V.E.I.N. zadebiutują w październiku

 

Today, Eternal Death sets October 14th as the international release date for the long-awaited debut album of America's V.E.I.N., Blood Oaths, on vinyl LP format.

As enigmatic and foully underground as it comes, V.E.I.N. was formed at some point during the new millennium by prolific underground veteran Death Fiend. While the man has played for a multitude of bands along the American East Coast, V.E.I.N. is meant to be its own entity - and one that's uncompromisingly singular and rudely transgressive in its vision. The ...into the Vein demo was released in 2013 on the cult No Visible Scars, and a handful of shows followed. A V.E.I.N. full-length has been brewing for a while, which is a story in itself...

At last, it is here, bearing the ominous title Blood Oaths. Hideous and hulking and massively hypnotic, on first listen do V.E.I.N. here exhibit traits of the bestial black metal idiom: gnawing surge, blood-gurgling intensity, minimal-is-maximal songwriting. Splitting hairs, perhaps, but Blood Oaths bears far more semblance to the old gods VON rather than all those who follow the oath of black blood: incessantly pounding mid-paced blastbeats, hypnotic repetition of simple-yet-powerful motifs, and bestial vocals echoing from the void all get warped and malformed with mesmerizing, malefic ease. Which is all to say that V.E.I.N. seeks the far (and frightening) corners of psychedelic experience, immersing themselves in a delirium of dread and utter madness. So, while Blood Oaths does maintain the martial hammering of so much bestial metal, the lysergic layering of haunting soundbites as well as torched-to-fuck FX brings a kaleidoscopic element into an otherwise-monochromatic artform. Or, perhaps this is the sound of bestial metal at its most smacked-out...

For those into the deviant side of bestial metal past and present - be it Nuclearhammer, Sect Pig, Canada's infamous Lust, England's late/great Swine, Havohej's EPs during the '90s, or especially the aforementioned VON before the embarrassing antics - prepare for heavy usage with V.E.I.N.'s Blood Oaths.

Become a heavy user with the brand-new track "Malign Blood Oath" HERE at Eternal Death's Bandcamp, where the album can also be preordered. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for V.E.I.N. (USA)'S Blood Oaths

1. Total Vascular Collapse

2. Malign Blood Oath

3. The Black Eye of Eibon

4. Banishment of Blood

5. L.S.D.

6. Sangre Libertad

7. Warlocks Witches and Demons

8. Bloodstained Symmetry