DEADLY STORM zine: #VOMITHEIST

VOMITHEIST - NekroFvneral

CD 2023, Transcending Obscurity Records

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Čerstvá rána, vyříznutá přímo do kůže. Maso odpadávající od kostí. Stará, plesnivá kobka, ukrytá hluboko pod zemí. Temnota a chlad. A také pravý nefalšovaný death metal. Dáma s kosou mě probudila uprostřed noci a odvedla do katakomb. Na stěnách visela mučená těla hříšníků. Chodbami se ozýval jejich nářek, smísený s ozvěnami ze záhrobí. Pochopil jsem ihned. Jsem zde správně, tady se hraje přesně pro mě. Pro starého death metalového psa. VOMITHEIST jsou ze Švýcarska a drtí kosti přesně tím způsobem, který mám tolik rád.

Z bělostné lebky vyleze černý červ. Hniloba, šílenství, smrt. Temnota a chlad, které vás ihned obestřou jako krvavá mlha. Pánové se volně inspirovali na severu, pokud máte rádi smečky jako CRAWL, FERAL, DISMEMBER, GRAVE, CARNAGE, AUTOPSY, ABSCESS, BLOODBATH, tak potom jste tu správně. Přidejte hlasitost a ulehněte do staré rakve!

Prosévám mezi prsty prach z rozdrcených kostí. "NekroFvneral" je albem, které má na mě absolutně destruktivní účinek. Mozek se mi vaří v hlavě a mám sto chutí skočit do starého hrobu. Zasypejte mě hlínou a proklejte mě! Jen o jedno vás prosím, nechci žádný kříž a když už, tak obrácený. Rád píšu o kapelách, které umí složit dobré zapamatovatelné skladby. Musí rozdrásat můj obličej do krve a musím si pamatovat jednotlivé motivy. Tohle všechno Švýcaři splňují a ještě přidávají něco navíc. Pověstnou jiskru a drive, které se dle mého nedají naučit. Pro smrtící kov musíte mít talent, stejně jako pro cokoliv jiného. VOMITHEIST přicházejí s prvním dlouhohrajícím albem a měl bych být trošku shovívavý. Jenže nemusím, pánové nahráli desku, za kterou by se nemuseli stydět ani staří mistři žánru. Já vím, nepřinášejí nic nového, ale na to si já nehraju. Pro mě je nejdůležitější, abych jim hudbu věřil a to se zde děje bezezbytku. "NekroFvneral" se ihned stalo mým průvodcem záhrobím. Rád a často jsem se k albu vracel. Čerstvá rána, vyříznutá přímo do kůže. Maso odpadávající od kostí. Stará, plesnivá kobka, hluboko pod zemí. Temnota a chlad. Riffy, které mě řežou jako ostrý skalpel, dunivé bicí a vokál bestie. Zombie se probudily a lezou ze shnilých hrobů. Smrt je při poslechu velmi blízko. Masakr v márnici! Zničující death metal, který rozdrtí všechny vaše kosti v těle!

Asphyx says:

A fresh wound, cut right into the skin. Flesh falling off the bone. An old, moldy dungeon, hidden deep underground. Dark and cold. And true, unadulterated death metal. A lady with a scythe woke me up in the middle of the night and took me to the catacombs. On the walls hung the tortured bodies of sinners. Their wailing echoed through the corridors, mixed with echoes from beyond the grave. I understood immediately. I'm right here, this is the place for me. For the old death metal dog. VOMITHEIST are from Switzerland, and they crush bones in exactly the way I like so much.

A black worm comes out of the white skull. Rot, madness, death. Darkness and coldness that immediately envelop you like a bloody mist. The gentlemen were loosely inspired by the North, if you like packs like CRAWL, FERAL, DISMEMBER, GRAVE, CARNAGE, AUTOPSY, ABSCESS, BLOODBATH, then you've come to the right place. Turn up the volume and lay in the old coffin!

I sift the dust of crushed bones between my fingers. "NekroFvneral" is an album that has an absolutely destructive effect on me. My brain is boiling and I feel like jumping into an old grave. Cover me with dirt and curse me! Just one thing I beg of you, I don't want no cross, and if I do, I don't want it upside down. I like to write about bands that can write good memorable songs. They have to rip my face to shreds, and I have to remember the themes. The Swiss accomplish all of this and add a little something extra. The proverbial sparkle and drive, which in my opinion can't be taught. You must have talent for death metal, just like anything else. VOMITHEIST come with their first full-length album, and I should be a bit lenient. But I don't have to be, the gentlemen have recorded a record that even the old masters of the genre would not be ashamed of. I know, they don't bring anything new, but that's not my game. The most important thing for me is to believe in their music and that is what happens here without fail. "NekroFvneral" immediately became my guide to the afterlife. I returned to the album often and gladly. A fresh wound, cut right into the skin. Flesh falling off the bone. An old, moldy dungeon, deep underground. Dark and cold. Riffs that cut me like a sharp scalpel, thunderous drums, and the vocals of a beast. Zombies awake and crawling out of rotten graves. Death is very close when you listen to it. Massacre in the morgue! Devastating death metal that will crush every bone in your body!

Track Listing-

1. Strangled by Entrails

2. Epidemic Disembowelment

3. Horrific Bloodshed

4. Morbid Decomposition

5. Putrefaktor

6. Symbiotic Putrefaction

7. Chapel of Abhorrent Reek and Festering Slime

8. Tormenting Fungal Infestation

9. Gut Asphyxiation

10. NekroFvneral

11. Carnivorous Cult

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Interview with death metal band from Switzerland - VOMITHEIST.

Answered Yannick Wöhrle (drums), thank you!

Translated Duzl, thank you!

Questions prepared Jakub Asphyx.

Ave VOMITHEIST! Greetings to the underground. I hope everything is fine with you. It should be because this year you have released a first long-play full-length album in your band's career. I have to admit it has literally blown my mind. It is dark, energic and as if it cuts by the sharp edge of the knife. I can hear from the record you did a really good job and you added a big portion of the talent, too. How do you perceive the new album in comparison to the previous work? Where did you want to move and in what are these two records different?

The new Songs are one or two steps forward in every case. The songs are better and more varied. After all those years we know each other better and the songwriting is more fluent. To be honest, there wasn’t a specific plan on how the album should sound. In the end, we just tried to write Death Metal Songs, that we like.

„NekroFvneral“ includes all attributes of good death metal. For me personally, it represents the record, which I really like to listen to. How did you produce it? How look the writing process of new material in the case of VOMITHEIST?

There are more or less two ways we write our songs. Mostly, one of us comes up with an idea for a riff or a build up for song. From there we start working around that idea until we have something that crushes or we have to admit its total crap and we ripp it to pieces. Sometimes it also happens more by accident while jaming and all of a sudden there is a part we really like and then we start working from there. Our own „quality test“ while we rehearse are the grimm expressions in our faces that show up when a new idea ripps! If that doesen’t happen, its probably not good enough.

Who is signed for mixing and mastering? I have to confirm that the sound literally kills. It keeps making me turn up the volume on the hi-fi tower. The sound is really harsh, raw and dark and animalistic at the same time. What studio did you record in and how did it all work?

The Album was recorded and mixed by Yvo Petrzilek at Verwaltzen Productions in Switzerland. As you can hear he did a really good job. At least we think so. We tried to record everything live and then just did a second run for guitar and bass with the idea that it should sound like you would experience it at one of our live shows.

After the mixing was done the files were sent to Trakworx Studios where they were mastered. All thogehter we are really satisfied with the reslut.

An important part and a kind of extra bonus for fans today is the physical LP. You will release the new album at Transcendig Obscurity Records, and it has a corpsy cover art. Who is the author? How did you choose the motif and how does it relate to the music at the record?

The artwork was designed by Aesthetisk Art. The guy behind it is a friend of ours and at the beginning we didn’t even know that he is such a talented artist. One day he offerd us that he would design a cover artwork for us so we just let him creat whatever his twisted mind could come up with and the artwork turnd out to be absolut sick! But he didn’t just deliver the artwork. He also desingnd the tracklist matching with the cover and added an absolut stunning shirt desing on top. The Artwork itself doesn‘t stand in a special relation to the music. Its just good death metal imagery wich fits perfect for to sound we creat.

I have been wandering the underground for over thirty years and I still go to Switzerland for music with certainty (CORONER, HELLHAMMER, CELTIC FROST, MESSIAH, CREMATION, REQUIEM). I think we have a similar nature and taste when it comes to metal. I like your bands a lot and I monitor your scene carefully. Maybe I envy you a little, because we only have a few death metal bands that are worth it. How do you explain that death metal are doing so well in your country? How do you perceive your scene, fans, labels?

