VASTUM: San Fran Death Horde To Discharge Second LP Via 20 Buck Spin

Following a seemingly silent stretch over the past few months, VASTUM is preparing to discharge their atrocious sophomore LP this Autumn.

Once again the plodding, pulverization of this deviant San Franciscan VASTUM horde -- a pack of deviants hailing from such acts as Acephalix, Necrot, Hammers of Misfortune and other Bay Area underworld collectives -- will ooze forth via their 20 Buck Spin comrades, who exposed the band's penetrating mid-paced exploration of filthifying death tones and riffage, as well as the darker and lustful side of human nature, through their thundering 2011-released debut LP, Carnal Law. The newly-aborted follow-up, seeping in filth and fist-clenched lunacy, bears the title Patricidal Lust.

VASTUM's Patricidal Lust has been ripped from the muse's womb through turmoil and strife, reflected not only in the morbid hyper-realism of the album's content but in the making of the record itself which presented scenarios of devastating real life tragedy, numerous delays, departed members and a sense of frustration by all involved. It's an album born in pain. Nonetheless, the band's second full-length album is noticeably heavier, darker, more abusive and altogether more mentally calamitous than its predecessor Carnal Law.

Recorded with both Jeff Davis (R.I.P.) and later with Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios, Patricidal Lust has an atmosphere of eerie foreboding enshrouding the doomed death metal husk at its center; the cryptic dual vocal dynamic of Daniel Butler and Leila Abdul-Rauf acting as unreliable narrator on this journey through the body. The ghosts of Steer and Schuldiner echo in twisted half-remembered inference while the calculated, blunt rhythm section invoke abhorrent basement torture dungeon; captivity the only reality, death the only hope. Lyrically Patricidal Lust delves inwardly ever deeper into subject matter first seen on Carnal Law; the anguish and confusion associated with sexual abuse and incest and the blurry area where eroticism and madness vaporize into an unrecognizable fog of horror, the hellbound heart exposed.

Certain to leave a lasting impression, Patricial Lust lies at the core of obscene abominations too real for ordinary bands to pursue. Enter VASTUM's theatre bizarre.

Patricial Lust will see CD and digital release November 12th, with a vinyl edition, bearing alternate artwork, to follow soon after. Stay tuned for more info on the album in addition to new live actions and more from the VASTUM deviants in the coming weeks.

Patricial Lust Track Listing:

1. Seasons In The Claustrum (The Libidinal Spring)

2. Enigma Of Disgust

3. 3 A.M. In Agony

4. Incel

5. Patricidal Lust

6. Repulsive Arousal   

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VASTUM: Full Album Streaming Now At BrooklynVegan

BrooklynVegan is currently streaming VASTUM's entire debut full-length, Carnal Law! The crushing album will stream from now through the official release via 20 Buck Spin on Tuesday, May 31.

 

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Continuing to brutalize live audiences with their stripped-down and ultra-pulverizing tonal supremacy, VASTUM have confirmed more live actions throughout the Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest over the coming weeks, with more tour plans in the works to be announced shortly.

 

VASTUM Live Actions:

7/01/2011 The Know - Portland, OR w/ Atriarch, Murderess 

7/02/2011 Black Lodge - Seattle, WA w/ Ritual Necromancy, Anhedonist, Countdown to Armageddon

7/03/2011 Saratoga - Portland, OR w/ Knelt Rote, Negative Queen

 

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VASTUM Live Update; Interrogations & Coverage Of Crushing Debut Album Available

VASTUM are on the warpath! The Bay Area horde are being praised by old-school death metal fans throughout the underground media in response to their brutalizing debut full-length, Carnal Law, set for release via 20 Buck Spin on May 31.

Continuing to brutalize live audiences with their stripped-down and ultra-pulverizing tonal supremacy, VASTUM have confirmed more live actions throughout the Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest over the coming weeks, with more tour plans in the works to be announced shortly.

VASTUM Confirmed Rampages:

5/18/2011 Elbo Room - San Francisco, CA w/ Inquisition, Necrite

7/01/2011 The Know - Portland, OR w/ Atriarch, Murderess 

7/02/2011 Black Lodge - Seattle, WA w/ Ritual Necromancy, Anhedonist, Countdown to Armageddon

7/03/2011 Saratoga - Portland, OR w/ Knelt Rote, Negative Queen

VASTUM's thunderous, stripped-down attack produces some of the most wretched, dehumanizing, old-school death metal one can find on Carnal Law. Unifying musicians with current or past ties to Saros, Amber Asylum, Hammers of Misfortune, Infest and containing 3/4 of Acephalix' lineup, conceptually, the band's lyrical content explores dark themes of sexuality and psychic disfiguration in a more cerebral context, as one may find in the work of Georges Bataille or psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche. Frustration, pain, pleasure, confusion, depravity, death, life and isolation; the lines are blurred.

