You’re born into the world as a blank canvas. As you meet people
and experience things, you’re getting stained and torn up.”
That’s the concept behind the new record from Vein.fm, This World
Is Going To Ruin You. Recorded with grammy winning producer
Will Putney of Graphic Nature Audio in April 2020, just weeks
into a global shutdown, to create the bands latest twelve track
full length album. Featuring guest appearances from artists Geoff
Rickly, Jeff Smith and Bones, as well as the original artwork of
Autumn Morgan, This World Is Going To Ruin You is a fully realized
version of the bands darker and more disgusting inception of
metallic hardcore.
While the bands 2018 full length debut Errorzone received
praise from Pitchfork stating “sets the tone for one of the year’s
most exhilarating heavy records.,” This World Is Going To Ruin
You will be hailed as its own formidable beast. “Every release
is like its own universe,” the band explains. “It has to do with the
look and the feel. On Errorzone, it’s pretty obvious: Everything
is very colorful and bright, and there’s electronic drum and bass
elements. If you listen to our material prior to that, it’s much darker
and much more disgusting.”
In that sense, This World Is Going To Ruin You is not a return to
the band’s roots so much as a more fully realized version of them.
“With this album, the vibe was to tune lower, make it darker and
more disgusting, to sort of go back to the origin point of Vein.fm
and put it on blast,” vocalist Anthony DiDio explains. “But it’s not
a nostalgia trip. We’re just taking that part of the band to its fullest
potential.”
Lyrically, This World Is Going To Ruin You describes the human
condition through a birth-to-death timeline. “I was coming from
a very anti-social mentality,” DiDio explains. “There was a lot of
feeling of being taken advantage of, so it’s like a wounded animal
or a scared child getting revenge. The opening song is almost like
instructions on how to listen to the record. It’s basically telling you
to let go of everything. And then the next song, ‘Killing Womb,’ is
a depiction of what the outside world is like.”
“I don’t really know what else I can get across that you can’t hear
in the music,” DiDio concludes. “It’s in the artwork, it’s in the lyrics,
it’s in the music. I want people to have their own experience with
the album and everything that’s on it.”