The new track from Allentown’s Orphan Donor doesn’t wait for your permission to tear into consciousness. “Vomit in the Cathedral of Nous” was recorded by Jared Stimpfl and features cover art by James Ravelle. The album marks another chapter in a project that has always chosen rupture over resolve, dragging grindcore, screamo, noise, and metallic skramz into a shared chokehold. Hold tight.
Stimpfl (also known from Secret Cutter and Motel Bible) has been carrying this project since the post-Oktober Skyline disintegration, filtering an obsession with chaos through a lens sharpened over decades.
Orphan Donor first surfaced in the early 2010s, briefly playing live in 2011 before retreating into studio work. Those early releases included contributions from Kevin Morris (Full of Hell/Merzbow, Motel Bible), who laid down vocals and trumpet. The result was more than just an extension of the white-belt MySpace grind scene—it was a mutated relic, worn and louder.
By 2022, the noise had begun to calcify into something more structured. Old Patterns saw Chris Pandolfo of Clouds Collide on vocals, and the following year Unraveled landed on vinyl via Zegema Beach Records.
What began as a solitary effort eventually fractured into a real band. The current sound is no longer just Stimpfl’s internal combustion. It’s collaborative. It’s venomous.
“Vomit in the Cathedral of Nous” pushes further into the terrain of collapse. Dual vocals cut across walls of distortion without surrendering to any singular rhythm or logic. The density is intentional.
Kevin Morris offers this about the album: “This album is a commentary on humanity’s struggle to perceive absolute truth—both in our relationship to the external world and within our collective and individual consciousness. We have willfully destroyed our resistance to technological and ideological manipulation, while traditional religious, political, and philosophical structures have crumbled into irrelevance. What remains is a cycle of mind-vomit and opinionated rot, fueling mass anxiety, political extremism, and social alienation. Instead of embracing the beauty of nature, intellect, and kindness, we continually reject them, drawn instead to the numbness of extremism and detachment.”
Orphan Donor will be sharing the stage with Pissed Jeans at the new Archer Music Hall in Allentown on April 12, 2025. Given the trajectory of both bands, it’s not a night for passive consumption. It’s friction made physical.
There’s also the matter of Stimpfl’s other band, Secret Cutter, whose latest full-length “///” continues the sonic lineage with less screamo and more sludge—same family of damage, different weapon.
