### Vomit The Soul: Apostles of inexpression

#### 15/06/11 || The Duff

A further foray into the Italian brutal death metal scene has revealed Vomit the Soul, a rather average slam band with pedestrian dynamics, overall disheartening as that leaves only Putridity and Septycal Gorge to the country’s DM hopefuls if Grindethic’s recent signing of Indecent Excision doesn’t pan out as successfully as the taster track would suggest it able. Not that Vomit the Soul are a bad band, they have chops, but it feels like a one trick pony to me, tech that leads nowhere but towards the slam that has to be turned up full volume in order to be appreciated.

In my Septycal Gorge review, I likened Vomit the Soul to Devourment, but now that I think about it they’re more likely to remind me of Dying Fetus in that tech madness with no flow followed by sledgehammer-to-the-face subtlety, and I might add with a ham-fisted drummer. Even if you cut free the rope, get out of the 2×2 cage, knock out the basement window and escape staffmember Daemo’s crib you still got a fistful of Daemon seed in your hair; by the same token, doesn’t matter how well you can play your instruments, if the notes don’t gel excitingly and your chief appeal are the simple as tortoise-rape breakdown riffs of which there are a plague-number and of little variety at that, then it’s time to straighten out the matted and disheveled with a fine-toothed comb and possibly some Head and Shoulders.

With the album’s primary focus being heavy and slow, the production is going to suit; once more, as with fellow country-men Septycal Gorge, they allow clipping on certain riffs to make them bust out more, a stupid idea if ever there was one, but aside from this the guitars resonate deeply in an appropriate manner even if the tone is quite sickly. In short, Vomit the Soul are no seasoned songwriters and the chug gets real dull real fast if your frame of mind isn’t in the right place. They do seem to realize their limitations however, writing music accordingly hoping the fact they can’t write blisteringly complex makes them still relevant on some level, i.e. agonizingly slow.

- Information
- Released: 2009
- Label: Unique Leader
- Website: Vomit the Soul MySpace
- Band
- Max: guitars, vocals
- Andrea: bass
- Ycio: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. Prototypes of Values’ Incarnation
- 02.Self Perception Veil
- 03.Extirpated from Absurdity
- 04.Overcrowd
- 05.Apostles of Inexpression
- 06.Unrecognized Elements Presence
- 07.Decay of an Inviolable Dogma
- 08.Inconsistent Delta