Copenhagen grand band Vs DooM deconstructs religious semiotics on new single 'Two Lights' from debut album

The Copenhagen, Denmark based experimental ensemble Vs DooM is a collective, diverse, and activist-oriented big band that, on its debut album 'Live at Xenon,' calls for resistance against monoculture, puritanism, and the linguistic poverty of ideology through its engaging, imaginative fusion of afrobeat, psychedelic rock, and soul. The entity follows up on its debut single ‘1000 Years’ released this past August by sharing the 12-minute song ‘Two Lights - a harsh deconstruction of religious semiotics - today.

Singer and lyricist M. Rexen states:

"Two Lights - One to count the days and one to navigate the night. And God saw that it was good. An interpretation of a biblical verse. One that shows how incredibly wrong those who wrote the Bible were. Why not say that light is life? Or that the male G-spot is in the anus?

The Abrahamic religions still have the world in a chokehold. A chokehold that elevates a puritanical worldview that belittles everything that is not like them. The opposite of diversity. Revolt! And yes, the state church should be closed, and we should take over their premises as the people's houses.

Vs DooM is the new sound - one filled with wildness and closeness and joy and the will towards a better world. Better than what their God created for us!

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people" - Marx my Man

"Two Lights, that's a lie" - Vs DooM"

Also, listen to Vs DooM’s debut single ‘1000 Years’ HERE

'Live At Xenon' were recorded live over 3 days on the Xenon stage at Huset i Magstræde in Copenhagen. An hour-long performance created by Ukrainian director Ira Nirsha, involving actors, lighting, and video recording, where the band's tracks were woven into an absurd musical theater production about illness in the modern world and the absurd ways with which we try to heal. The performance uses tennis, love, and personal liberation as themes to tell the story, all while the band explores the collective process and gets the audience dancing.

From the beginning, Vs DooM has focused on the collective and moved away from individual fixation. Everything was driven by a vision to create a large, inclusive, and colorful orchestra that engages in open communication with the audience, often involving theater, storytelling, and physicality. The collective nature gives Vs DooM a breadth and uniqueness that sets them apart from other Danish bands. Thirteen musicians, a good mix in terms of gender, age, and genre. From the completely inexperienced to the seasoned veterans. Wildly growing in its own way, with elements from both established and experimental realms.

The lyrics of Vs DooM focus on the way we use language, specifically how religion, ideology, and cultural homogenization steal and exploit our language to brainwash us. The band represents a counter-culture that resonates in all recordings—a shout and advice against puritanism and the white, patriarchal world order. Through its mere existence, music, and lyrics, Vs DooM unfolds an activism against this homogenizing, dumbing-down mass culture through its insistence on collectivism, love, imagination, and human liberation.

‘Live at Xenon’ is produced by M. Rexen and Mathias Bang Madsen and set for a release 20th October 2023 via acclaimed Danish experimental label ILK.

Vs DooM is: Michael Rexen: vocal, Henry Gibbs: vocal, Nina Baun: vocal, Liv Lumia Hurtigkarl: vocal; Mads Lund Egetoft: saxofon; Lise Munch: horn; Mathilde Schelin: clarinet; Erik Kimestad: trumpet; Kristian Tangvik: keyboards; Kristian Haarløv: guitar; Peter Danstrup: bass; Rune Lohse: drums; Sylvester Kallesøe: percussion