Victim One: Agony

I am scared! Having just listened to Victim One Agony from start to finish I can definately say that I am scared. This is not a recommended album if you are a girl on her own at home for the weekend, like me this weekend.

Vonn has struck that balance between music and terror that you don't often find in music. I agree with what I have seen in a review here already, that this album is like the aural equivalent of some kind of extreme horror movie where no one gets out alive. The album fades in with an eerie industrial sample and is gradually overpowered by the most heavy and sick guitar sound I have ever heard. I am thinking of a guitar sound to compare it to, but nothing comes to mind. Especially when there is a muted chord, muted just enough that part of it remains almost in the subconscious, when that happens it is sheer evil genius on the behalf of the guitar player from Vonn - whoever he is, because this band keeps its identity under wraps, something that adds to the mystery of this dark and enigmatic group of people. The vocal element, the screams, never stop for a minute throughout over one hour of horrific music while the industrial samples lay subliminally in the backround, coming out every once in a while to add an extra dimension to everything.

This is a very unique album in every way, not just from its collossal guitar sound that I could go on and on and on about. The blend of everything together, how everything fades in to come together in one horrifying hour and fifteen minutes, the industrial elements, the vocals, this is an amazing piece of work. The end is 'executed' perfectly (hope you like my choice of the words there, hehe) and again the guitar is perfectly timed to meet the climax of the album, from quiet to a building type of feedback to grotesque horror to the final creepy musical squeals to DEAD!

As a huge fan of all types of doom metal Victim One Agony has struck me as the most genius work in that genre for many, many years.

COME AND PLAY A SHOW IN GERMANY VONN!!!