In the midst of all our top 6 lists, we are featured on someone’s top list! Dan at Unhallowed Nation Magazine put CVLT Nation on his top 5 most influential metal blogs of 2011. Big thanks to Dan for the support! Read the feature below and check out Unhallowed Nation…
DM-How did the site start?
M&S-CVLT Nation started as a clothing company, because we respect so many illustrators in the metal community and wanted to find a way to work with them. The site was initially supposed to be a webzine that was a backdrop for the clothing, so that fans of the clothing would have something cool to check out when they came to our site, but somehow it worked the other way around! We are both huge fans of the music, the art and the aesthetic of the so-called “dark” genres, and CVLT Nation became this awesome outlet for us to post about everything that fascinates us.
DM-When did you first realize you were making an impact upon the metal community?
M&S-I guess when we started getting in touch with the bands and artists we were covering. We kept getting so much positive feedback from them, and so much support in terms of interviews, mixtapes etc. it made us realize that we were doing something that people appreciated. We have gotten a lot of great emails and comments from our readers too, people saying that they have found out about new bands or artists through our site. It’s pretty awesome!
DM-Where did the title CVLT Nation come from?
M&S-Who knows! We came up with it together, Meghan said “cvlt” and Sean said “nation” and it stuck. It makes sense in a way, because we really want the site to be a platform for creative people, and to bring the sometimes disparate metal and punk communities together. We wanted to bring in contributors from all over the world, and cover stuff that’s going on in Europe, Asia, Aus/NZ, and we have gotten some stellar people from around the country and the world to write for the zine. Also, for our first season of clothing, our designs we done by artists from Chile, Japan, Brazil and the US, and it made us realize just how connected we all are through metal. United we can’t be defeated.
DM-What’s been the most rewarding experience about running the site?
M&S-Definitely it has been connecting with people from all over the world; bands, artists, writers, readers. There is so much creativity happening in even the smallest of places, and we have met so many friends through the site, so many rad people!
DM-What were some of your biggest influences growing up?
M&S-For me (Meghan), in my early teens bands like Sabbath and Zepplin were my gateways to heavy music. I am more into the doom, psych-rock, jammy metal – songs that go on for like 20 minutes. I cover the art for CVLT Nation, but of course I have been exposed to all kinds of amazing music through the site. For Sean, his roots are deep in Venice punk rock and hardcore, he was going to Black Flag and Suicidal shows in LA in the early 80s, lived with members of Crucifix in SF, and is basically an OG punker. He’s been into all kinds of heavy music for the past 30 years, and it’s mainly his wealth of music knowledge and experience that makes CVLT Nation what it is.
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