VESSEL OF INIQUITY
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. Largely recluse and solitary in his activities aside from a few defunct collaborative efforts, most of his body of work has revolved around his home studio and both the possibilities and the limitations which such a setup implicates, spanning various declinations of ambient and experimental work that have as connecting thread the extensive use of drum machines, electronic soundscapes, industrial deconstructionism and esoteric sound design, always coupled with his undying love for metal guitar, bass and vocals, specifically the extreme end of the spectrum. Influenced by bands like Coil, Godflesh, Napalm Death, Mayhem and Esoteric, White’s artistic output has assumed various forms throughout the years with self-containment and solitude as the founding basis of nearly his every work and loads of personal knowledge and deeply rooted and explored interests spanning from history to philosophy, to ancient civilizations, science and occultism, all being thrown in the mix as conceptual backdrops to his nightmarish compositions. This union of self-contained musical skills and mediums, meticulous solitary work, and endless personal interests has led to the creation of various obscure and highly underrated ambient/black metal/industrial projects over the years, many of which date as far back as 1995, from Crown of Ascension to the Egyptian mythology-themed black metal experimentalism of Thoraxembalmer, all the way to industrial funeral doom of Uncertainty Principle and of the multi-member project The Null Collective. And his most recent extreme metal project Vessel of Iniquity is the sum of all these years of self-learning, sonic exploration and boundless curiosity toward new realms of the extreme and of the unknown, all of which in recent years have helped White push his creativity into new and even more unthinkable and unseen territories of total auditory abandon. 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.