Rising from gaping craters, VadimVon have to be a destructive gale of almighty Death Metal to be noticed by iconic legends, Morbid Angel. Once a one-man proposal, this cosmic Death Metal sect now holds four members, Ikon V on gnashing growls, Sado-Golem on static strings and misanthropic mutterings, Red Magus on pummeling pulsations and Phobos on ivory incisors. The malevolence festering in chapels of ghouls and lion’s dens has now been unleashed and deemed ‘RiseKhaosInfernal.’
“Manifestation” starts the blood-letting with its cosmic assault of original Death Metal taking a modern approach: like Morbid Angel’s ‘Domination’ meets Dissection’s ‘Reinkaos,’ played by Immolation. The atmosphere is chokingly dense and, about three minutes in, comes a moment of guitar fiddling and hoarse whispers until shooting you right back into the frozen stratosphere. “Within the Flesh” lashes out a deeper wound with everything bigger and blacker. This two-minute phase still straddles both sides of the galaxy: the one filled with looping black holes and the one where you float about in a suspenseful dead darkness. Firing straight away, “King among Men” vibes with a guttural, Karl Sanders-esque vocal technique with galactic, Nile-y instrumentation that nips at the corners of VadimVon’s sound. “Empire of Lies” stands out with throat-gripping pugnacious vocals and floating guitars that swirl into the blender-beating drums. The mid-break is a sardonic sweetness, piecing together two raging storms.
The only real complaint is the production. The volume on a few tracks, most notably “Within the Flesh” and “Empire of Lies,” is emphatically different from the rest of the album. Basically, it means there will be some fussy volume adjustments made as you pop in ‘RiseKhaosInfernal.’ Not exactly as sit back and “welcome the impending outer-cosmic demise which awaits this Earth and the pathetic spindle which it clings onto” as it could be. However, that’s just a slothful outlook on VadimVon’s first full-length, ‘RiseKhaosInfernal,’ which is a great disc to turn to if you want your skull shattered by a tank-full of good old technical Death Metal ammo.
Be sure to catch VadimVon on tour with Death Metal heroes, Morbid Angel, on their Us tour in support of the new Morbid Angel album! Yes, now you have two albums and a ticket to buy!
