Text Luke Bolton // Photos Gemma Shaw Fleshpress are dark, complex and atmospheric. With fingers in many musical pies, their sound touches on doom, psych, black metal and even a touch of hardcore (think more angular noise core).     Conan are like cream, they have risen to the top. The bellowing low

It’s another year, which means another round of amazing festivals dedicated to the love of all things dark and heavy! One of the UK’s greatest and most crushing underground musical events has just been announced, and we’ve got Desertfest tickets for you! DESERTFEST 2016 has a seriously stacked lineup for

Text and Photos: Colton Bills / Marrow Photography I had been waiting for three months for this show. When the day finally came, with it with came Portland doom crew Shrine of The Serpent, local doom troupe Haggatha, along with Portland’s own funeral-doom bringers Usnea, New York’s Unearthly Trance and underground

Last week, we did a feature about our comrade Ryan Avery and his Midnite Communion fest, that recently featured live performances by Morne, Unearthly Trance, Buried at Sea, Dopethrone and CHRCH, along with Funerary, Trapped Within Burning Machinery, TEETH and Brainoil. Now it’s time share with you all of this insane footage that

I know this dude in SoCal named Ryan Avery, and over the past five years I have seen him dedicate himself to all things HEAVY! Not only has he promoted the best Doom shows in SoCal for the past 4 years under the name Midnite Collective, Ryan is also the

So the big question, which I might as well get out of the way, is this; What prompted you guys to re-unite yet again under the Unearthly Trance banner? Had there been a bit of discussion for awhile about it or was it more a simple realization that you three

This release is a retrospective and present compilation all of Unearthly Trance‘s unreleased seven inch splits and ten inch vinyl EP’s since their first release on Southern Lord in 2001, beginning with the most current and working it’s way back. It is so good to hear the progression of their

The Howling Wind band/project is made up of Ryan Lipynsky and Tim Call, both whom are very seasoned musicians, Ryan with Unearthly Trance, Serpentine Path and Humanless and Tim with Aldebaran and Mournful Congregation. ‘Vortex‘ is their fourth album and the first away from Profound Lore Records. Here they are

Some HEAVY shit has been taking place in NYC lately, like BELL WITCH, UNEARTHLY TRANCE and SAMOTHRACE all performing recently! We decided to bring together all of the footage we could find filmed by PITFULLOFSHIT & unARTigNYC…so get DOOMED you bastards! BELL WITCH DATES! June 17th – Soul Sounds, Inc

Serpentine Path’s second record Emanations drops this week, marking a pivotal evolution from the band’s self-titled debut released in 2012. The focus remains the same though – soul crushing doom laden with tasteful death metal influences like Autopsy, while much has been said of the band’s members and previous bands,

Two artists that have been an instrumental part of our CVLT Nation FOUR season are Konstantinos & Alex of Viral Graphics. This Greek//American team of sick illustrators have worked with some of the best labels and bands out there, put together an amazing illustration zine, Bacteria, and created the Human

7 Degrees Records has just announced the pre-order for Dephosphorus‘ upcoming full-length, Night Sky Transform, which will hit shelves on August 20th, 2012. Axiom was CVLT Nation’s top choice for Best Grindcore/Powerviolence Albums of 2011, so needless to say we are stoked to hear Dephosphorus’ next offering! Night Sky Transform