Vomito Negro – Entitled (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro.
Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl.
Background/Info: Vomito Negro stroke back before summer with the new album “Entitled”. The work features older-, but previously unreleased tracks, which were originally written in the 80s and now reworked and re-recorded. Eight pieces have been recovered from dust and resurrected.Notice by the way the vinyl edit was released by Mecanica (Poland).
Content: These songs sound like ‘old’ Vomito Negro; a dark and tormented sound, which made the Belgian band that famous. Coldness sounds like they are emerging from any single note and arrangement while the ghost-like vocals by Gin Devo are only reinforcing the nightmarish approach. “In Strikt Tempo” is a familiar, old track, but this version is totally different from both versions originally released at “Human” (1990).
+ + + : “Entitled” clearly consists of untitled, forgotten and previously unreleased songs by this great Belgian formation. It brings us back to the glorious days of the band although Gin Devo is now the single core member on board. This work has the smell of the late 80s and early 90s. The first half of “Entitled” is absolutely phenomenal; a mysterious, cold track with samples about LSD to take off followed by the elaborated and ghost-like “In Strikt Tempo”. “Something Must Break” coming next creates a transcendental sensation by the repetitive sequences, but it’s another cool cut. Both last tracks are also worthy of examination; a bit harder again and brining us back to dark, terror-like atmospheres.
– – – : I only noticed 2 songs (cf. “Blood Fever” and “Weak”), which can’t totally convince me.
Conclusion: I’m always a bit skeptical when famous bands release old and unreleased material, but this album will ravish the ‘old’ Vomito Negro fans… even if the band’s legendary singer is no longer involved, this album sounds great!
Best songs: “Something Must Break”, “In Strict Tempo”, “Murk”, “Ongoing Patterns”, “23 Days”.
Rate: 8½.
Artist: www.vomitonegro.com / www.facebook.com/vomitonegro
Label: www.darkdimensions.de / www.facebook.com/pages/Dark-Dimensions-Label-Group/486014725206 Read the news on ‘Entitled’.
About Vomito Negro
Vomito Negro is a Belgian electronic band formed in 1983. The name is Spanish and Portuguese for “black vomit”, a phenomenon that arises in the last stage of yellow fever. The band built its catalogue through the late 1980s and 1990s with albums including “Shock”, “Human” and “The New Drug”.
After the 2002 album “Fireball”, Gin Devo set the band aside and started the project Pressure Control, releasing the album “Vamp”. He revived Vomito Negro in 2008 with “Skull & Bones”, followed by “Fall Of An Empire” in January 2013, “Death Sun” in 2014 and “Black Plague” in 2017.
“Entitled” collects tracks written in the early 1980s that had never been issued. All songs were re-arranged and re-recorded by Gin Devo at his own studio, The Lab, using original vintage hardware synthesizers, sequencers and drum machines. Mecanica pressed the vinyl edition in a run of 500 copies. Gin Devo discussed his working method in the 2023 Click Interview with Gin Devo: ‘Who Wants To Create Music In Front Of A Computer Screen?’.
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