Comments on: Vac news, June 15th 2009.

By: ViddyDrone

ViddyDrone — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:45:05 +0000

untouchable_888,
could you imagine VAC’s electronics through a decent speaker set, pressed on VINYL? I think “there is no god” would translate really well; the vinyl would carry it and add resonance, I think. Same goes for “Phucking Phreak.” I also feel that the natural fuzziness of vinyl would compliment “Discolored Eyes” and make it heavier sounding. The drum has a lot of gain, and I feel that vinyl makes that sound really heavy (try old thrash metal vinyls). Plus the echoing vocals would probably gather something too. I haven’t heard too many electronic bands on vinyl, being more of a metalhead than a rivethead mostly, but there is much potential, especially in a stripped down style.
Enough rant. Thoughts?

By: untouchable_888

untouchable_888 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:13:28 +0000

yeah a record would be awesome. i would buy vinyl.

By: ViddyDrone

ViddyDrone — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:45:34 +0000

Thanks for the reply, I am yet more excited to hear this epic! VAC does horror movie soundtrack stuff. I’m pretty sure that couldn’t sound more enticing. It seems I misinterpreted your direction with this album. You need a name that is more terminal, more final and crushing, something that summons the impression of a void. Something about degradation and the universal chaos. Something like “The Absence In (or of) Inevitability” (except a better title), maybe? I think when you are brainstorming for the title you should look for words about finality and inescapability. Maybe look up root words for ‘absolute’ and ‘cancer’ maybe latin origins, give it a predicted unavoidable apocalyptic feel perhaps?
Also, weren’t you in a band called ‘Vortex’ before VAC & Toxic Coma? Maybe that title should be resurrected in some way?

Anyway, name or no name I will be buying this album immediately upon release!!!!
Any chance of a vinyl version? Metropolis has been doing that lately, that is, if you plan on sticking with them.

By: magenticka

magenticka — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:25:39 +0000

I can’t wait…I love the way the way you’ve described the album.

By: jaded rabies

jaded rabies — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:53:49 +0000

one step closer for us getting to hear the new album! excited!

By: Hexfix93

Hexfix93 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:39:53 +0000

The truth is, the lp is about the universal doom. Like the blackness of the big rip theory, how nothing stays together long, everything is temporary, everything falls apart, health, love, family, teeth, friends, love, hate, everything breaks down. All the heat in the universe burns out and all that is left is the freezing cold separated dark mass of nothingness. The lp is about the process of this. That is the theme of it. Everything in the universe becoming darkness, the big freeze, the big nothingness.

By: Hexfix93

Hexfix93 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:37:23 +0000

Killing a stranger, i played it for a few people, it has soft emotional vocals, i sing well on it, the best i have ever done clean. The music is like this sad film score/radio track. It has dynamics, like the chorus is this wall of sound, and the in between verse is like this suspended pool of water. I love it. It could fit into a james bond film, or a horror film, i’m not kidding.

By: ViddyDrone

ViddyDrone — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:25:49 +0000

P.S. as a possible title for the album, try out “Anchorite” or “Anchoritia,” the process of being an anchorite, or one who separates themselves from the world for religious reasons or beliefs. It’s archaic and fits the description of the album you’ve proposed here, I feel. I discovered the word when I began some research on Clive Barker’s Hellraiser and found that ‘Cenobite’ is actually a term for a person that belongs to a religious community, with ‘anchorite’ being its antonym.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorite

Good luck on the last leg of production!

P.S.S. my comments on ‘Fade Away’ also go for ‘Pain’ whose drum beat reminds me of something Dr. Avalanche would play… :)

By: ViddyDrone

ViddyDrone — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:15:40 +0000

I like the split website design, it should work out well, I think: VAC news here, your other thoughts there with no compromise to either or muddling between.

I am VERY excited about the new album. Is the track “Killing a Stranger” a(n) homage to either the Cure (band) or The Stranger (novel)?

In any case the stripped down raw sound should be very exciting. The emotions will run through and I can’t wait to connect to that. I always felt that the songs with the cleaner vocals were my favorites. Take the end of ‘Fade Away’ as an example. The vocals were a tad cleaner and the emotion really blared through which has allowed me to connect deeply with that track, the pain is there and I feel like, “this artist understands, he feels what I have felt; he knows lonliness and isolation”

By: deadsoul

deadsoul — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:09:06 +0000

wow, things are coming together.
good idea to split media stuff from vac.
maybe do a $0.99 type of thing for the drop track?
i look forward to the album release :)