Vomito Negro

VOMITO NEGRO was formed by Gin Devo in 1982, and overthe next years these EBM pioneer established a name for itselfas uncompromising aural architect, combining power withemotion, EBM with vision.VOMITO NEGRO is latin (portuguese/spanish) for ,blackvomit", the last stage of the disease yellow fever, when thepatient throws up his putrefi ed intestines and ultimately dies.Macabre? One might consider VOMITO NEGRO"s interest in thedarker side of the human condition as unhealthy, but in fact itis fuelled by a desire to cope with and to understand life (andconsequently, death) as we know it. VOMITO NEGRO handletheir topics with grim sarcasm and/or penetrating personalinvolvement, under the surface however, they give way to amessage of redemption, passion and purifi cation.From the start on, fl exibility is one of VOMITO NEGRO"smajor qualities.Vomito Negro is never content with a certainformula: their musical approach, essentially based on theEuropean ,Industrialist" tradition of the early eighties, takesa different angle with every record. Tracing back their historythrough albums as diverse as ,Vomito Negro" (their hauntingdebut from 1985) to ,Wake Up" (1992) one hears growth andevolution in Vomito Negro"s varied soundscapes.VomitoNegro"s synthesized psychodramas range from danceable tocontemplative, from instrumental and ambient to voice-riddenand brutal.