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Successfully creating a personal sound, Of Blood and Mercury is a project that infuses you in the most hidden inner places. They recently staged, exclusively for Roadburn, a breathtaking material called “The Other Side of Death”. By mixing deep lyrics and dark musical themes, they’ve produced an album worth keeping. […]
WOLVENNEST was started in 2013 by Kirby Michel, Corvus Von Burtle, and Marc De Backer. It proposes a compositional process of guitar loops, repetitive beats, synthesizers keys mixed to darkened hypnotic ambient vocal sounds. April 2019 saw WOLVENNEST performing the album “Void” live in its entirety for a unique show […]
Lycia is an American darkwave band formed in 1988 in Tempe, Arizona. The main personnel of the band is Mike VanPortfleet, Tara VanFlower, and David Galas. Devoted to cold, somber, and synthetic sounds, these pioneers of the ethereal are responsible for some of the most acclaimed underground albums of the ‘90s. We talked to Tara VanFlower about their newest material, […]
Menton J. Matthews III is an American painter, illustrator, and comic book artist currently living in Atlanta. Matthews is also a multi-instrumentalist who can play a number of diverse instruments such as cello, viola, violin, guitar, drums, piano, and bass. CVLT: Hello, Menton! Let’s start with the beginning! What first got you […]
German post-punk finest Bleib Modern play one of the most impressive modern take-ups of the 80’s gloomy melodic coldwave with leading throbbing basslines, mechanical drumming, reverbed, and razor-sharp guitar riffs, emotionless and visceral vocals. Tell us a bit about the history of when did Bleib Modern start? Well, in 2014, […]
From basements in his hometown of Budapest to all corners of Europe, stages small and big, THE DEVIL’S TRADE has been relentlessly walking on his pathfinding his voice and calling, and that is to let listeners glimpse into himself through his heart wrenching songs. Hello! First of all, thank you […]
Can you hear the sound of spring already? Just imagine yourself on a field full of peonies… Can you smell them? This is the vibe MOTORAMA gives me with their new album. ‘Up’ is definitely my favorite song of the album I shared with you a couple of the lyrics: […]
With a distinct sound that has continuously developed over the years, The Underground Youth has crossed from their unique brand of darkly cinematic psychedelia to a raw and blister style of post-punk. With their new album ‘The Falling’ coming out, we wanted to find out more about their inspiration or […]
William Maybelline and Larissa Iceglass are here to make 2021 better. The Swiss-British band recently released their newest album ‘Sci-Fi Sky‘, and with that occasion, we managed to correspond with William about their album, nostalgia, and the vision on music. In a previous review, I wrote that ‘Lebanon Hanover is all about coldness, […]
After the quick end of Linea Aspera, Alison Lewis turned to her label Fleisch Records, the solo project Zanias and Keluar, a cooperation with Sid Lamar (Schwefelgelb). In 2019, it finally came back and it was for sure unexpected. The band take a cue from the Cold Wave mood. Dissatisfied, […]