VOMIT FORTH
Vomit Forth is Kane (vocals), Bailey (guitar) and Luke (drums)
Northeast based agents of terror Vomit Forth are driven to create the most visceral death metal the world has ever experienced. Formed in 2017, Vomit Forth set out to champion their influences from Internal Bleeding and Suffocation to Deicide, while eschewing the overall genre expectations of death metal at the time. Vomit Forth broke out in 2018 with their demo, then teamed up with Maggot Stomp who packaged the offering plus two additional songs into the band’s debut LP, Northeastern Deprivation. The band followed it in 2022, joining their current label home Century Media Records to release their sophomore album Seething Malevolence. The lauded record demonstrated the band’s dedication to a truly terrifying and singular brand of death metal. Now the band is gearing up to release their most ambitious album yet, Terrified Of God.
While writing Terrified Of God, Vomit Forth had only one goal in mind – “To make the most unsettling, brutal, and scary death metal record of all time,” shares vocalist Kane Gelaznik. “We absolutely did that.”
In the deep winter of early 2024, the band headed into a cabin in the woods of New Jersey with Randy Leboeuf who recorded, mixed, mastered and produced the album. The month-long recording process led to twelve panic-stricken tracks where every riff, drum fill, and lyric leaves a footprint. The album opens with “Victim Impact Statement,” a two-minute long frenzy that immediately pinpoints Terrified Of God as an outlet for aggression. Early single “Blood Soaked Death Dream” is a relentless masterclass in darkness as the song hits hard with churning riffs and a guttural vocal that is as anguished as it is angry. The dynamic vocal delivery continues on “Negative Penance” as Gelaznik displays his ability to easily shift between throaty vocals, curdling squeals, and a more direct delivery. Vomit Forth opted out of making title track “Terrified Of God” the centerpiece, taking a bold move in having it as a 43 second interlude and it works. Things instantly pick back up with the one-two punch of “Fear of Retaliation” and “Rotting Wool,” both a masterclass in sonic brutality. The album ends with “Salt”, focused on “how we will do anything to try and stop our inner pain, but it will really only end in death.” The last lines of the powerful track recite “If I turn my back on it all, am I the one who’s Terrified Of God?”, leaving a fitting conclusion to the introspective album.
On the record’s themes, Gelaznik expands:
“The biggest thing I want to get across with this record and that humanity doesn’t know everything. We are flawed, and in a lot of ways disgusting. We act like we aren’t afraid of what happens after we die. I know most people like to think nothing happens and we just conduct heat. That there’s no consequence other than how we effect other people during our time here, but I know there’s a hint of fear in the back of everyone’s mind. Everyone feels it. Not a single person on this earth lives without being Terrified of God at one point or another in their life. That’s what the record is about.”
A willingness to explore and incorporate influences from across a wide sonic landscape has always set Vomit Forth apart from their metal peers, and Terrified Of God is here to solidify the band as a mainstay act in the metal community. The band’s live show is just as punishing as the record, and with an upcoming tour supporting The Black Dahlia Murder and Dying Fetus, more audiences will witness Vomit Forth’s violent attack.
As for the goal to create the most unsettling, brutal and scary death metal record of all time? Vomit Forth surpasses it with Terrified Of God.
And for what’s next? Gelaznik simply states, “We want to change the game as far as metal is concerned and set the new standard.”