“Obviously, there’s a lot of different doom bands in Denver and in the genre in general. Once he came in as the group’s bassist, he suggested thinking of something that would help the trio stand out a little more. Rinehart, who considers himself “the new guy” in the band, recalls seeing Voideater live before officially joining, and how he didn’t get much of a “doom” vibe from it. That’s why they call what they’re doing with Voideater “blackened doomcore” - a new subgenre tag that includes death doom, sludge, hardcore and an old-school death-metal attitude. “When you look at some bands in this world of doom bands, it’s like…boring,” Hernandez says with a laugh.
The band likes to do doom a little differently, especially in a local scene that’s saturated with the more traditional, trippy sound. Voideater isn’t your typical low-and-slow stoner band that’s content with letting one note drone on forever. Physical copies of Speak Into Existence will be available there, too. Worry, Grief Ritual and Caltrops are also on the bill. With a new album, Speak Into Existence, in its arsenal, Voideater is playing a record release show Friday, June 16, at HQ.
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“It adds another level to it, but I don’t really know how to prepare people for it," Rinehart says. Even if they don’t like the music, they love the show,” Hernandez adds. Saylor calls it a “light show that’s not Pink Floyd.”
We don’t care where we’re playing, we’re going to bring all that.” “Besides just the sound, the effects that we use, we light everything up, we have lasers, we have smoke machines that we bring to every show, no matter where we’re playing,” Rinehart says, pointing to the glowing stack of amps that are dispelling different colors in the band’s practice space. The trio is heavy on the LED lights and lasers. It’s safe to say that seeing Voideater live is a memorable experience, both physically and visually. “It happens in practice every once in a while, like, ‘Whoa, okay, I've got to stop for a second,’” Rinehart says. The band can attest to exactly what those sounds can do to the human body. "People are like, ‘Why do you do that? You can’t even hear that shit.’ I guarantee you can. Painting such a sonic picture requires several elements, including down-tuning the guitar and bass E0, which is virtually “subsonic,” says bassist Matt Rinehart. “You’re in the middle of nowhere, there’s no gravity, no one can hear you scream," Saylor adds. He cites Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and likens Voideater’s sound to being “trapped in a tiny box.” “And I want people to feel the same way.and think about it more” when they listen to Voideater.ĭrummer David Saylor, who joined the group six years ago, adds another perspective about the cold reality of space: “It’s expansive and infinite, but it’s also extremely claustrophobic.” The word itself is enough to conjure images of a Lovecraftian inter-dimensional monster that, like Cthulhu, secretly lurks somewhere within the ever-expanding universe, only to wreak havoc if provoked.īut it’s also a kick-ass band name, which is what vocalist and guitarist Neil Hernandez thought when he started the local cosmic doom outfit in 2015.
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