Sonic Cathedrals Vol. LIV Curated by BACCHUS mixtape is live now! This Irish horde has put together an awesome audio mindfuck that will have your brain spazzing! Besides curating this mixtape, BACCHUS is on an East coast tour right now with Torchrunner, peep the dates after the jump! Check out what inspired this musical storm below, and turn the volume up to 20!
This is our tour mixtape. It was compiled on our Euro tour last January. It’s a good mix of what we listened to in the van that tour. There is lots of shit we can’t listen to while driving, as it just sounds crappy on the van speakers & crap sounding stuff makes everyone cranky.
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A389 Recordings
Unleashes MMXII Mixtape
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Posted In Apocalyptic Blues,Blackened Crust,Features,Grindcore,Hardcore,Mixtapes
Is A389 Recordings sicker than sick? Hell fucking yes!!! Check out what they are giving away for free – a superdelic mixtape! Peep what the label has to say about this musical onslaught they have coming your way below. Also, if you are in the Los Angeles area this weekend, RSVP for the A389 Recordings//Scion showcase HERE!
Baltimore’s A389 Recordings have just posted their 2012 label sampler online via a streaming/downloadable digital mixtape. Clocking in at 52 tracks (and well over two hours of music) the digital mixtape showcases
a plethora of new and unreleased music from A389′s impressive and eclectic upcoming release schedule (as well as some classics from the label’s current/back catalog).Featured artists include: Seven Sisters Of Sleep, Countdown To Oblivion, Ilsa, Ringworm, Homewrecker, Like Rats, Children Of God, The Guilt Of…, Anne, Pulling Teeth, Young And In The Way, Junior Bruce, God’s America, Hatewaves, The Love Below, Empire Of Rats, Shin To Shin, Sick Fix, Kill Life, Enforcers, Pleasant Living, Gravehill, Cynarae, Triac, Thee High Priestess, Nothing, Rot In Hell, Unholy Majesty, Integrity, Gehenna, Low Places, Pharaoh (NJ), Full Of Hell, Vilipend, Ancient Shores, Pale Creation, Chapelle Des Morts, Virgin Witch, Pick Your Side, Eddie Brock, Penetration Panthers, Day Of Mourning, Withdrawal, Trapped Under Ice, In Cold Blood, Mindsnare, Astronomer, Masakari, Wisdom In Chains, Mighty Sphincter, Earthride and Vermapyre.
To Live a Lie Records
Mixtape For CVLT Nation1
Posted In Features,Grindcore,Mixtapes,Music,Power Violence
Today we kick off a new series of mixtapes, curated by record labels for the CVLT Nation readers. Our inaugural mix is curated by Raleigh, NC’s To Live A Lie Records, and gives you a taste of what you can find on their roster. Check out their description below, and stream this amazing mix below…
In an effort to be fair in picking out songs, I decided to use the scientific method to give people precisely what they have liked and wanted rather than letting my own biases take over. I went onto my newly populated Bandcamp page, ran a stats report on the top listened to songs in the last thirty days (April to May) and picked through and removed songs that are the start of albums, since those tend to have artificially increased numbers of listens when someone wants to see what a band on there sounds like. I tried to further do that with second songs, thinking that might be the next person just listening to the whole album in order and then shutting it off if his time didn’t permit. Last, I took that order and flipped it around so the most popular songs are built up to. Here we are with the cream of the crop of my releases, as liked by the general populace, using a sample size of over 11k song plays!
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CVLT Nation
Deathrock 2012 Mixtape
Curated by Oliver Sheppard5
Posted In Death Rock,Features,Mixtapes,Music
Deathrock never died, but it would be willfully ignorant to claim there isn’t new blood currently reinvigorating the genre. The recent uptick in the number of bands owes a lot to the DIY hardcore punk scene.
Some of the new bands, like Blue Cross, began as side projects of hardcore acts (Germ Attak, in that case). Others, like Deathcharge, the Spectres, Crimson Scarlet, and Lost Tribe, either started as punk bands, or feature members that got their start in bands from that scene. There is a strong tinge of anarcho/peace punk among the new bands, too; one of the best current bands in the genre, Christ vs Warhol, use the phrase “anarcho post-punk” to describe themselves at their Facebook page. It’s hard not to hear the influence of the old female-fronted early 80s bands like Blood and Roses, Madhouse, Lost Cherees, Poison Girls, and Rubella Ballet in the sound of Arctic Flowers, Tanzkommando Untergang, Dekoder, Dead Cult, and Cemetery. In the meantime, older bands like Rudimentary Peni, Alien Sex Fiend, Bloody, Dead and Sexy, The Damned, and Killing Joke still make new material – and some of their recent stuff is included here for good measure, tying in the old with the new. A refocusing on the DIY punk roots of the music (the original bands like Theatre of Hate, 45 Grave, Superheroines, UK Decay, and TSOL all began as punk bands themselves, after all) has injected a new urgency into the sound. In short, 2012 is a very good time to be into gothic punk rock. So, forget about “grave wave,” forget about witch house (please), and forget about dark-indie-revival-etc. blather. This is all about a raw, returning-to-its-gloomy-basics type of dark punk being made by, thankfully, a growing number of bands now. There are way more bands than could be covered here (like, for example the ubiquitous Spanish-language and Latin American deathrock bands, which are among the best), but this should serve as a good appetizer for what all is out there. Get out your eyeliner, turn on your fog machine, and grab your Aquanet – goth is going anarcho.
