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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. […]
CVLTARTES proudly premieres Pyrame‘s new video to the track entitled ‘Drifting off the Grid’, which is the third single of Pyrame´s EP ‘The Pace of Everything that Lives‘ released on Thisbe Recordings. Pyrame is a Swiss artist and cosmic poet currently living in Berlin and is the man behind Thisbe […]
Bebi Monsuta are two rockstars from New York City. Together, the sisters marry their Caribbean, Japanese, and Portuguese-Brazilian roots into their self-written music and bold visuals. We talked to Manami and Akira about their newest single, “808”, love, goals, and many more in a short, but challenging, interview. CVLT: How would […]
Influenced mostly by the hate, poverty, spite, corruption, and indifference of society, Avoid Humanity, as they said, is a representation of 5 introverts that want to play their music to the masses. Ironic, isn’t it? We talked to them about two of their most unconventional live performances and many more […]
After the release of ‘Coming of Agency’, Sofia Zadar has now surprised us with an even greater song, ‘Queen of Cups’. The faded vocals and gliding instrumentals make for this dream-pop story to carry you between the states of nostalgia and calmness. It seems like there is no other Romanian […]
Zurich, 1994. Along the banks of the Limmat river, on the railway tracks of the disused Letten station, the largest open drugs scene in Europe is in its last year. Federal Councillor Ruth Dreifuss visits the site and meets addicts who lie on the ground, injecting themselves with heroin. From […]
Anika a.k.a Annika Henderson (D/GB), born 1987 in Woking England, is a hybrid artist. The former journalist made a name for herself in the electronic music scene, with her experimental sound collages, confrontational texts, and unique way of performing live solo. Her breakthrough came in 2010 with the release of […]
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, […]
Monolith sub-frequencies intended to lift the listener to a higher level of consciousness, a state of trance and hypnosis. Bong-Ra mixes doom metal, free-jazz, and electronics in a completely new unique crossover heavily inspired by ancient and pre-dynastic civilizations. His personal philosophy and research into transcendency, the esoteric and existentialism […]
For 25 years, IMPURE WILHELMINA has been creating singular music on the borders of rock and metal. The Geneva quartet has never been afraid to reinvent itself and to push back the stylistic barriers, without ever losing its strong identity. Intensity, melody, power, and melancholy are the keywords that guide the band’s […]