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

Wiegedood and Dawn Ray’d at The Louisiana Bristol Text & Photos: Abi Coulson//Darktones Photography  Featuring members of OATHBREAKER and AMENRA but with a much coarser epically blackened sound is another facet of the Church of Ra collective Belgian trio WIEGEDOOD. Admittedly I was not overly familiar with this band although had

Earlier this year, Dawn Ray’d released the critically acclaimed The Unlawful Assembly on Prosthetic Records and since then they’ve taken their incredible live show on the road and been making quite the name for themselves in the process. In a time that is seeing a distressing rise of right wing

ROADBURN FESTIVAL 19th – 22nd April 2018 Tilburg, Netherlands By Kris T. Therrian – FB / Instagram Already months before the festival start, the hype was oh so real. Announcements about new venues, specially commissioned pieces, mindblowing collaborations, exhibitions, panel talks and listening sessions, kept rolling in and not least the announcements about

Dawn Ray’d’s last LP The Unlawful Assembly is beyond stellar on the musical tip, but on the lyrical tip it’s like no other Black Metal album created last year! CVLT Nation salutes this band for taking a stand against oppression when others do not. I asked them to curate a Mixtape

The latest LP from Dawn Ray’d, The Unlawful Assembly (out now on Prosthetic Records Halo of Flies Records Feast of Tentacles), kicks fucking ass and I love the way that it blends the sounds of the new world with the sounds of the old world. It is also freaking awesome seeing a band take