The Vomit Arsonist   

An Occasion For Death

Malignant Records 2013

US electronic death adherents, The Vomit Arsonist have spun a suffocating cocoon of nihilistic oppression.  Thinking God Out Of Existence is takes a philosophical sample of intellectual atheism and warps it with dread inducing tones and maddening electronic noise.  Cyclopean beats that loom like monoliths pound away amidst calming synth on At The Edge Of Life, Everything Is An Occasion For Death.  The highly distorted and washed out vocals call like some industrial beast screaming at a nonexistent god.  An industrial hum, throbbing with sinister intent ushers in Invita Minerva.  Mechanical noise, buried in the background, is overwhelmed by a wave of haunting shrieks.  Black Bile is perhaps a bit more imposing as the drum beats are so prominent and the synth gives it a more somber overall mood.  Futility and sadness reign on this track as the inevitability of death becomes omnipresent.  The final track, A Means To An End features a rising tide of noise and samples that are grimy and terror-filled.  The vocal passage accompanies sounds that summon imagery of a grotesque and brutal factory.  The sounds die out somewhat and the focus becomes almost completely the black metal style vocals which are supported by a warbling and maddening synth note.  This song becomes a soundtrack for horror and depravity.  The Vomit Arsonist is perhaps more vocally oriented than most of the albums released by Malignant Records.  However I think that makes them all the more inhospitable as they make their intentions known and fill the ambient soundscapes with even more disdain and hatred.  This is an album that is a soundtrack for the end of all life and the darkness and terror that accompanies that fate.