I won’t front – I have done my share of drugs, but the only mind-altering substance that has played a key role in my life has been the almighty THC. I’m also addicted to watching documentaries. So when I saw the link to the Vice documentary World’s Scariest Drug, I had to check it out. I’m not going to let the skeleton out of the grave, but I will say the story takes place in Columbia. So after the jump, check this shit out, and be safe!

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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.

Every day is a great day at CVLT Nation, and a big part of that comes from the support we receive from the community, ie:labels, bands and especially our readers. We see this webzine as platform for creative, like-minded humans. So when we got an email from Jan from Germany saying he took sick photos of the SLEEP & A Storm of Light gig on 05/10/12 at Conne Island in Leipzig, we were stoked to check them out. I must say, the dude totally blew my mind with the quality of his flicks – the lighting is on point! What a year for doom heads: SLEEP re-releases Dopesmoker on Southern Lord, plus they go on tour tomorrow – the weed gods are blowing our way! Light your bong and have a look at this stonerdelic photo essay…Euro tour dates after the jump!

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The debut LP by Ireland’s Putrefaction is a heavy dose of dark metallic crusty riffs skewered together by visions of concentration camps, putrefied bodies, cities consumed by filth, corruption and disease. The opening track ‘Scourge’ leads us in, with distorted feedback slowly fading and declining into a heavy bass tone atmospheric riff. This as all fans of heavy music know is the revving up and things after this are going to go pretty fucking awry. Much like being handcuffed to a car that’s about to explode. There’s the riff change, a low-pitched roar and yes, balls to the fucking wall, things have gone very awry!

Putrefaction – ‘Drown Them In Their Wine’ track off their debut LP ‘Blood Cult’ out May 2012
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In 1978, Steve Ignorant with his corrosive speech and sardonic lyrics proclaimed that, in fact, punk was dead. He believed that systems, movements, and all other organizations would invariably dig their meat hooks into the spirit of the music and use it as a means to exploit and market an ideology. In an ironic twist of fate, his band Crass (along with bands such as Subhumans, Conflict, Zounds, and Rudimentary Peni) would receive mainstream attention as pioneers of anarcho-punk, also regarded as peace punk, leaving many of their British contemporaries in the shadows of their subsequent success.

Groups like The System, Omega Tribe, Lost Cherrees, Lack of Knowledge, Blyth Power, and The Mob were amongst those that had fallen into darkness. Many others were even signed to Crass Records (see their A-Sides compilations) and/or had opened for them at their shows but just never caught on. They had moved away from the cacophony that typically defined the genre, gravitating toward melodic chants and stripped-down folk instrumentation. This distinct sound wasn’t nearly as abrasive or confrontational in form but lyrically and poetically there was much still in common including a strong political undercurrent.

Flash forward twenty plus years in the future to the Pacific northwest where a group of subversives have been resurrecting the once echoed calls of those unsung UK artists. PDX is both the revival and re-imagining of that forgotten sect. Based out of Portland, Oregon, the scene incorporates components of post-punk, crust, d-beat, goth, new-wave, and industrial to create an emotional outpouring while staking and laying claim to new ground.

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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!

Stream To Live A Lie Records Mixtape for CVLT Nation

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Are you ready the Black Thrash Overlords? Gospel Of The Horns are set to release a new mini-album entitled in the very near future via Invictus Productions. I have heard this whole sonic beast of Hades, and I can say it’s one huge caldron of vile bliss that will keep you headbanging for hours. Today, CVLT Nation is stoked that we have the chance to share with you a song from Sorcery & Blood. So now press play and let the madness begin!

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1984 was a fucking year to remember! One of my all-time favorite bands released 3 albums in one year, and played a crazy amount gigs. I’m talking about BLACK FLAG, who were on fire during this era. The lineup of Rollins, Ginn, Roessler and Steveson did some stellar damage while they were together. I love Chuck on bass, but I won’t front, Kira brought something really special to BLACK FLAG’s groove. Looking back on my youth, some of my coolest days or nights were spent watching them perform. By 1984, they were more than just a hardcore band. BLACK FLAG’s music had become a sonic beacon of weirdness for all of society’s rejects to tune into. Listening to them around this time opened up my mind to check other shit out. One thing that was evident during 1984 was that Henry had become way more comfortable as a frontman and seemed to be more into the new direction they were headed. By this time, their gigs were more about headbanging than slamming. I’m so excited to be sharing a full 1984 Hollywood show at Club Lingerie, with BLACK FLAG showing the world why when they hit the stage they could not be fucked with! What’s extra awesome about this footage is that it’s professionally shot, plus you get to see the band from some killer angles. So after the jump, look through rats eyes and peep this historic BLACK FLAG show!

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Roaring from the depths of Dublin’s punk cesspool, Rats Blood have been delivering the goods for months now with feral live shows and unsurprisingly come the release of this eight track demo, the band has committed their ferocity to tape with none of it lost. It can be a worry when a band shows nothing but havoc on a stage that when their first release comes it may not translate as well. Thankfully that’s not the case with Rats Blood’s tape. Of course the rawness of a gig can never truly be matched but these eight songs sure do make a valiant effort.

Unsurprisingly drenched in the most primal recording quality possible, this demo serves up a very brief, very concise hail of raging Japanese influenced hardcore. That said, the fiends of Swedish crust are running wild from the off too with flashes of Wolfbrigade and Disfear to be heard in the urgency of each song’s delivery.

With members of Contort and Putrefaction, and other familiar faces within Dublin’s scene, these eight songs are an adrenaline rush of caustic hardcore punk. The spat vocals are soaked in reverb and come bellowing from the pits of despair along with the cavalcade of riffs and frantic drumming. “Abyss” is a song that really captures all that this band is about with a seething bass line intro that erupts into some d-beat savagery. “Bloodsucker”, the opening number, is nothing short of fucking relentless and “Bottles” just simply pummels.

Rats Blood by AD.AD

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There has never been a time that I have looked at Daniel “Desecrator” Corcuera’s art and have not been fucking amazed. His art gives me the feeling that it was created by Lucifer himself, with the mission to destroy everything that is perceived as good! Like many wicked illustrators before him, Daniel has picked a new instrument of torment to spread his blackened apocalypse. He has has picked up the tattoo gun and is now the owner of Nekronikon Tattoo in Santiago, Chile. As an illustrator, Daniel has created graphics for some of the most vile bands in the underworld. His tattoo work is just as maniacal as his drawings, and seems to actually come to life on his victims’ skin. It seems that Daniel has the death touch to his work, that is why his lines are so morbidly awesome! I could write for daze about how sick his work is on many levels, but I’m going to allow it to make you bleed instead…peep the photo gallery after the jump!

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