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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Western MD area folks - don't miss this killer death / black metal and dungeon synth show tomorrow in Hagerstown, MD! CRUCIAL BLAST will be there with the full vendor stall. JENN TAIGA, CULTIC,Vaelastrasz, ATHAME and more !!!! www.facebook.com/events/15608...

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Western MD area folks: CRUCIAL BLAST will have a big stall of metal/HC/noise/weirdo music (LP, CD, CS, etc), rare books, weirdo horror movies, and more at the TAPE SHOW this Sunday August 16th in Hagerstown, MD - come and hang! More info at : www.facebook.com/events/wacoh...

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

SUNDAY JUNE 14TH: Crucial Blast will be set up at VHS EXPO in Hagerstown, MD, with a big stall/booth of weird metal, offbeat punk, industrial, noise, experimental horror fiction, surrealist horror / cult video, zines, LPs, CDs, more! Come and hang out ! DETAILS: www.facebook.com/events/wacoh...

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

My Heart, an Inverted Flame - "My Death Is More Beautiful Than Your Life" FULL ALBUM PREMIERE at CVLT Nation. Hear the entire album in advance of the upcoming release. Tectonic synth-doom at its heaviest! GO HERE: cvltnation.com/my-heart-an-...

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

MY HEART, AN INVERTED FLAME "My Death Is More Beautiful Than Your Life" LISTENING PARTY! Join the band for a live Bandcamp listening party this Thursday 5/14 in advance of the release of their new album. RSVP here: myheartaninvertedflame.bandcamp.com/merch/my-dea...

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My Death Is More Beautiful Than Your Life Listening Party from My Heart, an Inverted Flame

Listening Party from My Heart, an Inverted Flame.

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

MD/DC AREA FOLKS: CRUCIAL BLAST will have a huge stall set up at TAPESCAPE tomorrow in Hagerstown, MD! Loads of weird metal, hardcore, noise, experimental, horror and other stuff will be available, including lots of new releases and rare books / horror paperbacks! Come on out and hang!

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

OUT NOW: THUNRAZ Incineration Day CASSETTE Apocalyptic, forward-thinking heaviness from Estonia. Industrial death metal crush infused with unorthodox dissonance, post-punk / noise rock influence, and experimental soundcraft. BANDCAMP: tinyurl.com/brrskkrv ORDER: tinyurl.com/yw22pd7e

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

COMING SOON: THUNRAZ Incineration Day CASSETTE (Crucial Blast) LISTEN TO BANDCAMP STREAM + ORDER: crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/incine... ORDER FROM CRUCIAL BLAST WEBSTORE: crucialblastshop.net/album.php?ID... Crushing + ferocious Estonian industrial death metal:angular, acidic, apocalyptic.

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

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

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

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

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

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...

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Vintage Expo: Toy and Tape Show

Event in Hagerstown, MD by Adam D Brown on Sunday, August 10 2025 with 112 people interested.6 posts in the discussion.

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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...

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Donate to Help Nicole: A Selfless Soul in Need for Cancer Treatment, organized by Nate Garrett

My name is Nate Garrett. Some of you may know me through music,… Nate Garrett needs your support for Help Nicole: A Selfless Soul in Need for Cancer Treatment

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

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. " ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

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...

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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:

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

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.

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

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...

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VHS EXPO 2025: Physical Media Market

Event in Hagerstown, MD by Captain Adam’s VHS Pirate Ship on Sunday, June 8 20258 posts in the discussion.

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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.

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

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!

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

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

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

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

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

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

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

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 !

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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 ⇓

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

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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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

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

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TAPESCAPE: VHS and Vinyl Convention

Shopping event in Hagerstown, MD by Captain Adam’s VHS Pirate Ship on Sunday, April 13 20255 posts in the discussion.

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

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

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

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...

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Desire in Uneasiness, by NADJA

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

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...

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Insade - Human Obsession review

An aggressive, fast-paced death metal rollercoaster reveals far more depth and variety upon closer inspection.

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

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....

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

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.

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Eight Bells, by SUBARACHNOID SPACE

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

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

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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.

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FASTIDIUM Release "Vile Vortices" via Crucial Blast - NecroZine

Oahu’s FASTIDIUM have emerged from the Hawaiian underground with Vile Vortices, a feral dose of death metal insanity now available on cassette and digital formats through Crucial Blast.

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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-...

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INSADE’s "Human Obsession" Gets Cassette Reissue via Crucial Blast - NecroZine

Montreal’s INSADE have returned to light with a physical release of their unhinged second album, "Human Obsession", now available on cassette and Bandcamp digital through Crucial Blast.

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

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...

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Mysterioso, by TOTIMOSHI

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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...

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

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...

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

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...

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CRUCIAL BLAST @crucialblast.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

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

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