Vape Warlök Post “U.S.S. (Under Satan’s Spell)” Video; Inhale Death EP Out Tomorrow
Based, according to them, in Greenland and proffering three ready-to-be-called-slabs tracks of crusty, sludgy stoner fuckall, Vape Warlök will release their debut EP, Inhale Death, tomorrow. The release tops 21 minutes of huge, willfully-ugly tonality, the bass and guitar finding only so much room to breathe as to cast a dank psychedelia, stoned to the nines in leadoff “Orbital Cube” while vocals gurgle beneath, more death metal than not, but not really death metal. There’s backward guitar, a sample here and there, but the primary factor is the resin-coated lumber of the riff itself, which makes no bones about its sense of ritual worship at altars weedian and distorted. It’s the only song on Inhale Death under seven minutes long, and you just nod the whole time and that’s all you need. One gets the sense the band are doing the same.
Samples and synth add breadth, but the overriding impression Vape Warlök make moves air with its raw-captured lumber, giving the EP a demo sensibility as “Orbital Cube” breaks down into silence before giving over to the sample at the start of the title-track, which proceeds (the weedian, Nazareth) into even nastier, harsher sludge, like some kind of mega-Bongzilla, unbridled in its density and unwilling to move off its central figure with a refusal that feels as righteous as it does stoned. There is another riff in “Inhale Death,” ultimately, but let’s not hold that against it. Something has to set up the gnashing-teeth shred solo that will eventually return to shred the song apart. That leads eventually to the sample at the start of “U.S.S. (Under Satan’s Spell),” which is both the most active and the most complex of the three tracks. That backwards guitar, the relatively speedier chug, and the descent into channel-swapping narcotic haze metal, synth, chanting and noise takes on an atmospheric purpose of its own, but in wrapping the EP, it brings a new degree to the brain-numbing effect of the bludgeoning riffery. This is extreme music.
Mind you I don’t know and won’t make suppositions about the lifestyles of any of the three members involved in the band, but for a group whose status goal was the “dankest, skunkiest, stickiest, stinkiest stoner metal around,” as they say, then they’re off to a good start. I’d take a tape of this any day of the week. The louder you listen, the more consuming it gets, but one way or the other, Vape Warlök harness brutality in the name of cannabinoid trance. This is their first EP, and it is indeed stank as all anything. May they continue to be as they move inexorably, probably crawlingly, forward.
The clip for “U.S.S. (Under Satan’s Spell)” would be a good projection for a live show.
Enjoy:
Vape Warlök, “U.S.S. (Under Satan’s Spell)” official video
Hello again! We are Vape Warlök. We love weed and Satan.
We told you last week about our EP, “Inhale Death,” which we’ll unleash like a suffocating cloud of apple-scented THC-smog on Friday, 3rd June, which is right around the corner.
But what we didn’t mention is that we also have a VIDEO for the song U.S.S. (Under Satan’s Spell) which you can view at the link below.
We are Vape Warlök. We love weed and Satan. And we hope you have a wonderful week.
“INHALE DEATH” releases 3rd June, 2022 on Bandcamp (Bandcamp Friday!) and all the usual DSPs. If you smoke weed make sure to do so immediately before listening, and listen loud on proper speakers or quality headphones! There is far too much low end on these recordings for cell phone speakers, your phone will explode and it won’t be our fault.
Our modus operandi with this project — our raison d’être — was to create the dankest, skunkiest, stickiest, stinkiest stoner metal around.
We honor the path blazed by our progenitors. We honor Electric Wizard, Iron Monkey, Bongzilla, Sons of Otis, and of course the alpha and omega — Black Sabbath and Sleep. We honor those before us who have dropped out of life, bong in hand, to follow the smoke to the riff-filled land.
Vape Warlök is:
“Baron” Georg von Traphaus – guitar, vocals
Alyster “Smoke” Kraken – bass, synthesizers
“Mad” Abdul Alhazred – drums, sampler
