NEWS: This is a new press photo promo picture, yay, me likes. So what is new? I am working on the next lp now. Going back to the old set up and the old mode of working. I wrote a really good insight on how VAC production works past and present Click Here to read VAC PRODUCTION PAST VS PRESENT. I am sick of the slow way of working. Going back to the fast way, buying back all the gear I used on calling of the dead, and fun with knives(emu e6400 ultra, jp-8080, virus a, trinity rack, nord lead 2 rack, yamaha an1x, mopho. I am selling a few synths, my, s770 sampler, roland sh-2, future retro revolution and my novation remote 61 mk1 keyboard controller. I am also selling my converters my Fireface 800(if you are interested in any of these, comment) I am re-making some old songs off of oblivion interface(the very first unreleased VAC LP), I have about 4 songs underway that are new. I know that I want to make a more harsh dance record, with varied elements. I am more angry than sad now. I hope I can get another LP finished over the winter. After the next lp, I think a greatest hits is in order. I really want to make a great lp that is more complex. My old gear will work I bet. Wish me luck. This banner code is for the horizontal and verticle versions, please add these to your blogs, help me spread the word about the new lp and promote it, thanks:
VAC News: Talked to Dave over at metropolis a couple of days ago, told me the covenant shows on the west coast did well. He thinks a mini west coast tour in the spring is in order for VAC. He thinks it would do well. I am working on maybe trying to make this a reality. Wish us luck. I am already writing new material for the next lp, buying some new stuff, going to check out some new gear and review it and use it on the new LP. I will post that stuff here on the VAC site when I get to it.
The new LP is getting a great response from some. Way more positive than negative so far. I think a lot of new people will really be into this VAC record. I think this record will bring new fans. Some people are having a hard time with the acoustic guitars, mostly because they do not listen to the dots or death in june like I do so they have no idea that those are some of my biggest influences. All is good though. I hope people will pay for it, if they don’t I hope they donate money instead. I will put up a donate money button for all you pirates who feel guilty and don’t want to give to the stores or the labels :) LOL please, I need it, times are really tough.
You can now buy the new much anticipated release “The Art of Breaking Apart” from Velvet Acid Christ. Click here for mp3’s. Click Here For Audio CD. This time Velvet Acid Christ refines their sound, bringing back a more polished guitar sound from the BTE2 aka FATE era of VAC Mixing that together with Fun With Knives and Twisted Though Generator. Click Here to Listen to “BLACK RAINBOWS”. Click Here to listen to “Caustic Disco”. Songs like “Black Rainbows, Killing a Stranger, The Art of Breaking Apart, Phucked up Phreak” really prove that VAC is able to make dark guitar tracks that can appeal to a broad audience even HIM and AFI fans. Also songs like “Caustic Disco, Tripped Out & Vaporized” Prove that VAC is still a force in the EBM Gothic Industrial Night Club Scene. If you like Juno Reactor, Astral Projection, HIM, AFI, Death In June, The Cure, Nitzer Ebb, Front 242, Wumpscut, Haujobb, Kmfdm, Skinny Puppy, Ministry, Meat Beat Manifesto, Mindless Faith, Covenant This new Velvet Acid Christ LP will appeal to you. The production and sound quality has evolved. The Vocals are more polished and present and this time there are more clean vocals than distorted vocals. The songs are simple, catchy and memorable. Heavy, Emotional, and Real. No Autotune vocal processing was used, no detuned trance leads. The music was played live in the studio and has a lot more soul this time around. This is what the scene needed, something diverse and out of the mold. BELOW: Desktop Wallpaper. Rick Click and save as to download or click on images below to view.
Okay, Ok. I am working on the Velvet Acid Christ E-card for the metropolis mailing list. I am also working on a web page that will be devoted to the new LP like the E-card. With one page and links to every podcast, a lp sampler mp3 file, one music video I have done, and information about what songs go best on radio and the club, kind of like a virtual one sheet for the net. I hope to get that done in the next couple of days. The LP comes out in a few days on OCT 27th. So Excited, the lp is a dream of what I wanted VAC to be like in the beginning. A rock act that is like the pink dots and the cure with more edge. Something accessible to people who like peter murphy and old 80s goth and new stuff like HIM and She Wants Revenge. Still that old fun with knives and TTG vibe is alive in the electronic songs with a more refined simple structure. I really like it.
