Vomir — Cloîtrez Et Tuez Vous Tous
The CD comes in a mini gatefold, and this takes in monochrome artwork. The front & back covers features a strange statue or monument-like structure- which is seemingly made out of draped grey sheets, metal poles, & possible lines if barbed wire. And inside the albums title is in grim gothic text, there's a head dressed in leather bondage mask, and four nails.
The single hour-long track is self-titled, and this roughly translates to Cloitrez And Kill You All. And as we’ve come to expect from this project the flow of the track here is unstoppable & firm in its feel. Though I’d say it sounds on the whole slightly cleaner & less crude in its sound & production, though this is still extremely dense & brain pummelling wall matter.
The ‘wall’ brings together the following elements: A rapid- yet blunt gallop, a lashing & slightly rapidly selection of bubbling tones, distant rushing & juddering sub-tones, and some very subtle spurting tones. The whole thing sounds like one's head is been continually held under a constant rushing ice cold tap in a vast steel & stained bath- as the tones really numb you in submission. I’d say compared with some of Vomir’s past releases there is a nice balance of both tonal clarity, yet also rushing numbness- which is a difficult thing to carry off-so this shows his mastery of the wall-form
Cloîtrez Et Tuez Vous Tous is a wonderfully numbing, coldly un-relenting, and totally nihilistic submersion in HNW craft. Now some eleven years into its lifetime the Vomir project still remains as intense-yet-brutally invigorating as it ever was.