Going Viral…Bacteria Zine0
Posted In Art,Fanzines,Illustration
When I first discovered Viral Graphics, they had a mysterious project in the works called Bacteria. I had no idea what it was going to be, other than the handful of super sick illustrations that they were offering for preview. The day of reckoning has come for fans of this talented artist duo – today, Bacteria zine goes on sale on the Viral Graphics webstore. For appreciators of metal artwork, this zine is gold – it features interviews with and artwork by Angryblue, Alexander L. Brown, Michael Canich, David V. D’Andrea, Simon Fowler, Alison Lilly, Putrid, Rainbath Visual, Santos Illustration, Glyn Smyth, Jerald Tidwell, Ryan Lipynsky and Nick Sciacca. The first issue of this illustration fanzine is limited to 150 copies, and each copy of this 90-page black & white pro-printed zine is hand-numbered and comes with a custom illustration on the back, courtesy of Alex and Kon of Viral Graphics. Like their illustrations, Bacteria is a work of art itself and a true collectible. After the jump, check out some preview photos of this epic zine, and make sure you get your copy before they are all gone…
Weirdos, Freakaziods, Punks, Skaters, Leftists, Metal Heads, and Slackers…what bonds us all is art! We all know how the underground music scene has helped nuture underground illustrators, be it with flyers, album covers or other subversive materials. An early medium for freaks to express themselves with was the comic book. So it makes total sense that British comic publishing house Eyeball Comix creates comics that speak to the inner misfit in all of us! With page after page of filth that will rot out your eyes, you will be hooked. What I really dig about this company is the way that they support the underground illustrators – they have worked with Sin Eater & Gunsho, just name a couple. They have just released issue Three, and we have a couple of pages after the jump, and numb your fucking brain! Plus you can buy the new issue HERE!
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I can’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t have an appreciation for art of all kinds, but it was being into the punk scene that made realize that there were so many ways to express oneself on an artistic vibe. I saw this taking place all around me, whether on flyers or in fanzines, which were also the lifelines for our scene, because this was a form of cross-country communication for us. Out of all this, the do-it-yourself motto became a way of life which gave young people the spark they needed to start their own publishing houses, creating fanzines using the medium of print. That is what this post is all about – from the radlands of the Midwest comes SISTINE PRESS, started and run by Dusty Neal. He has released many killer zines and books since the beginning of this publishing house. SISTINE PRESS really focuses on quality with their publications. Then there is the art – Dusty has the right vibe for the darkside, and you will never get bored looking at one of his books or zines. CVLT Nation would like to share with you two books from SISTINE PRESS: OVVERKILL (step into the occult mind) & ESOTERICA (enter a world where blackness shines dark). After the jump, focus your mind’s eye on the ghosts of the wastes…
Furious as the Black Flames of Hell…
CVLT Nation Interviews Daniel Desecrator3
Posted In Art,Black Metal,Fanzines,Features,Illustration,Interviews,Music
CVLT Nation had the pleasure to talk to the infamous black metal artist, Daniel Desecrator, and today we are sharing that interview with you. We have also been lucky enough to work with him on designs for our clothing line, and he has created some seriously amazing pieces for CVLT Nation. Daniel hails from Chile, where he works full-time on his artwork and as a tattoo artist, breathing life into the disturbing imagery of death. His artwork takes you to a place where your soul screams in terror while your heart leaps with a dark and disgusting joy. He has worked with bands like Hooded Menace, Demonic Rage, Morbid Insulter and Chronic Torment, just to name a few. He is also a member of the killer black metal band, Slaughtbbath, and a very talented self-taught tattoo artist. He is basically an extremely busy guy, and we are really happy he was able to take the time to let us into his world just for a moment. So after the jump, enter the slaughterhouse and the world of Daniel Desecrator…
The F666 zine made its debut on September 25th, 2011 at the ‘Dreams Were Made For Mortals 2′ group art show at Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus Bar. The Fall 2011 zine is 36 pages (6×6=three 6) chronicling NYC photographer Suren Karapetyan’s coverage of the explosive New York metal scene. CVLT Nation got our very own copy, and I can say first hand that it is a must-have for metalheads. It’s beautifully printed and full of Karapetyan’s epic photos, taken at shows he’s shot over the last 2 years. Iconic shots of Immolation, Krallice, Mutant Supremacy, Mayhem and more fill its’ pages, playing everywhere from stadiums to record shops, but I think my favorite is the Cannibal Corpse pit shot on the inside cover. He has also featured contributions by Justin Elm and Justina Villanueva, and an interview with Karlynn Holland. Overall, he has created a zine that will memorialize this time in New York and Brooklyn metal. I have a feeling that this is one of those “documenting history without knowing it” moments, and that Issue 1 of the f666 zine is something that will be a treasured part of your collection in the years to come. There are only 100 issues available, and since I am a little late on this review, there are probably way less than that left. You can pick them up either locally at Generation Records in New York City and Desert Island in Brooklyn, or if they’re out or you’re not local you can get it direct from the f666 store for $6.66. OR…I can send you the free giveaway copy Karapetyan sent us at CVLT Nation (not my copy!), just email us at contact@cvltnation.com with your shipping address and I’ll put you in the draw! Any purchases on the CVLT Store today will also be eligible for the giveaway (until 12PM PT 11/23/11). After the jump, check out our photos of the f666 zine…
***UPDATE: Draw is done. The winner is Angela F. of South Point, OH. Congrats!***
The Unholy Bow…
2011′s Final Zine0
Posted In Art,Fanzines
