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What time is it? It’s time for the Huge dark waves of V’s “So Pure” to wash over you! Unholy hell, this artist will...
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What time is it? It’s time for the Huge dark waves of V’s “So Pure” to wash over you! Unholy hell, this artist will...
I need strange music for these strange times, and lucky for me I get a lot of it crossing my desk! How about wailing...
Give me 8 minutes of your life so that I can share the new visual from Cold In Berlin called “Sacred Ground.” Their new...
Astari Nite makes music for folks who see the beautiful little death in everything living. Their music seems to swirl around my head like...
Fucking social distancing means we can’t see Grave Babies live at VERBODEN this year, but we do get to share a brand new single...
by Oliver Sheppard Blue Cross began as a side-poject of Ottawa, Ontario’s Germ Attak. While Germ Attak played loud, brash, hard-drinking punk rock and...
The S-Haters were a British dark punk band that existed from about 1976 until 1985. They played — well in advance of the trend...
(Note: This interview first appeared at the No Doves Fly Here site a few months ago.) The Bay Area’s Alaric have received positive attention...
What would it sound like if Killing Joke and Motorhead had collaborated in 1982? You know, when Killing Joke were working on their apocalyptic,...
Vancouver, British Columbia’s Spectres released one of the finest LPs of 2010, Last Days. “[T]he dark side of 80’s anarcho punk and the coldness...
Last year, the late Kenn Kroosaficks reviewed Deathcharge’s debut LP, Love Was Born to an Early Death, here at CVLT Nation. “Deathcharge unleashes a...
Deathrock never died, but it would be willfully ignorant to claim there isn’t new blood currently reinvigorating the genre. The recent uptick in the...
Simultaneously occupying the spaces of hardcore punk and deathrock while dishing out a consistent barrage of their own schizoid take on punk, Long Beach,...
Seattle’s Grave Babies make a very atmospheric, low-fi form of melancholy postpunk. The band operates somewhere in the musical space that groups like the...
On May 15th, a very special record is coming out via Handmade Birds, and the name of the band is PINKISH BLACK. To read...