Hanging by the Bayou Light

Vide

Raw DSBM meets swampy sludge swagger

Official Description

CVLT NATION "FYI: VIDE doesn’t suck. VIDE is impressive and, over the course of a year, has released some of the most chilling and compelling Black Metal created. This mysterious project’s music is moving and grim beyond belief. What I love about it their songs is how they can harness their power, anguish, and pain into an addictive sonic force that makes me want to hear more each time. VIDE’s most recent project, “Hanging By The Bayou Light,” is their most grim to date, but in it’s own demented and morbid way melodic. It’s the layers and textures of feral audio that makes me say, unholy fuck, this project is the fucking bomb."

My Thoughts

Vide do work on this album, proving that there’s plenty going on in Louisiana besides New Orleans sludge.

This is also a whole different world of grimness from my usual Italian dsbm bands. This is not just sad boi noizes; this is feral and insane. Like a mythical demented swamp creature, it claws and slithers through the dark.

Hanging by the Bayou Light is a paean to misanthropy and isolation, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. This is audio catharsis.

Extra-special attention should be paid to the awesome D-Beat drums on “It Would Be the Last Time”, an epic track that takes half of the ~30 minute running time of the album.