PipemanRadio Interviews HOWLING GIANT About Crucible & Ruin

PipemanRadio talks with Sebastian Baltes of Howling Giant  

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"Crucible & Ruin" that this is the band's first album to be entirely recorded in a proper studio setting as opposed to their home studio,  

This is the band's first album to feature new fourth member Adrian Lee Zambrano.  

"Crucible & Ruin" is available as an olive green vinyl LP, a cream white vinyl LP, a marbled transparent petrol green & black vinyl LP, a marbled blue cassette, and a Digisleeve CD.  

Band: Howling Giant
Album title: Crucible & Ruin
Style: Stoner Metal
Release date: October 31, 2025
Label: Magnetic Eye Records
Review impact date: October 1, 2025  

HOWLING GIANT hail from Nashville, Tennessee, USA, sidestepping the self-proclaimed Music City's assembly line of modern pop country while taking inspiration from the brilliant songwriters and virtuoso session players that keep the town's musical legacy burning bright. Fertile ground for a preeminent fuzz-psych power trio, now turned quartet, who consciously live in the pocket of that lineage!  

Following a trilogy of EPs, "Howling Giant" (2015), "Black Hole Space Wizard: Part 1" (2016), and "Black Hole Space Wizard: Part 2" (2017), HOWLING GIANT struck a chord with critics and fans on their debut full-length "The Space between Worlds" in 2019. "Glass Future" proved a gargantuan leap for the band that now featured Sebastian Baltes, son of legendary ACCEPT bass master Peter Baltes. Released in 2023, "Glass Future" brought their outstanding musicianship and triple vocal attack fully into stride.  

HOWLING GIANT storm forward once more in defiant refusal to remain still. Having grown into a four-piece as well as in their prowess as musicians and songwriters, "Crucible & Ruin" is an album at least as big as their name. Don't take our word for it, just give it a spin – or two or three...’  

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