{"id":791907,"date":"2019-01-10T09:16:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T16:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=777034"},"modified":"2019-01-10T09:16:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T16:16:37","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-vltimas-total-destroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-vltimas-total-destroy\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Vltimas, \u2018Total Destroy!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/VLTIMAS-02-TinaK.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><span>Once upon a time, former Morbid Angel frontman David Vincent was a death-metal rock star.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On subgenre-defining albums like 1993\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/morbid-angels-covenant-how-the-bands-major-label-debut-raised-the-bar-for-extreme-metal-665990\/\"><em>Covenant<\/em><\/a>, his bestial roar \u2014 \u201cWas that a bear?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oidCSBMsaR0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Butt-Head quipped<\/a> upon viewing the video for that LP\u2019s closing track \u201cGod of Emptiness\u201d \u2014 and sinister charisma made an unforgettable impression.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But ever since his initial exit from that group in 1996, Vincent die-hards have anxiously awaited a worthy follow-up. His work in S&amp;M-themed industrial-metal outfit the Genitorturers flew mostly under the radar; Morbid Angel\u2019s techno-infused 2011 LP <em>Illud Divinum Insanus<\/em>, issued after Vincent\u2019s return to the band seven years prior, landed with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metalsucks.net\/2011\/06\/07\/illud-divinum-insanus-or-the-art-of-falling-on-your-face\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">resounding thud<\/a>; and a surprisingly legit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tQysB8XLtGg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">2017 country single<\/a> (yes, you read that right) put his formidable pipes to very different use. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>So for fans, there\u2019s a lot riding on <em>Something Wicked Marches In<\/em>, the upcoming debut from new Vincent-fronted supergroup Vltimas. The band\u2019s two other members also bring serious underground cred to the table. Guitarist Rune Eriksen formerly played in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/mayhems-long-dark-road-to-reviving-a-black-metal-classic-129097\/\">Mayhem<\/a>, during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/mayhem-plot-remastered-grand-declaration-of-war-reissue-735869\/\">phase<\/a> when the Norwegian black-metal heavyweights made some of their most bizarre and challenging LPs, and now works with fellow veterans Aura Noir, among others. Drummer Flo Mounier co-founded Cryptopsy, a Montreal death-metal institution known for outrageous speed and technicality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iKBe-KFpmS8?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>If the Vltimas tracks revealed so far aren\u2019t necessarily surprising, they\u2019re pretty damn satisfying, likely Vincent\u2019s strongest material in more than 20 years. New single \u201cTotal Destroy!\u201d kicks off with a rampaging, blast-beat-driven riff reminiscent of early-2000s Mayhem, before segueing into a thrashy verse that harks back to Morbid Angel\u2019s streamlined 1995 classic <em>Domination<\/em>. Returning to his trademark lyrical fixations of chaos and armageddon, Vincent growls\u00a0<\/span><span>out what sound like lines from a diabolical sermon: \u201cThe dark days on horizon\/The monsters pull my strings\/And I in turn spew madness\/Until the hell choir sings.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Vincent\u2019s vintage delivery was all about raw aggression; here, he almost sounds like he\u2019s having fun with his words, throwing in a hint of dramatic relish and even hints of a stagy Eastern European accent. It\u2019s a strange tactic, but it suits the music\u2019s unapologetically over-the-top might. Eriksen and Mounier match him with intensity and imagination throughout the excellently produced track (listen for the guitarist\u2019s outlandish, ear-catching solo around the halfway mark), the three musicians from different wings of the metal underground aligning with impressive focus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Morbid Angel themselves made an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/20-best-metal-albums-of-2017-196307\/morbid-angel-kingdoms-disdained-197692\/\">impressive, Vincent-less comeback<\/a> in 2017; the singer countered by forming I Am Morbid, a self-tribute band of sorts that performs the band\u2019s early material on the road. (Former Morbid drummer Pete Sandoval is back in action too, having resurrected his old grindcore band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/morbid-angel-drummer-pete-sandoval-terrorizer-caustic-attack-731298\/\">Terrorizer<\/a>.) But from what we\u2019re hearing,\u00a0<em>Something Wicked Marches In,<\/em> out March 29th,\u00a0could come even closer to recapturing the spirit that made that band\u2019s early material so compelling. We can\u2019t wait to hear more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/morbid-angel-david-vincent-vltimas-song-mayhem-cryptopsy-777034\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, former Morbid Angel frontman David Vincent was a death-metal rock star.\u00a0 On subgenre-defining albums like 1993\u2019s Covenant, his bestial roar \u2014 \u201cWas that a bear?\u201d Butt-Head quipped upon viewing the video for that LP\u2019s closing track \u201cGod of Emptiness\u201d \u2014 and sinister charisma made an unforgettable impression. But ever since his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-791907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 07:35:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}