net/album.php?ID... HEAR IT: crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/you-ar... More ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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PAST BLAST! ACTUARY's 2013 CD "The Reality Is, The Dream Is Dead" is a ferocious blast of psychedelic noise w/ extensive art booklet. FFO: Bastard Noise, Pain Jerk, Government Alpha Still have a couple copies in stock, almost out! GET IT: tinyurl.com/bdhvam58 HEAR IT: tinyurl.com/2rrvnwsv

TOMORROW SUNDAY 4/13! Western MD area folks-Crucial Blast will have a big stall of metal/punk/industrial/noise/soundtrack / weird vinyl, CD, and tapes alongside loads of strange books, zines, oddball horror DVDs/Blu Rays, and lots more at TAPESCAPE! Come and hang out ! tinyurl.com/7v8hjaw2

Avant-garde witch-sludge. PAST BLAST: Wolvserpent's 2011 2xCD "Gathering Strengths/Blood Seed" collects vinyl-only material for a sprawling monument of immense ceremonial heaviness + psychedelic chamber-doom w/ violin. Still in stock! GET IT: tinyurl.com/54jpytef LISTEN: tinyurl.com/ycxv8veh

Tzertzelos thanks for reminding me! "On this day 17 years ago, Nadja released their 12th full-length album 'Desire In Uneasiness' through Crucial Blast (8 April 2008)!" crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/desire...

Into jazz-damaged experimental hardcore / noise rock ? PAST BLAST: If so, you gotta hear THE MASS. Bay Area sax-scathed thrash, proggy complexity, + angular heaviness galore w/ the 2005 album "City Of Dis"... LISTEN: tinyurl.com/5dysf66y GRAB THE CD: tinyurl.com/mrzdzcjk

New review for FASTIDIUM's "Vile Vortices" up now at CVLT NATION ! cvltnation.com/fastidium-vi...

An excellent, older review of Insade's colossal album "Human Obsession", out now on limited edition cassette from Crucial Blast. metalstorm.net/pub/review.p... LISTEN: crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/human-... INSADE Human Obsession CASSETTE crucialblastshop.net/album.php?ID...

Part of the latest triptych of weirdo death metal from Crucial Blast! CYTOPLASM "Malfeasant Codices" scrambles brain matter with bizarre, surreal, brutal slamming death metal, swirled with hallucinatory genre fuckery, blots of jazz, bursts of trippy electronics, prog, and other anomalous sound....

Metallic space rock via Bay Area psych legends SUBARACHNOID SPACE! From the vaults: "Eight Bells" was last SUBARACHNOID album before it morphed into the excellent new band EIGHT BELLS. Feat. stunning original art from Stephen Kasner (RIP). LISTEN: tinyurl.com/579xtzku Crucial astral heaviness.

Crushing sludge meets psychedelia and spectral earworm melody and hooks! WILDILDLIFE summon a sound akin to HARVEY MILK or MELVINS meeting ANIMAL COLLECTIVE. HEAR WILDILDLIFE "Six" : tinyurl.com/29wkrn27 HEAR WILDILDLIFE "Peas Feast": tinyurl.com/4zmmmrbp

FASTIDIUM's startling "Vile Vortices" is out tomorrow on CS / DL via Crucial Blast. Hawaiian death metal unleashing a vicious, maniacal tangle of dissonant death, abrasive noise, and deformed, demented heaviness. Cassette limited to 100 copies. GRAB: tinyurl.com/3br74sze HEAR: tinyurl.com/ypvyz284

UPCOMING INSADE SHOWS: 04 / 26 / 2025 Ottawa, Ontario, CAN @ Dominion Tavern 08 / 28 / 2025 Bois-Blanc, New-Brunswick, CAN @ Savèches Festival If you're able, do not miss this catastrophic Montreal death metal band in their full, live savagery. HEAR IT: tinyurl.com/w669rk9j

INSADE's "Human Obsession" cassette is out tomorrow! Crushing, psychotic OSDM from Montreal with a uniquely warped attack - incorporating elements of technical DM, frenzied hardcore, and noise. Features unreleased bonus track! GRAB IT: tinyurl.com/yzaxthsp HEAR IT: tinyurl.com/w669rk9j

FASTIDIUM's "Vile Vortices" CASSETTE/DIGITAL - EXCLUSIVE FULL STREAM PREMIERE AT NecroZine www.necrozine.com/fastidium-re... This exclusive premier features the 2 prev. unreleased bonus tracks. Maniacal Hawaiian dissonant death infected w/ noise, improv,+scabrous noise rock. Crushing chaos frenzy.

