Between the Eyes, Vol. 2

1. Hell One

2. Hell Two

3. Dark Lights

4. Pain

5. Falling Snow

6. Mental Depression

7. Rain for 27 Days

8. Killing Me

9. We Have to See, We Have to Know

10. Serial Killer 101

11. Decent to Darkness

12. Hail to the Dead Souls

13. I'm Gonna Wrap Myself in Your Intestines

Tracks:

Hell One
Hell Two
Dark Lights
Pain
Falling Snow
Mental Depression
Rain for 27 Days
Killing Me
We Have to See, We Have to Know
Serial Killer 101
Decent to Darkness
Hail to the Dead Souls
I'm Gonna Wrap Myself in Your Intestines

Customer Reviews:

VAC.......2007-01-05

VAC is consistently dark and moody, but this is perhaps their darkest album. turn off the lights and enjoy at a loud volume. a very good album, and a good indicator of what 'lust for blood' delivered on

The Best of the "Between the Eyes" Series.......2007-01-05

Although this album features very few actually dancy songs as many of their later albums do, it does offer some of the more powerful, melodic, brooding soundscapes Velvet Acid Christ is known for. From beginning to end, Vol.3 delivers. My personal favorites are Dark Lights, Pain, Falling Snow, Rain for 27 Days and Killing Me. If you're considering buying this album just remember this: these songs are almost nothing like those on Fun With Knives, Lust For Blood, or even the later "Between the Eyes" albums. If you're looking for good dance music, forget it. This cd features music meant to be listened to, thought about, and listened to again. If you're a hard core VAC fan, this is defintely worth a purchase. But if you're simply looking for dance music to play at a party, again, forget it. You will be severly disappointed. But if you are looking for something thought provoking, dark, powerful, and all together hauntingly beautiful, you'll hit the mark with this great album.

One of the most hopeless, depressing, and beautifull Cd's I own.......2006-06-27

I am not joking about that. Sometimes I will exaggerate the qualities of a Cd, but this is for real. There are no feel good songs on here. I can only listen to this Cd when I am in extreme despair. This is a very underrated industrial band. Bryan Erickson (the man behind the band) is a very depressed individual. At least that is the impression his music gives me. Some have said that VAC are un-original. That may be true to a degree. I mean it doesn't have the variety that FLA has, or the crazy creativity of Skinny Puppy. Where VAC excels is emotion and atmosphere. Erickson would make a good composer for horror movie music if you ask me. Most of his Cd's have fantastic movie sample's. He takes awesome quotes from great movies and they add a lot to his music. This Cd has less voice samples than the others. Not only does he have good taste in films, but he also likes a very good variety of music including some Black Metal. Much like me, only he is talented and successful LOL.

Hell One 8 Not dancy, and definitely not upbeat. This song is just about setting the mood with dreary melody, and groaning moans.

Hell Two 8 Another very dreary song. This one continues where Hell One left off. Only this one picks up the pace a little bit.

Dark Lights 8.5 Parts of this song are downbeat and brooding. There are moments when you can almost see the light through the darkness. Not for long because right when it starts to get pretty the lights go out, and you sink back into darkness.

Pain 8.5 This song is definitely reflecting his cure influence. This is loaded with suicide inspiring melody. This one makes me think of a foggy autumn graveyard in the middle of a decaying
inner city.

Falling Snow 8 Another morbidly fine example of sonic sadness. This one gets a little repetitive, but I think that is by design since it wears on your mind.

Mental Depression 9.5 Some of the most haunting music ever. This one is actually more danceable than most on this Cd.

Rain for 27 Days 7.5 A good continuation of the gloom and doom. This one doesn't stand out as much as the others do.

Killing Me 10 Definitely one of my favorite VAC songs ever. Despite the misery in the song this one actually is kind of pretty. The whispering vocals accompanied by Bryan's usual groaning gives this a great atmosphere.

We Have to See, We Have to Know 8.5 This is like a Gothic trance song. No lyrics just movie samples from some movie that I cant put my finger on.( Part of the fun of listening to VAC is trying to place what movie he took a sample from.) This is a longer song thick with dread.

Serial Killer 101 F*#k!ng spectacular. I don't even think I can describe this one. This one is more aggressive than the other's. Perfect! Tied as my favorite with Killing ME, And Hail the Dead Souls.

Decent to Darkness 8.5 Nightmarish music from hell. Makes my manic malevolent mind more morosely maddened.

Hail to the Dead Souls 10 As I said one of my favorites. This is a Keyboard driven Gothic masterpiece. This one is probably the most pure beautiful songs on the Cd.

