Vorare Stream The Drainage Rituals EP in Full; Out Today
Today marks the release date of Vorare‘s debut EP, The Drainage Rituals, and I assure you, however dark it is out when you’re reading these words, by the time you’re done listening, you’ll wish it was darker. The four-songer composed and executed by the Finnish-based entities known solely as EH and EV isn’t so much an EP in the traditional sense as it is a consuming excursion into experimentalist aural horror. Individual moments in “Neon Womb” or “Pyramidal Impasse” might hit with a vast spacious crawl that reminds of Khanate or might touch on industrialized tribalist beats, echoing out over subtly building currents of synth, not nearly as brutal as the vocal growls to come or the crash that accompanies, but seething, tense, cinematic, just the same.
The title of the release, The Drainage Rituals, may be a reference to self-harming if taken in the context of the cover, but divorced from that, the word ‘drainage’ alone brings to mind some kind of pus-filled infection being split open to spew its contagious nastiness, and yeah, that feels about right for the bombastic harshness of the semi-title-track “Drainage” and the upwardly swelling noise-static rumble of the finale “There is Nothing for Me Here.”
On a sheer listening level, Vorare are well and truly fucked. The Drainage Rituals unfolds its plumage in “Neon Womb” like some kind of emergent Guillermo Del Toro hellbird spreading knife-feathered wings, and the extremity of atmosphere is pervasive to a point of being willfully overwhelming. At 25 minutes, it is a difficult listen, and considering it is the first exploration by EH and EV, its torrential resentments seem to cascade with a depth of purpose beyond simply making the unsuspecting listener shit their pants.
In its most intense stretches — amid the echoing you’re-running-from-something-that’s-going-to-get-you thuds of “Pyramidal Impasse,” for example, or in the nigh-unlistenable culmination of “There is Nothing for Me Here” before the final sample affirms the title — The Drainage Rituals is likewise bitter and forceful, borderline invasive, but it never loses its ambience or its extremity no matter where the volume of an actual piece is at the time. To wit, as “Drainage” moves from its wash in the center into its drone-gurgling second half, the vision of being devoured is no less palpable. Some shit just sounds haunted. Some shit just sounds terrifying. That’s where we’re at.
As noted above, The Drainage Rituals is out today, so I’m not trying to get away with calling this a premiere or anything like that, but I’m happy to host a stream for any work that so boldly declares and manifests its intentions, however perverse those may be in this case.
Behold:
Vorare, The Drainage Rituals (2022)
VORARE is a new entity formed by two individuals destined to mold a spiritual and holistic aural and visual experience out of leanings falling to the spectrum of drone-doom, noise, industrial, and electronic music. The pair’s experimental tendencies first took shape in the form of an album recorded early 2022 that’s to be released on this summer. The Drainage Rituals acts as a later conceived catalyst and a thematic gateway to the act’s infernal and unsettling, noise-laden world, being released on the 20th May on digital and CD formats.
The Drainage Rituals, despite being rooted in the same framework as the upcoming album, differs from it by emphasizing vastly different aspects on the duo’s output. Being an aerial effort focusing on ambiance and atmosphere, spanning four tracks and over 25 minutes in length, The Drainage Rituals showcases VORARE’s boundary-pushing aesthetics in an overwhelming manner. The captivating and enthralling songs demonstrate the notion of man’s innermost void taking a palpable form. Delicate sound-design and brute force collide on the release in a way where it holds its listener’s emotions hostage, offering a wide array of facets to cling onto and lights the way to a plethora of secluded nooks in both musical as well as psychic contexts.
MIXING & MASTERING: SAMUEL VANEY | LEAD & SULFUR STUDIO
VORARE:
EH – EVERYTHING
EV – EVERYTHING
