Back in my high school years, I was turned onto the mainstream industrial canon (Nin, Marilyn Manson, Gravity Kills) by my older step-brother who wisely knew there was more to the world than nu-metal. But it was at the point that he started getting into more esoteric, “traditional” industrial (Velvet Acid Christ, Vnv Nation) that I went in a totally different direction; I became obsessed with digital hardcore, which came by an industrial-sounding aesthetic from the direction of punk, fusing molten, mutilated dance music with the obnoxiousness of punk turned to 11. Not that we didn’t share those obsessions but we had our respective specialties. Vampyre Anvil is somewhat of a marriage of those two obsessions and yet harkens back to those “mainstream” industrial icons whose music we both appreciated deeply.
This comes as no surprise; one half of Vampire Anvil is Jason Novak whose career in industrial music began...
This comes as no surprise; one half of Vampire Anvil is Jason Novak whose career in industrial music began...
- 4/1/2016
- by Chris Melkus
- Destroy the Brain
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