We’re excited to renew our long lasting collaboration with UK-based multi-instrumentalist and solo artist A. White and announce the release of "The Doorway", a new full-length LP from his mechanized aural weapon Vessel of Iniquity. Comprising of nine blistering new cuts of total auditory annihilation and featuring staggering artwork by PBV of 夢遊病者 (Sleepwalker), "The Doorway" sees Vessel of Iniquity reach its critical mass and assume what may possibly be its most lethal, majestic, and abominable form yet. The visionary work is slated for an August 6 2021 release on LP, MC and digital formats via Sentient Ruin worldwide, all of which are now pre-ordeable on our Bandcamp and webshop, and from the band or CARGO Records in the EU.
On this new horrific experiment of overwhelming sensorial annihilation, sole mastermind A. White invokes absolute armageddon, funneling a blinding scourge of swirling atmospheric harsh industrial and lacerating abstract black metal into forty-five minutes of pure concentrated chaos. With an immanent and horrifying sense of dissolution and of total loss of control, "The Doorway" sees Vessel of Iniquity discharge a pulverizing swarm of machine gun-like drum machines, suffocating ambient dirges, ravaging harsh electronics and a maelstrom of crushing fretwork obliteration to pound complete oblivion into the listener.
To coincide with the release’s announcement, extreme metal blog NO CLEAN SINGING has unveiled the track “Dying” stating that the track is “the sound of bodies being ripped apart under the impact of an absolutely ruthless mechanized assault, a shock-and-awe campaign unmarred by nuance and unadulterated by mercy” and explaining that “A. White, has been exercising his creative impulses in various extreme and experimental ways for nearly two decades and ‘The Doorway’ will leave behind him perhaps the biggest smoking crater of underground destruction yet." You can read the full review and check out the track HERE.
British multi-instrumentalist, soundscaper, and audial deconstructor A.White has been hammering away at some of the underground’s most puzzling, obscure, and terrifying artifacts for the better part of the last two decades. Continuing the trend of never adhering to any scene or benefitting from any kind of mainstream underground exposure, through its 2017 defining self-tiled debut album, the followup LP “Void of Infinite Horror” and a string of more experimental EPs and digital releases, Vessel of Iniquity has taken the sincretisms of black metal, grindcore, and industrial noise to its most remote outer limits, establishing itself as a puzzling and unseen beacon of extremism unlike anything else existing in the underground.