Crucial Blast

10/10/2025

A reminder that CRUCIAL BLAST will be set up at VOIDCON 3 in Gettysburg, PA tomorrow Oct 10th and Saturday Oct 11th ! Tons of records/cds/tapes/books/zines/rare horror + occult paperbacks/shirts/dvd/blu/vhs, and MUCH more from the deepest corners of the extreme and experimental music underground!

Friday, October 10th @ 11am / Sat Oct 11 @ 1pm
The Attic
The West Building
GETTYSBURG COLLEGE

A DEFIANT CELEBRATION OF OUTSIDER ART

** FREE ADMISSION **

THE BEST IN INDIE HORROR / EXTREME LITERATURE AND ART
BOOK FAIR, LIVE READINGS, PANEL DISCUSSIONS, AND MORE!
BASIC REGISTRATION for VOIDCON 3 is free and includes a program, access to the book fair, panels, and readings.

ALSO AVAILABLE: VIP PACKAGE with swag bag, + access to special events and after-show!

MORE INFO:
VOIDCON.WORDPRESS.COM/
INSTAGRAM.COM/VOIDCON3
X.COM/VOIDCON2025
The Lurking Transmission

10/05/2025

My heart is broken.

Hold your loved ones close. Try to live in the moment with the ones you care about. You never know where the current of the chaos of life leads you.

And cherish the musicians and artists that brave that chaotic current to perform and share their unique vision with all of us. Their efforts are greater than most know. Their determination and sacrifice needed to bring us into their unique art is massive. Without these musicians and artists as candle lights in the dark, our lives would be so much more dim and gray.

10/04/2025

NEW FROM CRUCIAL BLAST!

Coming Friday Oct 31st - available for pre-order now:

VRVLVM / DEMONOLOGISTS split CASSETTE / DIGITAL

https://crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/vrvlvm-demonologists

ATHAME All Is Vanity CASSETTE / DIGITAL

https://crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/all-is-vanity

VRVLVM / DEMONOLOGISTS split:
A full-length album pairing the arcane horror electronics / death-drone of Vrvlvm with the pummeling black industrial and infectious infernal Skinny Puppy-esque rhythms of Demonologists. A perfect pairing of two distinct voices within the necro-electronics / black industrial spectrum.

ATHAME All Is Vanity :
A new lengthy three-song EP of deformed black metal, All Is Vanity is an evolutionary marker from this USBM trio, now well over a decade into their narco-fueled demonic warpath. Creeping deeper into more caustic depths of debasement and ecstatic violence;tThe songs reveal a dissonant abrasion that feels informed by the chaos of Chimera / Grand Declaration of War-era Mayhem, almost Voivodian guitar chords, and heavier traces of electronic noise and ritualistic drone pollution.

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CRUCIALBLAST.NET
CRUCIALBLAST.BANDCAMP.COM

https://linktr.ee/crucial_blast

10/01/2025

Hey folks! CRUCIAL BLAST will have a huge booth at VOIDCON 3 in Gettysburg, PA on Oct 10th -11th ! Tons of records/cds/tapes/books/zines/rare horror + occult paperbacks/shirts/dvd/blu/vhs, and MUCH more from the deepest corners of the extreme and experimental music underground!

A DEFIANT CELEBRATION OF OUTSIDER ART

** FREE ADMISSION **

THE BEST IN INDIE HORROR / EXTREME LITERATURE AND ART

BOOK FAIR, LIVE READINGS, PANEL DISCUSSIONS, AND MORE!

BASIC REGISTRATION for VOIDCON 3 is free and includes a program, access to the book fair, panels, and readings.

ALSO AVAILABLE: VIP PACKAGE with swag bag, + access to special events and after-show!

MORE INFO:
VOIDCON.WORDPRESS.COM/

INSTAGRAM.COM/VOIDCON3

X.COM/VOIDCON2025

The Lurking Transmission

08/09/2025

Hey Western MD area folks: CRUCIAL BLAST will be set up tomorrow at the VINTAGE EXPO: TOY & TAPE SHOW in Hagerstown,MD (event info below)....since this event focuses on vintage toys, VHS, books, games, and collectibles, the CRUCIAL BLAST stall will only feature rare horror paperbacks, obscure fanzines, unusual books, some OOP boxsets, rare VHS tapes / DVD / Blu, and other odds and ends....I won't have the usual massive music spread (LP/CD/CS, etc) tomorrow, but come out if you want to hang and check out some of the weirder stuff on my shelves.

TOMORROW - SUNDAY AUGUST 10TH
12pm-4pm
Wacohu Grange 16412 National Pike, Hagerstown, MD

I will be back with the usual giant music stall for the HORRORWEEN EXPO 2025 on Sunday October 12th, though !!!

HOSTED BY:
Captain Adam’s VHS Pirate Ship

https://www.facebook.com/events/620184910376954

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07/17/2025

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07/05/2025

Are you reading the ANTIMATTER HALO Substack newsletter? If yer like me and obsessed with the stranger edges of underground music/art, you probably should be. It's great, and I'm always discovering new heavy weirdness thru MZ's writing.
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The latest ish dredged up the older Crucial Blast / Crucial Blaze pro-3xCDR set from LIGHT, which MZ described as "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. "

Very well put. If that sounds like your kind of crumbling, dreamy subterranean crush, I still have a handful of this gorgeous, grimy release in stock over here:
https://crucialblastshop.net/album.php?ID=5550
and you can listen over here:
https://crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/light

7 track album

07/04/2025

Here's a dig-through of the deep back catalog from the mighty Malignant Records that I have in stock. This label established itself as one of THE top purveyors of dark ambient, black industrial / death industrial, ritual drift, and occult electronics here in the US, and I've got a large selection of Malignant's catalog (including many out-of-print titles) in stock here in the CRUCIAL BLAST SHOP. I'll be doing an in-depth label overview soon on the CRUCIAL BLAST Youtube channel, but in the meantime you can check out this dig-thru of the many amazing Malignant (and side-label Black Plagve) releases I have in stock. Get your hands on this stuff either at the WWW.CRUCIALBLASTSHOP.NET webstore, or at the CRUCIAL BLAST DISCOGS STORE at https://www.discogs.com/seller/Crucial_Blast/profile .
Thank you to all of you that order from the CRUCIAL BLAST SHOP, you keep this operation going and allow me to release and stock even more strange sounds and art!

MUSIC: "Aether" from the ABATTOIR & SATORI collaboration album "Aether" (Malignant Records) - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!!

07/01/2025

PAST BLAST:
NEKRASOV's 2011 2xCD set "The Ever-Present" diverged from the Australian black metal/industrial artist's usual black/noise/metal mutation, for a jet-black harsh noise epic. Spread across two full-length discs, this is closer in texture and attack to the likes of VOMIR or DEAD BODY LOVE. Massive maelstroms of churning, crushing static and ultra-distorted electronic overload.

The two discs are packaged inside of the clear dvd-style case like all Crucial Blaze titles, and include a sticker, 1" pin, and a twenty-eight page zine filled with black and white collage art, with murky, inky visions of all-devouring blackness, carcinogenic landscapes, cathedral-like tumor masses, amoebic growths, and Watchers from behind the shadows. Hand-numbered and limited to two hundred copies.

EXTREMELY LIMITED COPIES LEFT.

GET: https://crucialblastshop.net/album.php?ID=5552
HEAR: https://crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/the-ever-present