The black metal and gabba inspired Osaka based unit's latest video imagines a sci-fi time leap across centuries
“Helvetech is a coined word combining the words Helvete and Techno,” says Violent Magic Orchestra band member Mongo over email, Helvete being the infamous black metal record shop in Norway, founded by Mayhem's Euronymous. “The name of the planet where VMO was born is Helvetech,” he declares.
In their interview with James Hadfield in The Wire 478, the Osaka based six-piece explain how they work to fuse an experimental art practice with club and metal music, and how their sound has morphed through the years with shifts in direction and new members joining.
“Planet Helvetech” will be the opening song for VMO's second album Death Rave, set to be released in March 2024. “It is a song that imagines a time leap between 2099, when VMO was born, the present, and 1991, at the speed of light,” Mongo continues. “In the video, a messenger makes its journey through space and time, in a complex display of light, as it travels towards its designated coordinate, marking its impending arrival.”
Read James Hadfield's interview with VMO in full in The Wire 478. Wire subscribers can also read the article online via the digital magazine library.
In their interview with James Hadfield in The Wire 478, the Osaka based six-piece explain how they work to fuse an experimental art practice with club and metal music, and how their sound has morphed through the years with shifts in direction and new members joining.
“Planet Helvetech” will be the opening song for VMO's second album Death Rave, set to be released in March 2024. “It is a song that imagines a time leap between 2099, when VMO was born, the present, and 1991, at the speed of light,” Mongo continues. “In the video, a messenger makes its journey through space and time, in a complex display of light, as it travels towards its designated coordinate, marking its impending arrival.”
Read James Hadfield's interview with VMO in full in The Wire 478. Wire subscribers can also read the article online via the digital magazine library.
