Shadowy Midwestern entity VIT have released their long-awaited ‘The Dry Season’ EP as a pay-what-you-wish digital download, and are already midway through production plans for a vinyl edition, both under the Handshake Inc. banner.
Recorded in the rotting heart of Swansylvania, mixed by Fuck the Facts’ Topon Das, and mastered by the bearded one, James Plotkin, ‘The Dry Season’ is comprised of four wretched, crusty and blackened songs. Twenty seven minutes of 2nd wave grime; epithets of the vast and dying natural world that VIT inhabit. Featuring guest appearances by allies Austin Lunn (Panopticon, Seidr) and Johan Becker (Austaras), the album offers no gimmicks, no transcending, no rituals – just a black, mulched death that engulfs the listener, choking air from lungs as that what was once alive sinks forever into a pit of endless night. A melody of hopelessness sung by earth’s last insignificant creature. Fans of Barghest, Weakling, and Watain, take heed.
Vit “Sixteen Bodies” from Handshake Inc on Vimeo.
The Deciblog recent premiered the video for “16 Bodies,” praising the band thusly: Ttheir brand of grueling harshitude is just about my favorite kind of ear-hate: a doomy churn filled with motion and eventful anarchy, a corpse-painted wretch that forgoes all amusical mopiness in favor of mounting, forboding horror. Fans of genre-shunting black mood enhancement take heed. VIT are shuffling bleakly toward your soon-to-be-decimated speakers.”
