Blink and you’ll miss it, but Hassan Amin recently appeared in a cover story on the mighty Converge.  In the pages of the print scene stalwart Decibel, he spoke eloquently of the band’s legacy and impact. What caught me, however, was how he spoke of alienation, of chaos, of suffocating

A live review of Cemetery Piss, Corpse Light and Och live @ Asian Taste in Baltimore Mere days after the mid-70’s had us daydreaming about the impending blackening pall of Maryland Deathfest, mid March found us locked into the jaws of an appropriately timed permafrost. Into the fray… Backlit by little

Here are some 2016 releases that are too unpopular (AKA cool) to have made any year end lists, but which deserve every ounce of attention and love they can get. This is criminally overlooked stuff that everyone should get into right now. Read this as a best of 2016 list for

SIX – PHOBONOID S/t No newbie to CVLT Nation, you may already know about the one man space-worshiping industrial blackened doom metal project PHOBONOID – a project birthed and masterminded solely within the mind and imagination of Lord Phobos, a lone soul hailing from the Italian Alps, who creates cosmos-obsessed glacial and tormented industrial black

Siberian Hell Sounds are an enigmatic and devastating blackened hardcore punk band hailing from the cast away lands of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. After a period of silence, the band has now resurfaced with a new EP called Svengali – a skin-peeling and face-ripping exercise in sonic cruelty that will leave the listener

Remember Tutti I Colori Del Buio? The Italian blackened hardcore bruisers released a pulverizing debut demo in 2013 which blew our minds. Fast forward to the present, and that omen has become a frightening reality, as the band prepares to drop their dream-shattering debut full length album titled Initiation Into