About two years ago, I was staying at Sean Reveron’s house in Venice. As per tradition, I would raid his tape collection while fielding a thunder barrage of questions, when I grabbed a duo-toned cover. How did a long-lost Rough Trade cassette end up in Sean’s metal and punk collection?

CVLT Nation would like to give an extra HUGE shout out to Countdown to Armageddon, USNEA, NIGHT NURSE, DRUDEN, BLACK LODGE, ALAN HUNTER and everyone how came out to our Seattle 3rd anniversary on April 19th. All of the bands gave stellar performances! The amount of love that I felt

Right here and now, you are about to hear two of the sickest young black metal bands creating sonic hate! Mannveira hails from Iceland and Serpent Lair hails from Denmark. With each of these releases, what will strike you first and foremost is how both bands sound so fucking amazing!!!

Pissing on the graves of all of the dead popes, SON OF MAN comes out blazing on their soon to be released 7 inch entitled Burn The Witch via King Of The Monsters. From what I can hear, these dude must have drunk gallons of demonic nitro, because all I

Holy Christ! Ornamental Headpiece sounds like an odd name for a black metal band, but if you listen to good music, I mean good extreme metal, Ornamental Headpiece should be a household name! Doubt if the band likes the idea, though. But man, Ornamental Headpiece’s punk-meets-black metal absolutely rocks my

UK black metal has always been seen as some kind of lesser son to that of its Norwegian counterparts, through no fault of the makers of course, but when the one name to touch upon is Cradle of Filth then most new bands have to go a long to prove