I haven’t heard proper Deathcore for ages. So long in fact that I hardly seem to recognize it now. Still, I believe Vaulting, from Wiesbaden, Germany, are operating in the department. Perhaps on the genre’s border with Progressive Death Metal. It’s hard to tell genres apart these days. What I can tell you though, is that Vaulting’s material sounds aggressive, weird and different. All in the good way.

I was contacted by Sebastian, the band’s drummer and he told me they have their debut album approaching is release date fast: it’s scheduled to be aired on October 28 via Unundeux Records. The album’s to be called Nucleus and we may review it later. At this moment in time we’d like to introduce you to the band’s earlier work and serve you a few tracks off Nucleus already.

So, we’ll first turn to Modus Humanis, which is their 2009 self-released EP. It’s a shorty, with its five songs not even covering ten minutes of playing time. One of those five short tracks is We Are the Cavalry and it spans only a minute and 35 seconds in total. That’s Grindcore-like and indeed, the song seems to contain about as many notes a minute. But where Grindcore is very often not much more than a huge pile of brutal sawmill abuse, Vaulting manage to stuff their songs with very intelligent fuckin’ notes. There’s plenty of fast-paced leads, hooks and sharp edges. The video, rather than a bunch of guys on horses, shows a man in a suit, driving a Mercedes, burying his own grave. I don’t get it. But it’s cool anyway.

What you oughta do now, is visit the band’s BandCamp page. There you can stream and buy all of their previous work. But most importantly, you can already hear four songs off the upcoming Nucleus album there – find it by clicking the top-left album cover. The songs you can listen to are 80 Gy, Guernica, To Dig a (W)hole in the Void and Behind. What you will find is something moving more in the direction of Grindcore again, with loads of wild-ass mind-fuckery going on, but definitely unorthodox. Have a good one!

Tags: deathcore, German, grindcore, progressive, technical

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