I fucking love the Bay Area. There is a truly amazing amount of artists that live out here. For the music that I am interested in the most, this area is the best in the world. There is some great scenes scattered around the globe, but within this particular area

Alright, I’m still recovering from Bloodshed festival over the weekend of 14 and 15 September in Eindhoven’s Effenaar. Calling the festival’s line-up rich is an understatement which doesn’t only apply to the main festival days of Friday the 14th and Saturday the 15th, but Thursday’s pre-party and Sunday’s Afterbleeder bands

Poland’s Unquiet Records is proud to bring you a pummelling slab of dark and apocalyptic eastern European crust – as they join forces with equally Polish dark punk-metal warriors The Throne to release their upcoming new album Frail Threads . Featuring words in their native language and vast and desolate atmospheres encased within

Do you want to hear something truly unique and unlike anything else ? Then look no further: mysterious Italian darkwave/doom-crust band Buioingola has returned with a brand new album to be released next month, and today CVLT Nation is honored to give you a little taste of the immense personality and uniqueness of

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 – HOWLS OF EBB Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows This recluse but extremely prolific San Francisco progressive black/death duo has returned once again with what is their third full-length album in three years: a mind-fucking downward spiral into the most surreal pits of musical madness. Blending the thechnicality and brutal artistry of