INSADE "Human Obsession" EXCLUSIVE STREAM PREMIERE ! www.necrozine.com/insades-huma... Hear "Human Obsession" reissue CS w/ unreleased song "Undiscovered Wonders of the Ancient World" @ NecroZine now. TAPE: crucialblastshop.net/album.php?ID... DOWNLOAD: crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/human-...

PAST BLAST: TOTIMOSHI - 2005's "¿Mysterioso?" is seriously heavy noise/sludge rock evoking Am Rep/Melvins, Latin/Cuban influences,80's post-punk, +improv ferocity a la MAINLINER / PSF. In print! LISTEN: crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/myster... GRAB IT: crucialblastshop.net/album.php?ID...

PAST BLAST! SCOTT HULL (Pig Destroyer,Agoraphobic Nosebleed) released 3" CD EPs (2008/2010), the AUDIOFILM II series. Exquisite fields of dark Lustmordian drift+ horror-capes , w/ original art from Seldon Hunt . crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/audiof... crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/audiof...

3 upcoming blasts of weird, violent death metal from Crucial Blast. Check them out! INSADE "Human Obsession" : crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/human-... FASTIDIUM "Vile Vortices" : crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/vile-v... CYTOPLASM "Malfeasant Codices" : crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/malfea...

I've got the last box of Aluk Todolo's phenomenal black metal / krautrock / infernal psychedelic debut "Descension" CD, released in 2007 via Public Guilt. Picked these up when label closed shop. VERY LIMITED QUANTITY. GET IT HERE (and read my full review): crucialblastshop.net/album.php?ID...

Some recent restocks / acquisitions on vinyl for the Crucial Blast shop: weird Finnish black/death, cult "outsider" HC, Polish deathdoom, heavy post-punk, harsh Japanese electronics, apocalyptic folk / religious sounds, and more... Reviews coming soon. crucialblastshop.net or tinyurl.com/2djbuuht

CRUCIAL BLAST INTERN #3. Athena continues in the tradition of extreme low-energy assistance here @ C-Blast compound. Also, if anyone ever rcvd an email from C-Blast appears to be garbled ancient Sumerian, you're looking at the reason. Apologies in advance.

PAST BLAST: Legion of Andromeda + the colossal "Iron Scorn" is barbaric , bestial primitive industrial death metal. Like an infernal engine built from both AUTOPSY + GODFLESH. Hear it, and be ground to ash. LISTEN: crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/iron-s... CD: crucialblastshop.net/album.php?ID...

PAST BLAST: Japanese glitch/electro deathgrind chaos. This 2008 album is a psychotic fusion of maddening death-grind, Planet Mu-esque breakcore abstraction, and Oval-like glitch complexity. Still in print! LISTEN: crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/- GRAB: crucialblastshop.net/album.php?ID=2515

PAST BLAST: 2008 Glitch-grind classic Concrete from French avant-death/grind maniacs WHOURKR (feat. IGORRR)). 40-minute ride to cybersplatter hell. One of the most skull-warping "death metal" albums C-Blast ever put out. Still in print! Listen to it here: crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/concrete

Open up to me. I've got something I want to play for you. clip.cafe/videodrome-1...

Baltimore math/prog Black / Death maniacs Genevieve playing Angels Rock Bar @ Maryland Deathfest, Fri 5/23 w/ Nogothula + Warp Chamber. Hit their set,get scrambled by the violent, harrowing avant-garde DM of "Akratic Parasitism", out now on Crucial Blast. crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/akrati...

Recorded in 2009-2010 and released as a super-limited 2xCDR set in 2011, the "Infinite Castigation" sessions is a humongous avalanche of bizarre heavy boom-bap, Abruptum-influenced blackened filth... 1/3 crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/infini...

The new DODSSANG TEMPEL CS/DG release "Mors Vincit Omnia " is premiering in full at Metal Injection - hear the whole album now on the embedded player at the link below. A torturous confluence of dungeon/kosmische synth, blackened noise, and HNW gigantism. metalinjection.net/av/full-albu...