Above is a new press photo i made :). I am working on more photos with todd. They will be more artistic and weird that most standard bland press photos. I have gotten 2 of the remixes back for the Caustic Disco single which I hope to have done in the next couple of weeks. Mindless Faith(this one is a club killer, so bad ass), and The Twilight Garden(todd’s band) remix which is really musical and extended. Like em both. Krztov and Kyle are working on theirs, and it sounds good so far as well. I have yet to hear the Kalte Farben mix. There will be 2 b-sides as well. Anyway, You can Click Here to listen to clips of the new LP. I also just interviewed SNOG – BLACK LUNG for Electric Deth Trip Media and Vampire Freaks Click here to read the Snog Interview. Thats all for now. Also this is funny:
Welcome to planet TOILET. If you want to know where my hate of mankind has come from look no further. It is this, pollution, slob mentality, the evil of enslaving other humans, animals and nature at whim, showing no respect for the earth. The egoist blood lust for power, status and capital while shitting chemical run off, dumping, trash, plastic, prescription drugs, oils, gas, you name it in every corner of the earth. All hail the industrial revolution.
Most of you are completely oblivious to the pure amount of chemicals that are being dumped and put into food, and in our lakes, rivers, and streams. Run off from live stock that are pumped full of drugs and chemicals.
I make CDs which are plastic, and deep down inside it tears at me, because of how much pollution I alone have caused by being a apart of this music industry. It pains me to know that I myself have been guilty of this crime even though I try to recycle and be green.
After learning about all this pollution, how the animals are eating it, and plastic is turning all mammals into sperm less wonders, soon animals will become extinct because of the estrogen mimicking properties of plastics.
Men on this planet have tits now. Yes, plastics are to blame, as are foods like bread and potatoes when cooked turn into glue and plastic. Even the plastic water bottles. Wonder why there is so much Attention deficit disorder, or autism in children? PLASTIC ANYONE?
After learning the extent of the pollution on our mother earth, I have officially given up on any kind of plausible future for mankind. The animals will disappear so will the plants. Welcome to MARS. It’s happening now. Congratulations industrialist capitalism, you have scourge the earth more than any other form of social order to ever precede it.
The super droughts in Australia will soon be coming to california. The above picture is what it looks like. If you don’t think this is real, think again, the media has been trying to hide this from you for a long time.
When I got into industrial music long ago, this was the main theme from bands like skinny puppy(shoreline poison), and ministry(breathe you fucker) and Snog(the human germ). I was depressed then with what I knew of about pollution. Now, it is 10 times worse than then. No one is bitching about it or talking about it in our scene any more and it makes me sick to see how un political this scene has become. It’s all about goth sex and clothing and fetish bullshit. NO longer about veganism, saving the earth and rebelling against the industrial revolution like the old industrial music was. The world makes me sick. About as deep as it gets now days in our scene are bullshit ego philosophy wanna bes and it rhymes with birds and bees. A planted full of filthy fucking slobs who cannot even pick up the mess they make in nature. FUCK YOU MANKIND. YES, I INCLUDE MYSELF IN THIS.
This song is on the up coming “The Art of Breaking Apart” LP that is coming out on OCT 27 2009. You can pre order by Clicking Here.
Do not worry, this is only how 1 half of the lp sounds, The other half sounds like TTG meets Fun With Knives!!! So we have this kind of music mixed with club music on the LP.
I love black rainbows, sure it’s kind of dark pop, but it’s catchy, and shows a new side of me. Hope you think so as well.
UPDATE: I’m so happy with the internet response to this song now.
I put so much heart and soul into it, the main hook, i wrote when i was a kid and never used it, and i finally made a song out of it.
I finally showed that I am a musician who can play instruments like my idols did.
I really love this song personally, I can listen to it over and over. I feel that way about most of the songs on the new lp. I have been listening to it non stop since I completed it, like every day since when i run errands, and I am not sick of it, or finding faults with it like i have my last couple of releases.
I really feel confident about this! I hope this gets big, I think it’s a great song that can appeal to a lot of people. It has heart and soul and is very sincere.
November 15th, 2009 by Hexfix93
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