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High Noon Kahuna 'This Place Is Haunted' Artwork
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Review: High Noon Kahuna ‘This Place Is Haunted’

3rd June 20243rd June 2024 Reza Mills Crucial Blast Records, High Noon Kahuna, Noise-Rock

High Noon Kahuna are Tim Otis – guitar/screams, Brian Goad – drums and Paul Cogle on bass/vocals and their prior

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Gnaw Their Tongues 'Abyss Of Longing Throats'
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Gnaw Their Tongues ‘Abyss Of Longing Throats’ CD/DD 2015

5th January 20161st November 2019 Jorge Miguel 2015, Abyss Of Longing Throats, Black Metal, CD, Crucial Blast Records, Digital, Drone, Experimental, Gnaw Their Tongues, Jorge Miguel, Mories, Noise, Review

Having seen Gnaw Their Tongues live this past October, I can honestly say that we’re talking about one of the

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GNAW THEIR TONGUES Confirms First US Live Performance; Comp Track ‘Slaves’ Now Streaming

19th December 2014 Lee Edwards Audio Stream, California Deathfest, Collected Atrocities 2005-2008, Crucial Blast Records, Gnaw Their Tongues, Mories, News, Slaves, Sound Colour Vibration

As Crucial Blast prepares to release the mammoth Collected Atrocities 2005-2008 compilation of early works from The Netherlands’ horrific industrial/doom entity,

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GNAW THEIR TONGUES: Crucial Blast Confirms Multiple 2015 Titles From Dutch Black/Doom Entity

31st October 2014 Lee Edwards Audio Stream, Collected Atrocities 2005-2008, Crucial Blast Records, Glorification Of Rats, Gnaw Their Tongues, Mories, New Compilation Details

Maryland-based purveyors of sonic annihilation, Crucial Blast, proclaims that multiple titles from The Netherlands’ most terrifying musical entity, GNAW THEIR

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CLOAK OF ALTERING: Full Plague Beasts Album Streaming; Newest Chaos From Mories Out Now On Crucial Blast

2nd May 2014 Lee Edwards Audio Stream, Cloak Of Altering, Crucial Blast Records, Mories, New Album Details, News, Plague Beasts

Plague Beasts, the third full-length torture session from CLOAK OF ALTERING, is out now on Crucial Blast. One of the

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Crucial Blast Set To Release New EHNAHRE Album ‘Old Earth’ In September; Stream Now Available

24th July 2012 Lee Edwards Audio Stream, Crucial Blast Records, Ehnahre, New Album Details, News, Old Earth

Crucial Blast will release the new full-length album ‘Old Earth‘ from avant-garde death/doom/prog trio EHNAHRE on September 10th, 2012. The

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FUNERARY CALL ‘Fragments From The Aethyr’ Now Streaming In Full Via Crucial Blast

21st June 2012 Lee Edwards Audio Stream, Crucial Blast Records, Fragments From The Aethyr, Funerary Call, New Album Details, News

‘Fragments From The Aethyr’ is the latest album from notable Vancouver-based black ambient/experimental black metal trogolodyte FUNERARY CALL, who has

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CRUCIAL BLAST Release ‘Heresies: 2012’ Free Digital Sampler

1st May 2012 Lee Edwards Compilation, Crucial Blast Records, Free Digital Sampler, Heresies: 2012, News

Crucial Blast is proud to present Heresies, our newest compilation of sound taken from a wide selection of our current

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Aelter ‘Dusk Dawn/Follow You Beloved’ 2xCD 2011

30th January 20123rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Aelter, Atmospheric, Blake Green, CD, Crucial Blast Records, Doom, Drone, Dusk Dawn/Follow You Beloved, Heavy, Paul Robertson, Psychedelic, Review, Wolvserpent

Just as Conan broods upon his throne in Aquilonia, so it is that Wolvserpent’s Blake Green broods in his studio,

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Gnaw Their Tongues ‘Per Flagellum Sanguemque Tenebras Veneramus’ CD 2011

22nd January 20123rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Atmospheric, CD, Crucial Blast Records, Doom, Drone, Experimental, Gnaw Their Tongues, Paul Robertson, Per Flagellum Sanguemque Tenebras Veneramus, Review

Lock your doors. Bar your windows. Seal yourself inside your home. Call the police. It won’t save you, Gnaw Their

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AELTER: Dusk Dawn / Follow You Beloved DIGIPACK 2xCD + Full Audio Stream

3rd December 2011 Lee Edwards Aelter, Blake Green, CD, Crucial Blast Records, Dusk Dawn, Follow You Beloved, New Album Details, News, Wolvserpent

One of several side-projects to emerge from the Wolvserpent camp, AELTER is the solo effort of Wolvserpent guitarist Blake Green.

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Video Premiere: Alunah ‘La Pucelle’ – From New Split With Samavayo, Out 5th June
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Video Premiere: Alunah ‘La Pucelle’ – From New Split With Samavayo, Out 5th June

23rd April 202623rd April 2026 Lee Edwards

Today, The Shaman is pleased to premiere La Pucelle, the new video from Birmingham heavy rockers Alunah. Taken from their

Video Premiere: TESA – Second Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Marks Today’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’
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Video Premiere: TESA – Second Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Marks Today’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’

3rd April 20263rd April 2026 Lee Edwards
Video Premiere: TESA – Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Ahead Of This Friday’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’
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Video Premiere: TESA – Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Ahead Of This Friday’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’

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Video Premiere: Desert Storm ‘Law Unto Myself’ – Taken From New Album That Drops 6th March
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Video Premiere: Desert Storm ‘Law Unto Myself’ – Taken From New Album That Drops 6th March

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