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Sonic Cathedrals Vol. LIII Curated by Negative Standards mixtape is live now! This collection of tunes is another fucking banging experience, and I’m not suprised because Negative Standards know what time it is! Check this out – they just released their new album VI-XI, buy that motherfucker, it’s the shit! They’re on a U.S./Quebec Tour as we speak, peep the dates after the jump. Now check out all of the links for Sonic Cathedrals Vol. LIII, download it and have a blast!!!
As a band, we all come from very different musical backgrounds and have similarly varying tastes in music. We are influenced by incredibly heavy punk/doom/noise as well as the ethereal and more melodic sides of things. This mixtape is a collection of what we each decided was influential in our songwriting. We hope you enjoy it.
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Joe Yanick of Masakari/Little Sister/Trespasser has curated a special mixtape for CVLT Nation entitled From Cleveland With Hate… that gives you the nitty gritty of this city’s rich punk history! Now read what our homie has to say about this audio history lesson he put together to fuck with your head! Respect to Cleveland & Joe, good looking out!
I made this mix not necessarily of my favorite bands but of some of the ones I feel most accurately chronicle Cleveland’s impressive history in punk rock. I couldn’t begin to cover everything but I feel like it’s adequate in introducing you to some bands you love, some bands you may have not even heard of, and some bands that helped shape the sound of punk in America. Cleveland’s never been nice. It’s never been easy, but it has always been great. Love them or Hate them, these are among some of the most important punk bands.
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Sonic Cathedrals Vol. LII Curated by CLOUDKICKER is a 17 track, blissed-out voyage packed full of awesome songs. Many of these bands have impacted my life on a personal level, that might be why I dig this mixtape so much. Now it’s time to wipe the dreams from your eyes and let the sun shine in…have a listen to CLOUDKICKER’S Sonic Cathedrals Vol.LII…Check out the band’s description below, stream the mix and download after the jump!
Every one of these songs makes me feel something, and all–be it artist or specific song–have ingrained themselves into the way I approach writing music.
- Ben
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From May 31st through June 3rd, Austin, TX, belongs to Chaos in Tejas. This is one of the sickest festivals on the planet hands down, and the crew that runs it have outdone themselves this year! There are going to be so many great bands in town that your head will spin! In celebration of Chaos in Tejas, Jack Barfield curated an all-Texas band mixtape entitled From Tejas With Love… – 27 jams of Texas Heat that with make your head explode!
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Sonic Cathedrals Vol. LI Curated by -(16)- is 19 track, whacked-out heavy journey packed full of awesome grooves. Last week, these lords of heavy released their new album, Deep Cuts Dark Clouds, via Relapse, and the record is the shit! Now it’s time to make your ears melt – have a listen to -(16)-’s Sonic Cathedrals Vol.LI…Check out the band’s description below, stream the mix and download after the jump!
“Mixtape” is a term that conjures up such weird memories. For me, it was a mixtape that I awkwardly gave to some girl with braces who hung out at the skate ramp. Hopes were that I was turning her on to something, or better yet, that I would somehow subliminally find her to be a kindred spirit, so that we could drink Dr. Pepper and Captain Morgan while her parents were out of town. Dry humping to Dead Can Dance or staying up late to watch “Headbanger’s Ball” would surely follow.
In the times before the “headphone isolation” that is music today, there would also be the mandatory mixtape taken on tour. If we were lucky, the tape deck had “auto reverse,” so we didn’t have to flip the cassette, and could use our motor skills more wisely by smoking weed out of a coke can while driving through a snow storm out of Reno en route to Gilman.
Anyway, onto our contribution: Aside from some obvious -(16)- influences, the songs that Tony and I chose are more like what you’d hear at a high school reunion. That is, if your high school was wasting your twenties and thirties playing metal and trying to erase your teens by way of feedback and breaking bottles in squats. Enjoy!
Bobby Ferry
-(16)-
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Sonic Cathedrals Vol. L Curated by LITTLE SISTER is in full motherfucking effect. CVLT Nation is so stoked for this volume, because every song that this band has created is on the next level of radness. You will be a believer when you hear their new EP coming out any day now on Replenish Records…the record is 1000% fire!!! In the meantime, it’s time to make your ears bleed lava – have a listen to LITTLE SISTER’s Sonic Cathedrals Vol.L…Check out the band’s description below, stream the mix and download after the jump!
Being a band comprised of five different individuals, you get many different takes on what inspires you and what drives you to create music, so with this mix we tried not to cut anything out and as a result what you have here is a 2 hour mix tape of our favorite pieces of music created by artists who have inspired us to create the music that we do, artists who are our peers and we have immense respect for, or artists who are friends of ours that are creating some amazing things. Enjoy!
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