Vexed "Culling Culture" 12" Black vinyl-officially licensed Vexed music This crushing Hertfordshire foursome combine aggressive groove mixed with ominous threads of progressive atmosphere on their long-awaited debut album, Culling Culture. If the release of two recent one-off singles served as an auditory love tap (i.e. “Elite” featuring Thy Art is Murder vocalist CJ McMahon, boasting over 500k independently driven cross-platform streams as of early 2021), Culling Culture is a wound-up suckerpunch. Hard-as-nails lead vocalist Megan Targett’s vicious vocal assault blending venomously low growls, soaring cleans and razor-sharp rap-like deliveries (see “Fake” and “Weaponise”) is backed by the pure technical proficiency of bandmates Willem Mason-Geraghty (drums), Jay Bacon (guitar) and Al Harper (bass). Airtight riffs à la genre greats Meshuggah and favorites like Periphery and Vildhjarta, an instigating rhythm section and stratospheric solos and leads prove that VEXED could just as confidently command the biggest open-air stages as they could the toughest of backroom hardcore shows. ---------------------------------- TRACK LIST 1. Ignorant 2. Hideous 04:143. Fake 03:354. Epiphany 04:085. Misery 03:126. Narcissist 03:307. Weaponise 03:258. Purity 04:489. Drift 01:0510. Aurora 04:5611. Lazarus 03:52
