Very few bands these days seem to honestly enjoy what they do, more being focused on ticking boxes on the underground death metal checklist, but Vulnificus seem to enjoy making compelling structured noise with the urgency of old Pestilence or Suffocation.
Inextricable seems like a tideover release as personnel changes alter this band, but it begins its exploration in the old school percussive death metal model and integrates very few changes since that time, aiming more to find its own sound.
While at first it seems very much cut from the mould, over time it becomes clear that this band writes songs around the clash between two rhythms scripted into riffs, and this produces an explosive tension that allows them to layer techniques, vocals, and explosive blasts for a texture of aggression.
Tags: death metal, vulnificus
Okay wasp punk
What is to be done with miscegenation huh?
Do u wanna kill mixed people huh?
And black will go to Africa but how?
But what about halle Berry huh what about her she is half okay?
What about black Jews like Drake what about him?
Is Biden going to win again huh?
Would u fuck Kamala Harris’s funky black bottomless pussy huh?
Do Japanese people like Africans? What about dina Eastwood?
Are u willing to kill mixed people or what?
Miscegenation = repatriate like any other Other. Most people in the world are miscegenated. I think that reparations-with-repatriation is fairest to all parties.
I’m already struggling with my mortgage bro I don’t wanna pay more to the state to move people that some people don’t like.
Taxes are too damn high, which is why we need long-term solutions so that we can abolish the welfare state.
Listening to this while hungover, my head feels like being thrown about by ocean waves. I think I’m going to be seasick.
It sounds like someone tried to trick out Suffocation with Deeds of Flesh and Immolation, but it has its own sense of self, like each song is a clear statement in a dialect I don’t quite understand.
Any plans to review the new Cruciamentum album? It has Texas’s very own Matt Heffner (Blaspherian, Imprecation) on drums.
Will look into it. Blaspherian is painfully missed.
Brett, what’s your best advice to keep scrambled eggs from sticking to the pan?
You cook eggs low temperature, so use a fair amount of butter. You want the little fuckers floating on the fat. That, and make sure you have a well-seasoned pan.
very true and if done correctly with low temp you don’t even have to flip the eggs, but this also depends on style, I like my yolks broken and mixed but not scrambled, more like one giant yellow egg
I go sunny-side over. Works for me and reminds me that I am eating dinosaur eggs.
I hate having to be super-normie by valuing production, but whoever EQ’d that rhythm guitar needs to never be allowed to touch a DAW again in their life. And, if it sounded that way coming out of the speaker cab, then whoever dialed it in that way shouldn’t be allowed to dial in a guitar amp ever again.
My guess is that the band wanted a distinctively bad sound, like early black metal did.
Even at their rawest, the Norse black metal bands were all careful to push the guitar to the front and preserve the clarity of what notes it was playing, even if it had the odd-order harmonics that are a telltale of cheap distortion. The problem with how Vulnificus is EQing the rhythm guitar is that it’s losing its prominence entirely and gets badly lost between the drums and bass.
I remember the first time I heard a techno band that did this. They basically wanted to sound like drums and bass with some stuff going on in the background. It worked for two reasons: first, it was a unique sound that appealed to people at a certain point in the night; second, it was almost unmixable, which kept its brand fairly elite. Wish I could remember the name. I feel like the Vulnificus material was produced on the desktop and they have fallen afoul of some bad algorithms, but even more, an inability to use compression. Maybe this is deliberate. I have been listening to their back catalog and my main thought is, when do you sit down, pick out the best, streamline and update the rest, and put out a really killer album? Most bands that are heading for perpetual local band status refuse to do this.
Most of the second wave was pretty well recorded in real studios and skillfully mixed to sound raw or whatever your adjective may be. Even early Burzum is very well mixed despite using crap equipment. The newer crop seems to miss that. Also from what I’ve learned a huge factor contributing to the wall of noise problem is that bands just crank the gain all the up which leads to a huge indiscernible mess. The problem there is twofold: 1) it probably sounds good in a conditioned room. 2) lets the bands slide on making good riffs in favor of a potentially euphoric “tone”.
To another point about enjoyment I noticed from watching contemporary live bands that they are enthusiastic about being able to make music while stroking the “authenticity” boner despite the music being objectively boring. Listening to full releases it does feel like Demoncy kaeck/sammath come across as old guys who need to make an album these days.
Bm and dm are far too played out to be truly exciting for the bands or audiences. Although I would argue that the major problem comes down to these bands needing to be authentic, artistic, high concept (eg caveman religion lyrics). The inebriated teenagers writing catchy tunes first have all but fled to other genre.
Contemporary bands seem to be living out their dream like people who finally got to take a Disney cruise. “We are real black metal now, we’re just as cool as Euronymous, worship us!”
Burzum, Immortal, Mayhem, and Darkthrone had a sense of proportion and taste. They have higher IQs than most bands and are more sensitive instruments when it comes to measuring reality. There is also, as a friend often tells me, the concept of lagom, which seems just perfectly goddamn sensible.
Paul Di’Anno Maiden is more predictable than Bruce Maiden
Verse/Chorus/verse/chorus/fast section/verse/chorus.
All three verses have the same lyrics by the way.
Fuck your website
Who cares about lyrics?
Man I do. Every good metal band has had good lyrics and I can think of no exceptions.
Probably also true.
This sounds like every garbage can snare squealy brutal death band from the turn of the century. We’ve come full circle now that we’re appreciating this over modern crap.
Looking past the production, I think it has more to offer.
“compelling structured noise with the urgency of old Pestilence or Suffocation”
on paper this sounds so good. Gonna have to listen to this a few times, which I can’t really do atm, before I form a definitive opinion.
I always felt Suffocation was the best of “slam”, even better than Morph IMO, and Pestilence is better at “technical” dm than stuff like Deeds of Flesh, Sinister, Adramelech or worse… Necrophagist.
btw, kamala harris is the by-product of colonial r*pe. Nothing to brag about, sadly :-(
I wonder how much of colonial “rape” was not actually just love affairs. A certain percentage of any group want to race-mix. Normally they get exiled into the Other group, and this eliminates the problem.
Vulnificus has a lot to offer; what they need to do is nail down technicality and production, then remake the best of their tracks into a single hard-hitting album.
Brett, have you listened to the new malediction ep?
Nope, apparently am not on their mailing list. Thanks for letting me know.