Velvet Acid Christ - The Church of Acid
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Artist: Velvet Acid ChristEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-11-11
Music Label: Pendragon Records
Soundtracks:
- Hell One
- Let's Kill All These Motherfuckers
- Hell Two
- Hullucinagene
- We Have to See We Have to Know
- Repulsive
- Sex Disease
- Vaginismus
- Mental Depression
- Dead Flesh
- Pain
- Fade Away
Music reviews of The Church of Acid
Music Review: I Never Wanted to Be Around You + Your False Romantic State
Rating: 5 Stars
When Velvet Acid Christ pumps into my bloodstream, I still get a jolt because they were something shocking when they began circulating and I like that. They don't come across as a band that overtly mourns itself without lashing out, and they don't come across with some cuddly little voxed message wrapped in their EBM. They're actually one of the more "in your face" ideologists when it comes to spitting in the eyes of people limping around in this broken playpen we call democracy with their blinders on, and they do it with a "maybe I should kill you" attached to so many of the statements. The works take time to spit in the face of blind youth-culture that flocks to clubs while ignoring the world around them, in the face of governments that bind our hands and lie to us, and it seethes.
And I like seething.
Church of Acid is an album with all the trimming that VAC listeners should enjoy. In fact, I'd say that a few things are different in it than other (later) VAC albums because the vocals aren't always voxed and that lets emotion come out in different fashions, but the formula still stays the same. Humanity, the notion, is a disease and one that could be flushed down its own cosmetically-corrupted toilet, and that the world is diseased and rotting as well. The album starts out with that socially viable message, with the "Hell One" introduction pointing a finger and with "did you ever f---ing care? Liar!" and letting the album drift from there. "Let's kill all these m-therf---ers" is a nice example of political landscaping, touting how we're "killing everything in the name of democracy," and a lovely reaction to governmental exploitation in a nice "get the f--k out of my face, I'll kill you in a second." Mmmm. It also has a catchy beat, and that's delicious. Skippy around, I'm partial to "Hallucinagene" because it is murder personified (graphic rejection of love via a 12 gauge shotgun), "Dead Flesh" because it speaks on the hypocrisy of people and their nearsightedness when it comes to "saving animals" versus "social show-n-tell," and I like the way "fade Away" leaves us with a little "life is no fantasy there, no dream" flavor.
If you aren't familiar with VAC, this isn't "love songs" volume one and it doesn't paint a happy place for your mind to run to. The earlier works are more about pain and lashing out at the world, about falling from the hands of drugs after 14 days and just wanting to kill or sleep, and it's done in rather flavorful fashions. It has an electronic beat that ripples in the mind, sometimes darkwave and sometimes composed to a more melodic hue, but its always stark and cold.
Like an operating table, it rebuilds.
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