VIOLENT MAGIC ORCHESTRA - KENTARO HAYASHI

“Multi-headed beast VMO can only be described as an experience. They combine metal with shrieking, nerve-jangling electronic noise and painted faces”

The Violent Magic Orchestra (VMO) is an offshoot of Japan’s brutal orchestra of everything Black, Vampillia. In collaboration with Pete Swanson (ex-Yellow Swans) and French composer Paul Régumbeau, aka Mondkopf, VMO’s album ‘Catastrophic Anonymous’ cranks up the level of cataclysm with delicious hyperbole, a juggernaut exercise in stomach-turning sub bass assaults, pneumatic blast beats and violent black metal barrages.

KENTARO HAYASHI

Kentaro Hayashi is an Osaka-based sound engineer who has mastered for Merzbow and Vanity Records. His debut album "Peculiar" was released in 2021 as a double LP on Opal tapes. The LP includes remixes by Jim O'Rourke and Merzbow. His work is characterized by experimental noise that stirs like a new life form. It is also a sonic work that seems to be a new interpretation of the possibilities of electric and experimental music, such as abstract techno and mutant Drum’n’Bass/Jungle, constructed as a soundscape of another parallel world. The sound, which seems to transform time and space with perspective, seems to crystallize the beauty of this world and the moment of suffering. The thoroughly polished sound is filled with such intensity that it seems to expand the listener's sense of hearing at once.