Ventenner - Distorture (Sonic Fire Records)
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| Ventenner - Distorture |
Are you ready for some dark, oil
covered rock with an industrial tint and some seriously heavy boots? Ah go on,
you know you want to. It'll be fun, I promise. Quartet Ventenner have a whole
new album for your enjoyment and it all kicks off with 'Rise', a song that is
somewhere between Depeche Mode and Tool as well as possibly being the darkest
start to an album I've heard in a very long time. 'Six Blood' is up next,
continuing the doomy theme with some industrial rhythms and desperate, almost
tortured vocals before 'Wave' swaggers in to the room in slow motion looking
like an extra from the Matrix as imagined by Tarantino in one of his darker
moods. The drums that herald 'Unaffected' are of Viking origins but the song
itself is more like Nirvana or System Of A Down at its heart.
Let's face it, this is not music that's ever
going to trouble the Top 40 or get covered on the X Factor by a 17 year old boy
with acne and a sob story. What this is going to do, however, is allow you
explore all those dark places in your mind and your soul that you don't have
time to recognise while you're queuing to pay for your cheese sandwich in
Tesco. Album title track 'Distorture' is up next, all Black Rebel Motorcycle
Club riffs and atmosphere before 'Skin Ritual' begins like the Cooper Temple
Clause with a darker heart and retains a malevolent heart throughout. 'Begin
Again' is the soundtrack to the sunrise on the day of a battle to save planet
earth while 'Metacell' is a full on, diesel fuellled, snarling beast of a song
that will chew you up and spit you out before you have time to form an opinion
on it. The industrial swirl and churn of 'Fallout' is the stuff of dark rock
fantasies and just makes me want walk everywhere in entirely black clothing
with a look that says "I enjoy chaos" on my face. I also want to wear
an eye patch. Don't judge me.
As album's go this is an
absolutely huge slab of rock in every sense of the word and I like what I see chiselled
in to its weather worn face. The final section begins with 'Cast', a track that
is more about atmosphere than it is about a song and could easily feature on
the soundtrack to a bloodily violent computer game. 'Undone' has a funereal
tone to it while 'Shade' builds in to a window shattering, ear bleeding climax.
Final track 'House Of Ten' is what's left when all the good in the world has
been destroyed and the devil is left playing Jenga with Simon Cowell and Piers
Morgan. So go on, indulge your dark side and let this album seep in to your
soul while you're sleeping. You might just like it..you might just love it.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/Ventenner?fref=ts
Watch the video for 'Six Blood': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXnVoLFuktQ