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Jack | Chicago, IL | 01/25/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"As a fan of EBM, I would like to say that this CD is an excellent purchase and well worth the money spent on it. The samples are great, the beats range in different speeds making the CD virtually flawless, and most of all it's fun to listen to during good times... (you know)."

"Its called Mescaline. Its the Only Way to Fly."

TastyBabySyndrome | "Daddy Dagon's Daycare" - Proud Sponsor of the Lit | 02/26/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"VAC has become a staple with regards to beats involving bleak social outlooks, tipping its hat to both rage and anger and the need to progressively spit into the eye of dogma. Earlier works take a more violent tone with that, the middle works a wider spectrum, and the later works a little bit of everything learned in the motion. As a sonic body that means variety in some ways but in a specific field, and with specific elements in the music. Voxing, darkwave beats and sampling, and negative emotive rainbows; that is the staple holding it all together.



Unlike other VAC albums, this is more of an introspective piece dealing with depression and the needs of the self-destructive. In it Bryan credits this to a few things, saying that he was going to make an album with upbeat lyrics and turned to MDMA (X/E) to craft the piece. The problem was that he had issues in his life and personal problems and that his trip into ecstasy became bleaker as he walked that line. You can see it in the songs themselves, with the songs falling further down and the thoughts coiling and twisting like syllabic nooses.

And that makes good listening.



While I'm partial to the work as a whole, there are specific tunes I pick out when I want to showcase the album. The first of three I normally turn to is Lysergia, because it is a template for a variety of VAC themes and because it shows the direction the album goes. It keeps its beat and grows dark, splinting, with lyrics like "Acid dreams and nicotine, violent screams from a mezzanine" echoing over and over again until it hit that "and to this night there is no end" conclusion.

I also like Dial8 because it has a few elements I'm fond of, and uses the other side of the voxing that Byran works well with. Instead of the mere shadows of lyrics it contains both electronica and darkness, and it grows in its angst.

As a last example I'll pick out Dilaudid, because it changes the course of the album a little more, slowing the sounds but darkening the tempo a little more, and giving something akin to pain to the noise coming form inside. I always liked the lyrics when they're slowed to a crawl, almost human and yet haunting, and this song carries that sound.

(and this, by no means, discounts other tracks because songs like Asphixia are great)



As far as VAC albums go, this is definitely one to pick up because it helps capture the scope of what VAC can do. As I said before, this is an internal slideshow of a person actually beginning to fall apart and recording it, so it has power in it. And I like albums associated with the ugly side of living, because that's oftentimes the place we're running from when we knock on music's door.

"I could have been the parasite chewing holes in this life you so cheaply passed on.""

Great surprise when you play it in your PC

WilOTheWisp | Clackmas, OR United States | 06/13/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Velvet Acid Christ continues to put together songs that have multiple layers and a slightly different sound compared to all previous albums. The surprise comes when you put it into your PC and discover that there is an entire "extra" album on the CD in MP3 format with a readme file from Bryan himself telling you that the extra tracks are for his hardcore fans. All the extra tracks are extremely experimental in nature and created in a mind altered state and "well" worth listening too. Overall, I was very impressed with this entire album and look forward to the next offering."