Human Vault – God Under Construction 2011 – 2021 (Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Industrial.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: Hungarian born Gyorgy Turoczy aka ‘Mortum’ has been releasing music under the Human Vault moniker since 1997. Actually based in New-York (USA) this project released an impressive discography and got signed last year to Aliens Production. This album is a kind of retrospective featuring songs composed between 2011 and 2021.
Content: Human Vault stands for a powerful sound, which might be best described as the imaginary offspring between FLA, Mortal Constraint and Skinny Puppy. The songs are elaborated and often reminiscent of the 90s.
The work features 14 songs and 7 remixes by Willful Deception, First Aid 4 Souls, Gary, Nova State, PTR and 2 by Sik_Of_Novakill.
+ + + : If you don’t know this band yet, the album is a perfect opportunity to get familiarized by the sophisticated and intelligent sound of Human Vault. The composition reflects intelligence characterized by impressive and overwhelming sound treatments. It’s a rough production and subtle. There’s a perfect balance between powerful tracks driven by faster rhythms and more evasive cuts revealing dark and powerful atmospheres. Among the remixes I noticed great contributions by Sik_Of_Novakill, Gary and Nova State.
– – – : I think it’s a pity this band isn’t more known by the EBM audience. That’s why I would have preferred to get more ‘older’ songs instead of remixes –even if the remixes are excellent!
Conclusion: I’m really wondering how Human Vault will evolve, but this project can look back at a very strong basis.
Best songs: “Do Not Believe In You”, I Pray I Die”, “This Hate (Edit), “You Deny (Edit)” + “This Hate – Abjection Mix by Sik_Of_Novakill”, “This Hate – Neuroclub Remix by Gary”.
Rate: 8.
Artist: www.facebook.com/mortum/exabyss
Label: www.label.aliens.sk / www.facebook.com/pages/Aliens-production-label/200028820052578
About Human Vault
Human Vault is the dark electro project of Gyorgy Turoczy, who records as Mortum. He started the project in Hungary in 1997 and later relocated to New York.
Early material appeared without a label, among it the “Fuck Symbols Fuck Gods” EP in 2002 and the albums “Pagan Propaganda” in 2005 and “Mutilated Dreams” in 2007. From 2008 his own Exabyss Records issued “Where Gods Die”, “Omnium Humanity” in 2009, the double CDr “Tears Of The Quiet Ones” in 2011, “Existence Means Nothing” in 2014 and the CD “As The Beggars” in 2015.
Cassette releases on No Labels Interested followed with “For All Your Religions” and the “DataSect” EP in 2017 and the “It Is War Again” EP in 2019. Exabyss Records issued “The Immortality Craft” and the double-cassette compilation “The Box” in 2019, the “Self Rust” EP and “The Evoke Of The Terrific Nothing” in 2020. Aliens Production released the compilation “God Under Construction [2011-2021]” in 2021, and Phage Tapes issued a CD version in 2022.
The remix album “Carnal Motives” followed in March 2022, a month after Side-Line published a Click Interview with Human Vault. The “The Undermining Instrument Of Fate” EP arrived later in 2022, the compilation “The Vault” in 2023, “All Must Be Gone” in 2025 and “Waiting Is Endless” in 2026.
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