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"The distinct bass rumble you hear in the heaviest and best-recorded death metal is a constant. When the guitars reach for the high end for squealing leads or mournful melodies, they burrow through the muck and needle into your head. 8/10" - Decibel

"All semi-colourful, self-inflating journalistic metaphor falls by the wayside, leaving sturm und drang clamour and chaos that is Vastum’s core." - Zero Tolerance

"This is real, deeply (and putridly) dense death metal, not the shiny, tech-y breakdown-happy sort... as someone warned me before plopping it on for the first time, grab yourself a neck brace." - Stereogum

"A thick, organic production adds to the music's density, resulting in a crushing slab of darkened death metal. 4/5" - About.com

"Thanks to Vastum and a growing contingent in the primitivist movement, order is being restored with a pile of hacked limbs left behind." - Luminous Deluge

"...a majestically crust-caked call to arms for the fans of the gritty old school death metal atrocity to assemble bright and early on the front lines, ready to do nothing but kill." - Forbidden Magazine

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VASTUM Unleash New Track Via Stereogum

The name VASTUM is raging through the metal underground like hellfire right now, with the news of the San Francisco-area act's recent signing to the 20 Buck Spin label for the release of their Carnal Law debut this May still fresh. VASTUM's crushing death metal is crafted more in the ways of the early purveyors rather than retaining semblance to "Bay Area sound" clichés; their stripped-down attack will rip your face right off as the band prove with the thunderous midpaced stomp of the opening track from the album, "Primal Seduction," which Stereogum has graciously premiered to the public today. To be pummeled, click here.

Brand new visual evidence of VASTUM's raging live attack has just surfaced this week as well, in the form of some very ominous, black and white 8mm camera footage. Check out the footage at this location now!

The band are are currently plotting a Northwest US Summer tour and more, with details to be announced over the coming weeks. For now catch them randomly throughout their local stomping grounds.

VASTUM Live:

5/14/2011 Victory Warehouse - Oakland, CA w/ Dispirit, Anhedonist, Ealdath

VASTUM's sound permeates the most wretched, dehumanizing, old-school death metal might on Carnal Law. Culminating an arsenal of musicians with current or past ties to Acephalix, Saros, Amber Asylum, Hammers of Misfortune, Infest and more, but the band's attack is more crushing and potent than many contemporary acts flying the death metal banner.

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VASTUM: 20 Buck Spin To Release Debut From Bay Area Death Metal Outfit

Washington-based indie heavyweight 20 Buck Spin has acquired Bay Area death metal outfit VASTUM to their ever-expanding roster for the disbursement of band's debut full-length, Carnal Law, set for worldwide release May 31, 2011. All fans of the darkest and harshest realms of pure old-school Swedish death metal listen up; this one is for you.

While VASTUM are a fairly brand new name to the public, you've just been informed. Hailing from the underground music hotbed of California's notorious Bay Area, the band's sound permeates the most wretched, dehumanizing, true old-school death metal might on Carnal Law. VASTUM's lineup aligns an arsenal of tight-knit musicians with current or past ties to Acephalix, Saros, Amber Asylum, Hammers of Misfortune, Infest and more, but the band's stripped-down, gravedigging attack is more crushing and potent than many contemporary acts flying the death metal banner.

Conceptually, Carnal Law explores themes of sexuality and psychic disfiguration, not in the oft juvenile way associated with underground metal, but in the more cerebral context one finds in the work of Georges Bataille or psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche. Frustration, pain, pleasure, confusion, depravity, death, life and isolation; the lines are blurred. Check out the album art and more here.

Carnal Law Track List:

1. Primal Seduction
 2. Re-Member 
3. Devoid
 4. Umbra Interna
 5. Carnal Law 
6. Spirit Abused

While a newer name to the death metal multiverse, VASTUM sound every bit a twisted, seasoned band well-read in the genre’s strengths and weaknesses, and harness them at will toward their own Law.

Stay tuned for more news on VASTUM over the coming months.

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