Decomposing party with longtime friends

VOMI NOIR “Les myasmes de la deliquescence”

Almost twenty years ago my journey into the realm of extreme music started. I was just a kid back then and tried to figure out by myself (small village, no big brothers…) the map of the vast kingdom of the music for the cast aways. One of the main resources in the first years of my travel was Braindead zine, held by the almighty Pierre. A lot of things that are obvious to me now draw back to that website and even this blog started inspired by it. I had the chance to finally meet Pierre this year at Obscene Extreme, after almost two decades of being in touch . Little did I know that he was going to unleash this beast. Pierre’s classic band to be associated with is Blue Holocaust, which has a really spread around discography and got a new album this winter too. Vomi Noir is a totally new beast. First of all it’s a full band. It got the chance to sharpen its teeth on various EP’s and a demo tape but, like a lightning bolt in a sunny day, unleashed this album without warning. Delivered by the great Marc’s Bringer Of Gore and featuring Pierre, this first album is like sitting at a table and chatting with a cold beer in my hand with old time friends from far away. Luckly, this is not the only good vibe coming out of these grooves. After “Apology for pathology” from Haemorrhage, the Last Days Of Humanity breakup, Regurgitate losing it and Dead Infection starting singing about furniture, I started losing my interest in goregrind. It kinda slipped away from my listening range and made me go full into noisecore. The rise of pornogrind and the mid tempo bands made the subject even more bitter to me. The Violent Gorge / Archagathus spawn focusing on a mix between goregrind and mincecore bored me quite fast and even if the recent trend of hyper-speed blastbeat-filled gore made my senses tingle but a lot of bands ended sounding just all the same. This record puts goregrind back in MY map. It’s the perfect way to describe a work done by guys that studied a lot. I know Pierre enough to know that he spent countless hours on the classics and always kept an eye open on the new tigers. With such knowledge the result is a perfectly crafted and balanced album with all the right influences. Dead Infection “A chapter of accidents”? Sure. The split between Malignant Tumour and Squash Bowels. Damn right. “Effortless regurgitation of bright red blood” by Regurgitate? Of course. “The sound of rancid juices sloshing around your coffin”, the Last Days Of Humanity debut album? Are you joking? A bit of Cabal, Crematory, old Bizarre Leprous catalogue and some Mexican freaks thrown in? You can bet on it. Everything is in the right place, not a bad note, a wrong beat. Each song is so focused and carefully crafted that you can’t push stop on this one. Vomi Noir is a force you can’t ignore. This is the past of goregrind, dissected, re-organized and rebuilt, ready for the future. This is not THE perfect goregrind record, but, surely, is a perfect one.

~ by petetheripper on January 5, 2020.