Death metal has always been (with a view exceptions) an undergroud phenomenon. This is probaly why it works so well in Switzerland because our secene is quit small and doesen’t get any representation in public or even support from governmental funds. We have to keep our secene alive by ourselfs. Almost everyone we know within the scene plays in a band, organizes shows or even runs a small label. Alltogehter it makes our secene very lively and to see what other bands we know achive is a big motivation for ourself the keep working on our own musical abominations.

You play death metal influenced by, among other things, the old school. Today, the band can't avoid comparisons, but I would like to know how the idea to start VOMITHEIST was born, who was and is your metal idol? Where do you want to move your band? Are you attracted to large foreign festivals, for example, are you willing to go on tour with a more famous band?

So obviously, we like the old Swedish bands like Entombed and Dismember. The specific idea to do that Stokholm Sound was at a Grave Concert and also was heavy influented by Bloodbath. But of cours, there are other heavy influences like Autopsy, Obituary, Discharge, Morgoth, Nirvana 2002 and others.

We don’t have specific ideas about where to move our band, we just take step by step and see, what time brings. As the Cowboy-Dude in The Big Lebowski says; “Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes, well, the bear eats you”, so we take it as it comes. And of course, it would be great to play larger festivals and tour with more famous bands, who wouldn’t like that.

When I started my blog six years ago, I had a vision that I would try to support bands that are not so much popular, or they are lost in underground. To let the world knows about them. I think I'm doing quite well, at least according to the responses. How do you approach the promotion of your music? Do you rely upon the label or do you send the CDs for various reviews by yourself? For example, I buy albums that I really enjoy. What about you? Are you also fans who often support your colleagues? Do you go to concerts?

For „NekroFvneral“ we mainly rely on Transcending Obscurity Records. For our older records we sometimes worked with small promiton agencys, used the connections we have in our local scene or we just used the possibilitys of the internet to gain more attention for our releases.

And sure, we support our friends whenever possible. We buy their records, go to their shows and attend as many other shows as possbile even tough a thing called...jobs...prevents us to spend even more time in the scene.

On the one hand, today the new band has a lot of opportunities to make themselves more known, but on the other hand, there are a huge number of groups and the fans are getting lost in this big metal sea. A lot of people just download mp3s from the internet and instead of to visit the concert they prefer to spit poisonous saliva on Facebook. How do modern technologies affect you as VOMITHEIST? What do you think about downloading music, google metalists, streaming music, etc.?

Well there are pros and cons to this trend. The internet gives smaller bands the opportunity to spread their music around the world. The downside of that is, what you mentioned before, an overflow of bands where the fan can easily get lost. Of course we are using the newer platforms like bandcamp and spotify to spread our music, but as metal-fans we like vinyl a lot. Each of us owns a vinyl player and likes to buy vinyls instead of just listening to some random music playlists on spotify. Listening to playlists is cutting down your horizon of getting in contact with new music and new artists. We’re also very untalented when it comes to tenical stuff. We recorded the NekroFvneral-Demotape (its called „Sinister Leader Of The Vomit Cult) live with a taperecorder simply cause non of us knows, how to handel a modern recording programm on a computer. Of course that gave the demo its own old School vibe, which is, by the way, very cool.

I like to ask the musicians what death metal means to them. How would they define it, whether it is more the philosophy and lifestyle thing for them or "just" relaxation? What does it mean for you? How do you perceive and experience it?

Death Metal is an integral part of each our lives. Of course, that doesnt mean that we are walking around killing people, just cause its written in our lyrics. We just experience the music as very intense. We still love what we are doing even after 10 years of Vomitheist. In a world that wants you to behave like a proper „adult“ all the time it helps us to preserve the childish idiot in us, that just wants to drink beer and listen to Cannibal Corpse. At least a little bit.

Finally, a classic but important question. What is VOMITHEIST planning in the upcoming months? Where can we see you at the stage?

Next show to see us live would be the Transcending Obscurity Fest in Prag on the 5th and 5th of May and tow weeks later we have a small album release show in our hometown. Until then we are currently working on new songs which are planed to be released on our second full length sometimes in the future.

Thank you so much for the interview. I wish a lot of success to the new album and let the number of your fans expand as much as possible. I will look forward to seeing you somewhere live again. I wish you a lot of success both musically and personally. I'm going to push „NekroFvneral“ into my head again!

Thank you very much for the cool interview and your support, thats abspolutly awesome. Greetings to all Death Metal Fans out there. Cheers everyone.