We’re proud to announce that Lima, Peru-based deranged raw black metal cult Vulvanic join Sentient Ruin under the black banner of total violence and depravity to bring you a much-needed reissue of their two long sold out self-released demo tapes, 2019's "ブラックエンジェルの色合い" ("Scent of Black Angel”), and "秘密の夜の殺人者" ("Ripper's Secret Night of Murder") remastered from the raw mixes by Will Killingswroth at Dead Air Studios, and graphically re-envisioned by the Violent Visual Shock art studio into a horrific forty-minute 12'LP and cassette tape compilation of violent, sadistic sonic abandon.
Formed by current and former members of Evil Spectrum, Tenebrion, Sordid, Obscure Evil, and Purgatorio, and infamous in their home country for erratic and unpredictable live shows entailing violence, butchered animals, sadism and self-harm, the rogue blood horde known as Vulvanic are creators of a demented and diseased form of schizoid raw black metal infested with punk, noise, and derailing psychedelia, the depravity and repulsiveness of which has few comparisons even in the darkest and most tabu dungeons of the underground. Utterly deranged and horrifically disfigured, Vulvanic's music is even difficult to parce in its incomprehensible deformity, rising from a death-scarred dungeon and delivering hallucinatory and stomach churning visions of violence, squalor, sadism and depravity at a level unthinkable for any barely held together mind.
Their crippled and spastic audio-visual syncretism unites various deviancies from around the globe, particularly in the evident hardcore and raw punk aspect predominant in their music and reminiscent of transgressive cults from Japan like G.I.S.M., Zouo, G.A.T.E.S. and Zeni Geva, and inevitably also of the historic vanguard of Japanese devilish metal, namely Sabbat, Evil, Sigh, Abigail, and Manierism, as well as Japanese transgressive art and visuals and performance art as a whole. Other influences plaguing the band's deranged and putrid sound include of course the progenitors of pestilent emaciated black metal from Scandinavia (Darkthrone, Ildjarn), as well as infernal legends from the later period like Katharsis, Vlad Tepes and Negative Plane. The final touches to Vulvanic's catastrophic repulsiveness are wholly intrinsic, coming from a place of personal inner torment, nihilism and self-loathing that has to be endured in its most violent and shocking manifestations to be even remotely fathomed.
Vulvanic are a band that since its burdensome inception have always lived on the edge, using their crippled and disfigured music as a trial to test the limits of creativity and expression. Closely entwined with the Peruvian Violent Visual Shock label and art studio, Vulvanic can be considered an audio-visual and performance art act as a whole, in a manner similar to what were defining and pioneering shocking acts like G.I.S.M., Swans, Skinny Puppy, GG Allin and Throbbing Gristle. Indeed, the band shares a close affinity to the Japanese extreme music and performance art underground, in part due to the strong Japanese culture and influence which is still well established in Peru, but mostly due to the musical influences that have helped shape the band’s sound like G.I.S.M. etc. The result is a multicultural audiovisual cross-genre and cross-boundary disfiguration, a unique blend of styles, visuals and influences that has led to the creation of the infamous first 2019 demo "ブラックエンジェルの色合い" also known as "Scent of Black Angel", and the subsequent "秘密の夜の殺人者" 2020 demo tape also known as "Ripper's Secret Night of Murder", both of which were repackaged and reinvisioned as a 12" vinyl and tape compilation remastered by Will Killingsworth and released in 2023 by Sentient Ruin.