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V.E.G.A. - Cocaine

Published March 22 2007


*
=Staff's pick

Lilja...
Insex Infect
Perspectives
Beton 1
Burning In My Own Dream Of Life
Consumed Seclusion
Beton 2
Kill Me
Marching Off..
(Vacuum Era Gelid Atmosphere)/Cocaine


Genre Black Metal
Rav�z
Vocals
Tracks 10
Rav�z
Guitar
Runningtime 58 Min.
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Guitar
Label Moribund Records
Kekoz
Bass
Release 08 Aug. 2006
Janos
Drums
Country Italy
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Keyboard
Similar artists Anaal Nathrakh, Horna, Enochian Crescent, Azrael

Everything in metal seems to relegate to the eighties lately. There is a resurgence of vinyl music being released in tandem with the newer CDs. The average new release clocks in at about 45 minutes; all the great eighties artists are suddenly reforming; and many movies are harping back to that era of indulgence and pride. I consider all these to be extremely good, especially since that decade is most endearing to my heart. I love today's technology; but everything else about the eighties was just better. The reason I mentioned this is that cocaine now seems to be reinstated as the drug of choice.

Already this week, I have experienced three artists singing to the white lady. The Darkness' annoying vocalist - Justin Hawkins has purchased his one way ticket to hell and got stuck in a rut; Pete Steele of Type O Negative has been consumed by his carnivore of delights; now I'm reviewing an album aptly called Cocaine, in a sense infecting my brain.

When I was young, I sang the lyrics to the Eric Clapton song; completely oblivious to its true meaning. When Ozzy and Styx were snowblind, I thought they were caught up in some odd blizzard in paradise. I am grateful that I have never experimented with cocaine, or any hard drugs. Listening to the V.E.G.A.'s diatribe of darkness, disconsolation, and disillusionment, must be what it feels like to be under under the influence of this soporific and despotic addictive alkaloid.

Italy's V.E.G.A. is definitely an experiment in existential deliverance. Being black metal, yet so much more, this triad of lugubriously melancholic perspectives not gratia, lilt licentiously with eerie habituations and atmospheric vacuuous vociferations of abysmal disallowance and declination. The complete hour-long endurance and listening experience is an unceasing caustic mind trip into the void of unconsciousness.

The CD initiates with the horror epic of nightmarish proportions, screaming with a chainsaw screech that lures you into the instant insanity, vicariously. You can bet on the Insex Infect thrusting your arthropodic exoskeleton. It is songs like Beton 1 and 2 which have that vestigial paralysis known to occur in malady and malaise. They bear that industrial grind, and the drums seems programmed. Overall, the guitar parts throughout are razor sharp, chopping each line with accuracy accute.

Burning In My Own Dream, counterbalances, switching to the psychedelic level; symbolizing a symbiotic state of euphoria. As the enthrallment of analgesic combusts, the torpid lethargy ensues. The final track - 16 minutes of madness - has dead space right in the middle of the song - symbolizing a comatose state of awareness, perhaps? Then, the hidden track, called Cocaine resumes with this almost surreal techno videogamesque style; giving one a true sense of the ultimate trip the line fantasmic.

V.E.G.A will appeal to fans of Anaal Nathrakh the and their ilk of anomaly. The music is never 100% pure black metal. I am not a fan of the black metal which is stripped down and raw. I prefer melody; not primitive aesthetics. I am evidently the least likely person to be reviewing bands like the V.E.G.A.; with my knowledge and skill meager, for this type of flourish. I rose to the challenge to review something peculiar, yet degenerate. Overall, the negation sustained is essentially the band's message: a delectible disdain for cocaine - to no longer be drowning in torment and consumed seclusion.

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Summary



6 chalices of 10 - Michael the MettleAngel


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