Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, dark-ambient.

Background/Info: The Vomit Arsonist is Andy Grant. This is the fifth full length of this death-industrial project, which is already been active for numerous years now and each time again brings a sinister and deadly sonic exposure.

Content: If you know the sound of Andy Grant, you directly will recognize the tormented format of his sonic creation. There’s a symbiosis between haunted atmospheres reflecting nihilism and despair at one side and the ghost spoken vocals accentuating the darkness of the work at the other side. The composition has been empowered by drones, which sometimes resonate like thunder.

+ + + : The Vomit Arsonist became one of the flag holders of the so-called death-industrial music. This new creation is even digging a bit deeper into the most haunted and even perverted corners of our brain while the artist just want to show… and maybe exorcise his own thoughts and frights about human mankind. This is an antidote to music that makes you happy, but it also is a masterpiece in its very own genre. The slow cadence of the resonating drones is adding an extra dramatic –or should I say tragic element to this composition.

– – – : The only single reproach I could imagine, is that the tracks are pretty similar too each other.

Conclusion: “Meditations On Giving Up Completely” clearly sounds as an invitation to leave a horrible world and it therefore also is a kind of dystopian sonic voyage that can’t leave you unaffected.

Best songs: “What’s Left”, “When The Last Flame Has Been Extinguished”.

Rate: (8).

Band: https://thevomitarsonist.wordpress.com / www.facebook.com/thevomitarsonist

Label: www.malingnantrecords.com / www.facebook.com/malignantrecords

Inferno Sound Diaries

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Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, ritual-ambient.

Content: Andrew Grant likes to collaborate with other artists, but for his latest opus he strikes back alone to release one of his most surprising albums ever.

“Only Red” sounds to me more like a conceptual release moving towards ritual-ambient elements. We immediately enter into the strange universe created by The Vomit Arsonist, which embraces disturbing sound creations and reveals genius writing and sound production. The next cuts will simply reinforce the conceptual- and ritual impression of the work.

It feels like an industrial mantra composition composed by heavy resonating and somewhat didgeridoo sounding sound effects. It creates a low vibrating sound wave that will give you goose pimples. I got the impression that real voices (a kind of mantra) have been transformed to reinforce the vibrating element. When you play it loud you really will feel the walls trembling around you.

The tracks have a kind of monotonous aspect, but which is totally appropriated for this kind of creation. You progressively feel like you are entering into a transcendental dimension leading you into a strange rite. The sound waves get heavier and are sometimes joined by screams lost in a kind of endless space. The tracks are pretty long, which gives enough time to have a real freaky impact on the listeners.

Some passages only get darker and darker, and progressively join the ultimate point of horror called “GW (Rdx)”, which features Kristoffer Oustad. We recently discovered the debut album (cf. Filth Haven”) by K. Oustad, which was a successful piece of dark-ambient. “GW” (“Go Without”) is a remix of the title song that was released in 2012. This remix totally matches with the global atmosphere running through “Only Red” and is a perfect cut to end in a freaky way.

Conclusion: What I like on “Only Red” is the easily recognizable sound treatment, which is absolutely terrific, but still rather unique in its genre. This is a genius mix between dark-ambient and ritual elements.

Best songs: “Choice”, “Only Red”, “Nothing Matters”, “GW (Rdx) feat. Kristoffer Oustad”.

Rate: (DP:8½)DP.

Band: www.facebook.com/thevomitarsonist

Label: www.malingnantrecords.com / www.facebook.com/malignantrecords

Inferno Sound Diaries

I have been working for over 30 years with Side-line as the main reviewer. My taste is eclectic, uncoventional and I prefer to look for the pearls, even if the bands are completely unknown, thus staying loyal to the Side-Line philosophy of nurturing new talents.

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