Vomit Forth – Terrified of God
Release Date: 11th October 2024
Label: Century Media
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Genre: Death Metal, Extreme Metal, Hardcore.
FFO: 200 Stab Wounds, Tribal gaze, Sanguisugabogg, Frozen Soul, Undeath.
Review By: Rick Farley
Formed in 2017, Connecticut’s agents of terror, Vomit Forth made their savageness felt in the always growing death metal world. Their visceral demo which quickly went on to be repackaged by Maggot Stomp as their debut LP, Northeastern Deprivation with two additional songs, showed a band on the verge of being a serious force to be reckoned with. The band followed their unsettling debut in 2022 with Seething Malevolence, released through, and still current label, Century Media Records. Both albums showing Vomit Forth’s raw, sick ability to write and perform devastating, metallic hardcore flavoured death metal that’s both terrifying and insanely catchy. 2024 brings us the bands most ambitious offering yet with Terrified of God. An album full of aggressive riff heavy, sonic brutality strapped to a nuclear missile aimed directly at your puny fucking soul.
Terrified of God wastes little time getting to its bone breaking ways with Victim Impact Statement. Churning, contorted waves of chuggy riffs, guitar squawks and piercing squeals come from guitarist Bailley as well as a nauseating dose of pure hooky violence. The cadence of the throaty harsh vocals gives off a hardcore vibe at times, but much more brutally impactful. Vocalist Kane brings a varied approach to his demonic vocals that range from high-pitched shrieks, growly yells to stomach turning lows. Beasting like a maniac, the vocals add disgusting personality to the already sadistic soundscape. The dark tinged Blood Soaked Death Dream adds menace to their angered steamrolling rhythm section. Drummer Luke and bassist Jeff set the heavy foundation for pulverizing everything into dust. Heavy as hell breakdown style riffs smothering your breath, while your lungs release every bit of air they have and collapse into nothingness. A relentless hostile pace and ultra violence continues with Fear of Retaliation and Rotting Wool, a one, two punch of thick low end, crunchy guitars, and pit friendly grooves. Closing track Salt rips out of the gate, grinding sharp riffs with angular precision. Atmospheric dark tones grate on your senses in the background, making this a perfect end to an incredibly intense record.
Thematically, Terrified of God focuses on the fact that humanity doesn’t know everything, we are flawed and often disgusting beings. We feel as if there are no consequences after death, besides how we have affected people near us during our time here.
“The fear, everyone feels it. Not a single person on earth lives without being Terrified of God at one point or another in their life.”
Terrified of God spits, snarls and pukes out pure sickening energy that will have you banging your head till your neck snaps in two. This record is not pushing new boundaries in the genre per se, but the band is unafraid to show their influences while expanding their music towards evolved sounds. Vomit Forth feel like a fresh breed of death metal, just bordering the line of old school and something that still sounds familiar, yet disgustingly modern. At just a little over a 25 runtime, shockingly for me, this works in its favour. I’m personally not a fan of overly short records, but this thing fucking rips all the way through. It goes fucking hard, so you don’t really notice the runtime. You’re left felling bruised, bloody, and broken. Get this in your ears.
(4 / 5)
