VASTUM Patricidal Lust LP

VASTUM Patricidal Lust LP

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(20 Buck Spin)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
  Now in stock on both digipack CD and limited edition vinyl, each version featuring completely different album art...
   Ever since the release of their debut album Carnal Law, Vastum has grown into one of my favorite of all of the current practitioners of primordial death metal. From their surrealistic, erotically deranged artwork (often produced by Vastum vocalist Daniel Butler) to the pervasive influence of the transgressive writings and philosophies of Georges Bataille upon the band's heady lyrical themes, Vastum's thought-provoking subject matter becomes a transmutative force upon the band's crushing, almost atavistic death metal. Featuring Leila Abdul-Rauf (Saros, Amber Asylum, Hammers of Misfortune) and members of Bay Area deathcrust heavies Acephalix (themselves somewhat influenced by Bataille, as you can tell by the name), one could imagine that Vastum might offer a more progressive take on death metal, but this is in fact as cruel and as doom-laden as this sort of death metal can get, sounding as if it has crawled straight out of some black gutter circa 1991. With their second album Patricidal Lust, Vastum's sound seems even heavier and more pointed than before, opening with the chugging, bilious violence of "Seasons in the Claustrum (The Libidinal Spring)" as the band hurls itself into a rotting underworld filled with the stink of sex and the coppery stench of blood. The music is rooted deeply in the black boneyard soil of late 80's death metal, that opening song shifting from slower, doomed passages of slow motion heaviosity and sickening syrupy soloing into faster, more frantic blasts of double-bass mayhem, slimy discordant riffage and their signature brand of eerie snakecharmer guitar leads that twist and spiral down into the darkness. Once again, Vastum's erotic horrorscapes are inhabited by the dual vocal attack of Daniel Butler's deep, guttural bellowing and Leila Abdul-Rauf's putrid, fearsome screams, and the band makes further use of subtle keyboard textures throughout the album, applying layers of desolate electronic ambience or murky black drift to certain passages to further flesh out their cum-and-blood stained visions, particularly on the skull-crushing doomdeath of "Incel". That subtle but very effective use of electronic texture continues right into the opening moments of the title track as well, as the band's reptilian deathcrawl surges forward on waves of black kosmische gravedrift before they lock down into the song's lethal chugging groove, later shifting into a killer deformed stench-stomp later in the song. Closer "Repulsive Arousal" did a fair job of ripping my head off as well, what with its tightly syncopated math-death chuggery that kicks in towards the end, and it features some of the album's eeriest guitar leads, those delay-drenched bends echoing out across Vastum's psycho-sexual abyss like fading moans.
   Also available on vinyl with alternate black and white artwork from vocalist Daniel Butler, which I actually prefer out of the two editions; Paolo Girardi's smeary apocalyptic imagery on the CD edition (which is included as a poster insert with the vinyl) is always cool to see, but for me, Butler's stark black ink illustrations seem to fit even better with Vastum's sexually decadent and philosophical visions, almost appearing like distorted illustrations from some ancient crumbling Beardsley-inked volume produced by the Surrealists...   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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