The Unholy Bow is the final installment of Terence Hannum‘s 2011 zine collection. As with his previous editions, The Unholy Bow will be pure art both in presentation as well as content. It will be printed by 5nakefork, and it is a collection of digital collages by Hannum. He takes great care in creating his limited edition zines, and the result is a true collectors item, immaculate in its packaging and intuitive in its pages. I have had a sneak preview of The Unholy Bow, and the imagery is dark and beautiful. Stay tuned to Hannum’s website for details about its release, and for now, check out some images of The Unholy Bow after the jump…
This tome has been the ridicule of some and received dark praise from others. My own notion of the book lies somewhere in between. Hideous Gnosis, subtitled ‘Black Metal Theory’ has a scholarly type approach to the writing style, and does become quite verbose at times but provokes many interesting questions and explanations behind the ideological and aesthetical side of this far too often black and white and causal subgenre. The book itself is written by several authors, so a varying degree of writing style are present. Chapters deal with extensive and varying subject not strictly based on the music but the influence and culture that it occupies. I found interest reading the portions titled ‘The Light That Illuminates Itself, The Dark That Soils Itself’. It impugns what most black metallers might already hold as truth, and opens opinions to be re-evaluated, for those of nature and the absolute. All imagery is tastefully put into the pages, and since i have a reverence for art, it was cool to see something there while pouring over the text. I thought the piece about reflecting on the politics in some black metal unbiased and rather left to voice the ideology of certain members in the underground scene, prominently, Famine of Peste Noire & Toxik Harmst of Diapsiquir. Taken from a perspective standpoint you will realize that the views of such members are posited in conspiracy with their own experiences, future, and influences and thus their meaning of anything is subjective. While most of it makes rational sense, and is relevant to them at the point in time to which it was said, it shall be noticed that one specific mode of thought is never constant, which is quite possibly the purpose of the book in it’s entirety. I personally cannot relate to the world on one level, and can’t limit my expression or ideas in such a confined way as to follow something, i create my own purpose and celebrate my individual. If you realize this already within yourself, this will serve as a psychological view of the writings as a means to further your own knowledge. And if you are still in the dark with who you are, you might then take from it what you need, like a tool to carve your own path.
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MAKING ROOM FOR YOUTH…FANZINE RETROSPECTIVE1
Posted In 80s Hardcore,Art,DIY,Fanzines,Illustration,Thrash
One of the raddest things about being a punk kid in the 80′s was the fanzine culture. D.I.Y was not a word for us but an lifestyle. Out of this culture grew the cottage industry of fanzines & from this, the independent publishing houses that produced them. Back then these fanzines were our internet – they actually connected the East Coast punks to the West Coast punks. My first love was my local, Flipside, & my second favorite was NoCal’s Maximum Rock & Roll (they brought the global perspective to fanzines with their global scene reports). Today, CVLT Nation is featuring two epic zines from the 80′s: the punk zine Urban Decay & the metal zine Brain Damage. Both of these have some awesome interviews from bands of the day, plus some killer art. Get your fanzine download on after the jump!
Terence Hannum of Locrian makes zines an art form. His carefully crafted and immaculately packaged zines are far, far from their photocopied and fucked up predecessors. This month, he released PURIFICATION, a collection of drawings and graphics, presented together using the concept of light, or at least, a departure from the usual darkness of Hannum’s previous publications. PURIFICATION is printed on white paper, and is delivered in a white envelope with a laser-etched acrylic plate as embellishment. It is a image essay of sorts, which Hannum described eloquently as inspired by “an inversion, a reversal of corruptions, a necessary portion to complete the profane and a process toward attaining another state.” After the jump, check out photos of PURIFICATION, and also find out where to pick up your copy, as well as copies of his past publications.
Dreams Were Made for Mortals II
This Sunday0
Posted In Art,Fanzines,Illustration,Mixed Media,Painting,Photography,Sculpture
Karlynn Holland has made good on her promise to make Dreams Were Made For Mortals into an ongoing series of group shows, and Dreams Were Made For Mortals II is happening this Sunday, September 25th, at St. Vitus Bar in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Holland is curating this one-day-only group show, inspired by and named after the track “Living Backwards,” from St. Vitus’ fifth album, V, and it will be hosted by David Castillo and Samantha Marble. For those of you who didn’t make it to the first of the series, make sure you head out to this show, because the first one looked like an epic time, and this one features some awesome artists, like Dilek Baykara, Karlynn & Sam themselves, and a bunch of other rad people. This is your chance to support some seriously creative people, who create to stay sane, and not to be some celebrity artist douchebag. There also promises to be rad music and cheap beers. Despite the 80 degree weather and incessant sunshine over here, I envy you New Yorkers who have the chance to be a part of something magical. Do my Cali ass a favor and head over to St. Vitus Bar, 1120 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11222, this weekend…
Dreams, frequently, are broadcast across neural pathways in vibrant color. They are so vivid, the dreams feel more real than waking life. It haunts me. Life feels like the dream, a series of passing moments. As I rise from paralysis, they evaporate from memory. How could something so real fade so quickly? I often find myself asking this question. Explore the dawn hours of your fervent mind with work that exposes our perishable nature and echoes human frailness so often deified by gods of rock and roll.
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