I'm Gonna Wrap Myself in Your Intestines 7.5 Good but they should have ended with Hail/dead/souls. This one is close to being upbeat. At least in comparison to the preceding anthems of dread and decay.

If you are looking to get into VAC I would suggest this first only if you are interested in the more depressing stuff. Between the eyes vol 3 Is more of a mix of this with some more danceable elements. Fun with Drugs if you want the most danceable cd. Twisted Thought generator if you want a more
introspective trance Cd. Hex angel/Calling of the dead have more variety. Between the eyes vol 1 only if you are already a fan, and you like remixes. And finally Volume 4 if want to hear VAC's harder edge.

Beautifully brutal electro-goth.......2006-06-22

Between The Eyes Vol. 2 is really a reprinting of the long since disappeared "Fate" album, VAC's first release. It is easily the darkest of all VAC releases. Unlike the later dance-orniented material found on albums like Fun With Knives and Twisted Thought Generator, nothing on BTE 2 is danceable, or even very agressive. Instead, the entire piece is a slow, moody, and entrancing journey through soundscape after soundscape. What few vocals are present are heavily distorted, almost beyound recognition. The samples and the actual lyrics blur into the bittersweet synthesizer sounds. There is no message. There is only menacing beauty for track after track. Dark Lights, Falling Snow, and Rain for 27 days epitomize the almost hymnal quality of the music.
That is not to say that the album is repetitive; far from it. The songs themselves metamorphose through stage after stage, mournful one moment and sing-song the next. Not only that, but Bryan, VAC's frontman, seems to have sadistically inserted a few harsh little thrash ups at strategic locations. Hell Two, Mental Depression and Serial Killer 101 all display the pounding industrial drumtracks and the throbbing basslines omnipresent on the later Between The Eyes Vol. 4.
On top of all the lush synth nigh-symphonic movements on the album is a fantastic shot at a single: We Have To See, We Have To Know. Easily the best song on the album, WHTSWHTK features one of the greatest bass lines of the ninties electro scene, eirily cold bells, enigmatic Hellraiser II samples, and utterly gorgeous synth pads, all of which add up to a hypnotic listening experience. WHTSWHTK alone is worth 16 dollars. A perfect song.
As heavy as the album can be, I'm Gonna Wrap Myself In Your Intestines at the very end adds a lighthearted humor element finishing BTE 2 perfectly.
Bryan would not achieve such a perfect album for another 5 years.

Super Goth VAC album... good for a 2nd or 3rd album.......2006-04-08

I picked up this album because I had Fun With Knives and Twisted Thought Transistor, and I liked VAC. Also, this store was having a huge going out of business sale... so yeah. When I first listened to it, it was industrial, that's for sure, but a bit slower and LOT darker, musically. At first I thought it was merely okay, but as time went on, I started listening to it more and more. I know not everyone will like it... in fact at work today my music got banned because I was playing VAC and my boss called it Satanic... so no more of my music! But anyways, it will take some getting used to, but if you give it a chance, there is evil awesomeness to be heard!!! My favorite tracks on here are Hell One and Hell Two listened together, 27 Days of Rain and Dark Lights. Awesome CD, very recommended for those into dark evil music!

[3 CDs / 37 Rare Live and Unreleased Songs] WBCN "Alternative Rock" Naked Series "A Collection of Live and Unreleased Performances"

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[3 CDs / 37 Rare Live and Unreleased Songs] WBCN "Alternative Rock" Naked Series "A Collection of Live and Unreleased Performances"
Freak on a Leash - Korn, Stitches - Orgy, Battle Flag - Lo Fidelity All Stars, Believe - Lenny Kravitz What It's Like - Everlast , Teen 90 Nine - Limp Bizkit, Anthem for the Year 2000 - Silverchair, What's My Age Again - Blink 182 Down - 311 , Body Rock - Moby, It's Too Late - The Jim Carroll Band I Am the Bullgod - Kid Rock , Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots, Permanent Daylight - Radiohead, Voodoo - Godsmack, (Rock) Superstar - Cypress Hill Stellar - Incubus , Magdalena - A Perfect Circle, Home - Staind, Waffle - Sevendust Nobody's Real - Powerman 5000 , Push It - Static-X, Walk This Way - Aerosmith Impression That I Get - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones , Dead Man Walking- David Bowie, Old Apartment- Barenaked Ladies, Mockingbird Girl- Scott Weiland My Own Prison- Creed , Who Will Save Your Soul- Jewel, Sex and Candy- Marcy Playground Closing Time- Semisonic , Inside Out- Eve 6, The Way- Fastball Airport Song- Guster , and Natural One- Folk Implosion, The Passenger- Iggy Pop Save Tonight- Eagle Eye Cherry
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000FGAIP6

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