AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: KVSKET — “ALL THIS TALKING”

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Jul 232025
 

(written by Islander)

The Minnesota band kvsket (pronounced “casket”) describe themselves as “Minneapolis Goth Rock”. That’s the definition of a short-hand description. The “for fans of” references to Deftones, Gojira, My Chemical Romance, Turnstile, and The Cure is more descriptively complete but still doesn’t complete cover the waterfront of kvsket‘s head-spinning music on their album Patiently Awaiting Your Arrival, which was released last February. We tried to unpack it in May when we premiered a video for one of the album tracks (“Hot Grip”):

The 11 mostly short songs on Patiently Awaiting Your Arrival encompass a lot of musical variety…. You’ll find big burly bounding grooves, guitars that abrade like a belt-sander and glitter like needles or quiver like warped sirens, high-flying singing with a raw edge, dark gothic crooning, furious wailing yells, and nasty snarls. Continue reading »

AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: KVSKET — “HOT GRIP”

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May 302025
 

(written by Islander)

Maybe it’s because the second season of Last of Us is on my mind, but today I’m thinking of our site like a fungal node, a dense mass of nasty and nightmarish extreme metal from which creeping tendrils reach out into more remote underground territories. This imagery is on my mind because we’re about to premiere a video for a band and a song that are outside the core of our usual churning and blood-congealing musical infections, though they do have tendril-like connections to the infections we usually spotlight.

The band is kvsket (pronounced “casket”). They’re from Minnesota, they include a member of the death metal band Graveslave (that’s one tendril), and they describe themselves as “four friends who, all looking for something more outside of their former bands and projects,” concocted music they describe as sounding like, or for fans of, Deftones, Gojira, My Chemical Romance, Turnstile, and The Cure.

Those results are currently collected in an album named Patiently Awaiting Your Arrival that was released this past February. The video you’re about to see is for a song off that album named “Hot Grip“. Continue reading »