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STONE CAVALLI is a rush of rock and roll full of energy and no-nonsense. Drums, guitar, and keyboards create a mix that flirts with punk and new wave. The Tarricone brothers deliver a sound that is both arid and violent. Electro sounds clash with the more organic sounds of their instruments. STONE CAVALLI underlines […]
Pittsburgh’s high-energy punk rockers T-TOPS have released the butt-kicking first single ‘Burn the River’ taken from their forthcoming sophomore full-length “Staring at a Static Screen”, which will hit stores hard on May 28. T-TOPS comment: “Musically, ‘Burn the River’ exemplifies the thrust of what we’re going for”, points out frontman Patrick Waters. “There is no big, boring lead-in. This […]
Built in the crystalline shadows and existential backwaters of the psyche, Dez Dare constructs psych-hymns, soft-punk, that punches you in the brain while tenderly calling you to inaction. No other time calls for expression more than times of suppression. Trapped, caught in reclusion under the germs’ eye, Darren Smallman (Battle Worldwide, Low […]
Duo machines/vox + drum oriented industrial, techno, hardcore, cinematic atmosphere, tribal or experimental sounds. Since its beginnings, Moaan Exis explores genres, integrates them, in fact something that someone can not define so easily. A sound object burning melancholy with the violence of a catastrophe. There is little respite, yet so much urgency […]
NOPES have premiered the pulsating new track ‘Under the Leather’, which is taken from the US noise punks’ forthcoming album “Djörk”, which is slated for release on January 29. “This track was written about experiences with people who act like they have something to prove”, relates vocalist Alex Petralia about ‘Under the […]
At the beginning of 2018 singer Inga Nelke alongside two guitarists, Thorsten Dohle & Felix Will meet at a dark cave in Cologne Germany. Impressed by the caves reverb, accompanied by a drum machine, they rather accidentally create a sound that sits somewhere between shoegaze, psychedelic, and krautrock, while breathing the DIY spirit of a punk […]
Trier-based photographer, Edouard Olszewski is always eager to share his passion for contemporary photography. His focus is on portraits, advertisement, fashion, and lifestyle photography. Contemporary photography is a difficult term to define. It does not permanently adhere as a label on anyone’s image. It is a concept that changes as […]
Barren Womb might be the hardest working band in the Norwegian underground, touring relentlessly, and offering a slew of releases since their inception in 2011. They are complete masters of their craft, capturing their raw and unpolished live energy in studio recordings. CVLT: We know that music is a form of […]
Cultdreams are a post-punk band at the very base, purging 90’s washes of guitars, nursing simple and catchy shoegazy melodic choruses, while drowning in reverb every note of their riffs on ‘Things That Hurt’, an emotionally logic triggering record. This is going to be messy and dirty, and who does […]
Named after a local city district, Mustasuo, which roughly translates as “black swamp” is young trio from Oulu, northern Finland formed by Antti Saarilampi (guitar/vocals), Tomi Luimula (drums) and Christopher Livingstone (bass/vocals). Their music is a diverse mix of extreme punk and crust and a wide variety of metal styles, […]