Aussie metalcore powerhouse Alpha Wolf have announced their own curated heavy music festival CVLTFest.
CVLTFest will feature Alpha Wolf as the headliners with friends Silent Planet (USA), DEEZ Nuts (their first show back in Australia in nearly 4 years), Currents (USA), The Beautiful Monument, To The Grave, Bloom, Vengeance and Future Static.
Speaking about the launch of the festival Alpha Wolf share that it was an idea they'd been waiting to enact for quite a while.
"This has been an idea brewing for quite some time now, we were just waiting for the right time to execute it. The idea behind it being a way to celebrate the heavy scene in Australia, while also bringing a few special international bands into the mix, and a collective way to experience an Alpha Wolf festival the way we would want to experience one."
While the road has been far from easy for Alpha Wolf and they refuse to let anything stand in their way. Throughout the chaotic and turbulent times they find themselves, the band released their sophomore album ‘a quiet place to die’ to critical acclaim including a #6 spot on the ARIA charts and a nomination for Best Heavy Album at the ARIA awards. Selling out multiple sold out runs around Australia, two European runs under their belt, the band are currently on a huge North American run as direct support to ERRA.
So why this line-up you ask? Alpha Wolf explain.
"We aimed to showcase the best Australian talent coming out in right now combined with a bunch of exciting internationals to take it to the next level, all under the Alpha Wolf CVLT brand. We’re yet to see something of this style and scale in Australia for quite a while and we just wanted to make it as exciting as possible for everyone involved."
While they don't do anything in halves and continue to push boundaries, CVLTFest is no exception. Each band on the line up will donate 10% of merchandise commission to an organisation of their choice and all festival brand merchandise profits will be donated to a charity by Alpha Wolf.
"In our few experiences playing festivals with merch cuts being purely incentivised to advantage the operator of the festival, we wanted to switch that up and make it purely towards charity. With a percentage of each band's merchandise sales of the day donated to a charity of their choice, we feel it’s our way to give back to the community in a small way, while also hopefully inspiring others to push for the same."
