VOMIT FORTH – Terrified of God

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6.5

• Bands:
  VOMIT FORTH
• Duration: 00:27:08
• Available from: 11/10/2024
• Label:

• Century Media Records

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Just over two years after the debut “Seething Malevolence”, a period spent clocking up kilometers in a van and supporting people like Cattle Decapitation, Kruelty, Pain of Truth and The Acacia Strain, Vomit Forth are back with their ignorant blend of hardcore and death metal, always under the aegis of the powerful Century Media.
A proposal that, these days, some might compare to certain sterile drifts on which the German label itself has placed strong emphasis since the explosion of the Lorna Shore phenomenon, but which in reality looks to musical coordinates that are much more acrimonious, concrete and rooted in the underground tradition of their respective genres, for a flow that continues to rise like a wave before crashing down in a decidedly unconciliatory and 'trendy' way on the listener in question.
Recorded under the supervision of Randy LaBeouf (Jesus Piece, Kublai Khan), “Terrified of God” therefore carries forward the vision of the aforementioned full-length and its purely barbaric and instinctive language, whose strength does not lie so much in the ability to structure the individual pieces, but rather in the verve that allows the guitars and the rhythm section to string together one destructive parenthesis after another, generating a climate of tension that must necessarily be vented in the weight room or in the pit.
In fact, by delving into the tracklist and imagining what its process might have been, it's easy to think that the Connecticut group usually throws all their ideas on the table and then assembles them 'like hell', without paying much attention to the form. and focusing first of all on the impact released by the various riffs and breakdowns; a risky modus operandi, but which for the moment – thanks to a still decorous inspiration and the genuineness of the ferocity unleashed – allows the sound of Ours not to sink, with the introduction of black metal cues to complete a decidedly threatening, if not even apocalyptic.
A music which, starting from the lesson of troglodytes such as Skinless and Internal Bleeding and from that of the most grim and caustic metalcore (Turmoil, All Out War, etc.), comes close to that of friends/peers 200 Stab Wounds, although here – thanks to the use of effects and industrial solutions – the whole tends to refer less to traditional scenarios, with the first part of the work (“Victim Impact Statement”, “Sacred Apple”, “Blood Soaked Death Dream”) showing more of the second, Vomit Forth for their very nervous crossover attitude.
Obviously, the chaotic pace of the writing also leads to clashes with episodes which, to put it mildly, go nowhere, but it can be said that the price, at the moment, is inseparable from the offering of the American quintet, whose roughness it induces both to put one's hands in someone's face and to overlook the naivety present.
In all likelihood, the next step will be decisive in understanding the true extent of these kids.