We get super excited about demos every year because they’re a taste of what a new band has to offer! So here are some of the most special demos we heard this year…   TEN – Mephitic Corpse, Immense Thickening Vomit Mephitic Corpse‘s Immense Thickening Vomit record is straight fucking foul old

Now we’re into the meat of what drives CVLT Nation – post-punk is one of our staple genres; it inspired our radio show Dark Waves and it gets us out of the house whenever there’s a show. The revival is real and it’s carrying this genre into the 2020’s on

via Nowness In 1982, the original Goth club opened in London’s SoHo, organized by members of the dark and glamorous Specimen, and they called it The Batcave. The club was attended by nearly every post-punk musician in the country at the time, including Robert Smith of The Cure, members of Siouxsie

One punk band in the early 80’s that moved to the beat of their own madness was True Sounds of Liberty, aka T.S.O.L.. This Southern California band was on some next level shit from the time they first started, and they only broke more rules as they went along. As

If you’re an avid reader of CvltNation, you might have been following LA’s The Wraith for a few years now. 2017 saw the release of their first EP Shadow Flag and since then, vocalist Davey Bales has released a few chap books of poetry. After grinding away at songwriting, finding

For the past two years, HOME SICK Festival has been curating a night of punishing sonics and beautiful melodies. For its third incarnation, the fest is happening over two nights and in two cities – Pomona, CA on January 17, 2020 at The Glasshouse (Tickets) and Berkeley, CA on January 18, 2020 at UC Theatre (Tickets). The lineups are fire,