Based on drone, doom, sludge, noise, and post-rock, KARLA KVLT creates monolithic and hypnotic tracks, recorded in 2023 in strictly D.I.Y.

manners in Hamburg. They manage to bring together seemingly incompatible styles like sludge doom and dream pop.

Both concepts come together in KARLA KVLT in an amalgamation of brutal beauty, and Exile On Mainstream is overjoyed to release Thunderhunter, the debut album of this new band.

During the 1990s it was bands like MELVINS, UNSANE, SWANS or COP SHOOT COP on the other side of the pond challenging listener's expactations, on this side one of the bands was EISENVATER and the guitar-based orchestra ROSSBURGER REPORT that evolved from it.

EISENVATERs live shows remain legendary transcending gatherings which among lovers of the extremes have a cult status and are of the kind that everybody claims to have been there.

Exile On Mainstream is thrilled to welcome back Markus E. Lipka, the driving force behind EISENVATER with a new band that is KARLA KVLT.

Together with his son Johann on drums and his daughter-in-law, Teresa (both also in MELTING PALMS), the trio delivers a raw and monolithic album that is unique in style and approach.

For the band, founded in 2023, this is the foundation: the radical dissolution of the ego.

Art does not emerge according to a precise plan. It arises when one lets go - of thoughts, expectations, ideas, and even personal desires.

The beats and riffs are tons heavy, the vocals bell-like, fragile, and intense. KARLA KVLT's music is dense, and immersive, but also beautiful - like a plant fighting its way through a concrete slab, like the tides, following a precise and unstoppable rhythm that can be as destructive as it is capable of revealing beauty in the next moment, offering a view of something new.