News: Pulpit Vomit to Crack the Asylum Gates Wide Open with ‘Hospital Lens’
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What happens when faith, madness, and grindcore all collide inside a padded cell?
On July 25, Broken Curfew Records and Rottweiler Records will unleash one of the most unsettling concept albums we’ve heard in a while, and that’s saying something. Pulpit Vomit’s Hospital Lens is less a debut and more a controlled detonation, tearing through the corridors of mental illness, spiritual corruption, and existential dread with a chainsaw and a theology degree.
We’ve been tracking this band’s weird and unholy trajectory for a couple of years now, starting with their holiday single Ghost in the Bedroom Closet, a shriek-filled fever dream from the point of view of a child. It was clear from the start that Pulpit Vomit wasn’t interested in being just another blastbeat band. They’re here to tell a story, and Hospital Lens tells it like a botched lobotomy.
Welcome to Greyhaven
The album plays like a deranged sermon delivered inside a burning chapel. Hospital Lens unfolds from the fragmented psyche of Patient 103 (aka Miles Harren), a former pianist turned institutionalized ghost-of-himself, trapped in the Greyhaven Institution. Once inspired by music and faith, now Harren scrawls delusions on his cell walls while being haunted by the monstrous Dr. Gideon “Razor Jaw” Fell, a disgraced dental surgeon turned inmate with a knack for surgical mutilation involving piano wire and teeth.
It’s horrifying, sure. But there’s poetry in the madness.
Tracks like “Spewing Vomit from The Pulpit” and “No Place in Power” reflect Pulpit Vomit’s knack for wrapping sociopolitical critiques and theological unease inside layers of distortion and societal disgust. It’s grindcore with a conscience. Or maybe a conscience that’s been electroshocked into something else entirely.
Fans of Pig Destroyer, NAILS, and Wormrot will find the fury familiar, but what separates Pulpit Vomit is their commitment to concept. This is music made not just for the pit, but for late-night existential unravelings. Lyrically, it draws from the same well as Flannery O’Connor or Dostoevsky, only screamed over blast beats and distortion.
Some standout moments:
- “Midnight Nun” — a story of a nun who comes out at midnight
- “Spewing Vomit from the Pulpit” — a not-so-subtle dig at religious abuse and false prophets.
- “Blank Stares in Fluorescent” — an instrumental as unnerving as the lighting in a psychiatric ward.
If you’ve ever wrestled with doubt, despair, or the dark corners of your own mind, this album gets it, and throws it back at you in sonic form.
Bonus Tracks & Twisted Holidays
CD buyers get treated with bonus tracks like “Turkey Annihilation”, a wild Thanksgiving nightmare involving mutant turkeys and mad science, and “Jingle, Jingle, Jingle”, a seasonal onslaught that turns holiday cheer into holiday fear. These are extensions of the same twisted cinematic universe. Think Silent Hill meets Leviticus, by way of early Earache Records.
Hospital Lens drops July 25 on digital platforms, with physical CDs (including bonus tracks) through Broken Curfew Records and Rottweiler Records.
FFO: NAILS, Wormrot, Jesus Piece, Pig Destroyer, Cephalic Carnage
Pulpit Vomit is:
Seth Metoyer – Vocals/Guitars
Kris Olson – Bass
Tim Olson – Drums
Track Listing (digital version):
- Razor Jaw
- Ghost in the Bedroom Closet
- The Filth
- No Place in Power
- Blank Stares in Fluorescent Lights
- Skin Collector
- Midnight Nun
- Spewing Vomit from the Pulpit
For interview requests or press materials, contact: brokencurfewrecords@gmail.com
Learn more at: Pulpit Vomit Bandcamp
Watch the Official Lyric Video for the single “Razor Jaw”.
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