VOMITO NEGRO’s was formed by Gin Devo in 1982,
and over the past years this EBM pioneer established a name for themselves as
uncompromising aural architects, combining power with emotion, EBM with
vision.
VOMITO NEGRO is latin (portuguese/spanish) for
“black vomit”, a phenomenon that arises in the last stage of the
disease yellow fever, when the patient throws up his putrefied intestines and
ultimately dies. Macabre? One might consider VOMITO NEGRO's interest in
the darker side of the human condition as unhealthy, but in fact it..s fuelled
by a desire to cope with and to understand life (and consequently, death) as we
know it. VOMITO NEGRO handle their topics with grim sarcasm and/or
penetrating personal involvement; under the surface however, they give way to a
message of redemption, passion and purification.
From the start on,
flexibility is one of VOMITO NEGRO's major qualities.Vomito Negro is
never content with a certain formula: their musical approach, essentially based
on the European “Industrialist” tradition of the early eighties,
takes a different angle with every record. Tracing back their history through
albums as diverse as 'Vomito Negro' (their haunting debut from 1985) to 'Wake
Up' (1992) one hears growth and evolution in Vomito Negro..s varied
soundscapes. Vomito negro's synthesized psychodramas range from danceable to
contemplative, from instrumental to and ambient to voice-ridden and brutal.
Live, the sound and the imagery of Vomito Negro's stage are an inescapable
force setting alight the imagination of the
listener/spectator.
VOMITO NEGRO established to be one of the
most important Industrial European bands of the last decade. They built up a
great following over the years. Lots of new bands following the same musical
direction, Bootlegs, Compilations Bootlegs with bands like Front 242, Front
Line Assembly, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Klinik an lots of other bands prove
that Vomito Negro is one of the bands who made electronic music great in
Europe.
But VOMITO NEGRO has to be seen like an open structure,
over the past years, lots of musicians worked together with this duo, 'A Split
Second'- Chrismar Chayell (producer), Poésie Noire – Ludo Camberlin
(producer), Revolting Cocks – Luc Van Acker (live mix), Liquid G, Mario
Varewijck (Insekt, Lowpass), Eric Van Wontergem (Klinik, Insekt, Monolith),
Andy Szava-Kovats (Data Bank A, Dominion), Mark Lane (Mark Lane band), Slin
Thompson (Psyche).
After ‘Fireball’, an album mastermind Gin
Devo wasn’t really content with, VOMITO NEGRO was put on hiatus. In
2008, he decided that it was time to wake up the beast again, VOMITO
NEGRO recorded a new double album called “Skull & Bones &
The 2K10 re-makes.
In times where every band that puts
together tracks using a standard sound module and vocal distortion in their
bedroom is hyped as the new hope in the “Harsh Electro” or “Dark
Electro” genre, an album like “Skull And Bones” feels
like a cleansing shock. Belgian legend VOMITO NEGRO, who have been
active since the mid Eighties, still celebrate their sound with an intensity,
creativity and passion that makes most recent hard Electro projects sound like
a weekend trip to Disneyland. The spirit of “Skull And Bones”
is of the deepest black… no hope, no mercy! Rhythmic loops are thudding
relentlessly under dark sound scapes and the heavily manipulated shouts leave
no room for sunny feelings. Even after being active for more than a quarter of
a century, VOMITO NEGRO are still a trademark name for a club compatible
trip to hell that is bound to stir up, unsettle and electrify. The new album
from one of the pioneers of the dark side of electronic music will be released
as a limited first edition with a bonus disc that contains the group’s
biggest hits, among them some of the greatest EBM classics, in spectacular new
versions.
On January 22, 2010, the band released Skull
& Bones through Out Of Line Records. Some of these new tracks like
"Black Tie, White Shirt" and "Darkmoon" were already tested on the
crowd of the WGT Festival, in Leipzig[1] and the Bimfest in Antwerpen In
February 2010, just after its release, 'Skull & Bones' entered the
German Alternative Charts (DAC) on the tenth position, only to climbed further
up to the second position one week later. Meanwhile the remake version of their
club classic 'Move Your Body(V2K10)',which is featured on the bonus disc
of the limited edition version, entered the DAC's single charts shooting up to
the 13th place.
In 2010 VOMITO NEGRO released the cult EP
“Slave Nation” and after a short period the album entered the
German electro web-charts for 8 weeks. VOMITO NEGRO live stands for a
never seen punch of electro power, hammering sequencers, clock timed live
percussion, harsh synths, theremin work, and vocals that wil blow your brain
out.
