Vultures - Vultures [Self Release] CDS

Grating futuristic sound-scrapes delivered with a sledge hammer style of programming identifies
Vulture's debut. This is abrasive industrial from Israel full of angst and shredding sounds
combining analog electronics, distorted guitars and vocals in the vein of Cubanate meets
Skinny Puppy and Psychopomps. The songs have a common skeletal fabric of hardcore Euro-techno,
fleshed with heavily gated and sampled guitars compressed to the density of lead fists that
pound upon the speakers. Have you ever looked out the window of a plane just as your flight is
about to taxi to the tarmac on an overcast evening? Storm clouds gather overhead, a fork of
lightning in the distance and you know you are in for one hell of a ride but you're just not
sure how intense it will get. Well you might well have just boarded the flight to the tune of
the Vultures opening track Internal Plea and you have that same feeling. The hardcore kik drum
hints at what is to creep up and shake you later on. A quick black and white memory may flash
before you of Frankenstein's laboratory equipment which introduces Vulture's Splendor, a quirky
synth line which gradually grooves into one of the more straight dance floor type stomps of the
CD. In the Head could be the electronic calm before the thunderstorm. The vocalist Rani summons
the song from the pit of industrial hell and it rises gradually as a servant to his
intimidation. The guitar punches an ominous chord trance that takes hold of you, and just as
you get hooked the song fades agonisingly back into the darkness. Take a breath now as
it probably will be the first and last gasp of air you have a chance to take before the end.
Examine [Datach'i Remix] is the final track and Vulture have taken this one to the chop shop,
filing the serial numbers off, and have remorselessly panel beaten it into a cacophony of noise
and guitar driven rhythmic beats. There is only 4 songs on this CD and it would be interesting
to hear what is lurking in the shadows for another release. This is a pantomime of angry noise
monster stuff with no middle ground - play it loud.

- Stephen Connolly