Crucial Blast

07/17/2025

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07/05/2025

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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 !!!

07/03/2025

A taste of new and pulverizing Cultic to come !!!!

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

06/28/2025

Cultic ! Philly ! DEVASTATION !

Philly friends! Get your one way ticket to midnight tomorrow. Extinction A.D. added.

06/18/2025

06/07/2025

19 years ago on this date (06/06/06), Crucial Blast released GENGHIS TRON's debut full-length album "Dead Mountain Mouth". It remains one of the most unique albums of the 2000s, combining electronica, extreme metal, grindcore, chaotic HC, and experimental sound. Nothing has ever sounded quite like it.

GET IT: https://crucialblastshop.net/album.php?ID=1875

06/06/2025

COMING SOON FROM CRUCIAL BLAST: PSYWARFARE "LIVE QUEENS NYC 2025" Limited edition CASSETTE / ZINE / POSTER SET. Featuring Dwid Hellion (INTEGRITY) and the infamous WASP terrorist Hombre, this is a full and exhaustive document of the band's FEROCIOUS New York City show, complete with full-color photozine and a poster reproduction of the show flyer from PSYWARFARE's hyper-aggro sonic obliteration.

More info coming soon.

The band is on tour this month (June 2025) - do yourself a favor and receive the beating:

06/05/2025

If you're in the Hagerstown, MD region, don't forget to come out to the next VHS EXPO event this Sunday, June 8 !

CRUCIAL BLAST will have my typical huge stall of underground metal / punk / industrial / electronic weirdness on vinyl / cd / cassette, VHS tapes, Bhudda Boxes, weirdo horror movies, strange and fascinating books / zines from the underground, and LOTS more!

See you there!

https://www.facebook.com/events/537571742307533?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[]%7D

For anyone in the Maryland US area!
VHS Expo 2025: Physical Media Market

It’s a physical media mega mart and a vintage market beyond belief! The best place to find VHS, Betamax, laserdiscs, DVDs, vinyl records, audio cassettes, CDs, rare books, and old school video games! A physical media collector’s haven, featuring a wide selection of horror, wrestling, and just plain weird VHS! Plus, tons of records, tapes, and CDs of underground metal and avant garde music you won’t find anywhere else! Not to mention all of the horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and strange books that will be on sale! Also, plenty of retro video games to appease any collector! A literal litany of rare physical media gems all in one place! Free admission! All ages!