Crucible began in June 1997. A group of friends jamming hardcore and heavy metal in the garage after surfing the south shores on the island of Oahu, in the Hawaiian island chain. Perseverance prevailed and after heavy gigging in Honolulu and Waikiki, Crucible went into the studio to record their first album UNSHATTERED which has since become a cult classic. Mixing retro skate metal such as Corrosion of Conformity, Aggression, Minor Threat and Dr. Know with more modern metal crushers such as Pantera, Crowbar, Black Sabbath and Sepultura, Crucible forged its own sound from the molten calderas of Hawaii's perpetual volcanoes.

After the release of UNSHATTERED in 1998, Crucible embarked on their World Meltdown Tour in 1999. A six week, 15 country tour through the unforgiving blizzards of Europe in the months of February and March, which also included playing the 3 countries of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in 3 days. The tour was self financed and was very well received by the fans and media.

Once Crucible returned home from the European tour in 1999, they realized that they should try to promote bands to come out to Hawaii since no one, not even Goldenvoice was promoting Metal Bands anymore. Hence, the metal concert series Havoc in Hawaii was born. Crucible brought out Skinlab (SF) and Pissing Razors (El Paso) for the first Havoc in Hawaii show in December 1999. Then in March 2000, Havoc in Hawaii 2 featured Crowbar (New Orleans), and then finally Havoc in Hawaii 3 in December 2001 featuring thrash legends Testament from the bay area of California. Crucible also performed at these shows along with local thrash legends Broken Man.

After promoting the Havoc in Hawaii concert series, Crucible brought out producer, Keith Falgout from New Orleans to help out with the 2nd album SOULS WORN THIN. Featuring anthem like riffs, and a wall of guitars, Souls Worn Thin shattered the myth of the sophomore slump and reigned triumphant as a showing of progress and maturity. Some tight thrash mixed with some unusual rhythms, but what really stands out is the almost doom-like riffing on the title track, as well as the poignant requiem of "Isolation" featuring Keith Falgout on the grand piano.

Still performing on a regular basis, Crucible has just released their 3rd record "Scars of the Hardened". The Cd release party featured Crucible and Killswitch Engage and we will be jamming with Hatebreed real soon. After 10 years, we are still holding our own solidly and would like to thank all of those who have helped along the way:
GHS Strings, ESP Guitars, Dunlop Picks, Randall Amps, Dirtbag USA and Da Hui North America.

CRUCIBLE is:
MIKE CHING - vocals
DEREK HADERMAN - guitars
JASON CUEVA - drums
ERIC DAGUIO - bass

Contact Derek - Email: crucible@crucibleworldforce.com