When the Gods Came
Under Dusken
Published online February 1995 or previously
By dr. Zork
Original Norwegian version
It wasn't coincedential that Vampire State Building played after the meeting of surrealism. In addition, the music, which can be called something like "hard techno rock," contributed strongly to that the visual and made an unusual experience. The vocalist, a couple of dancers and the rest of the band made an original show, helped by creative use of light and data animations in the background. If one should describe the total experience with one word, "pompous" would be a good choice. With two words you could make it into "very pompous." With three words, in foreign-ish, it is "over the top." No one should believe that that means that it was bad; not at all. It was those parts that worked the best. I was discarding all critical sense and letting the impressions flow inside me, and the result was that I was sitting with chills from the top of my head to far down my thighs. If you walk around with plans to design a new religion, Vampire State Building would be worthy gods.
Da gudene kom
Det var ikke tilfeldig at Vampire State Building spilte etter nettopp surrealismemøtet. I tillegg til musikken, som kan kalles noe slikt som "hard techno-rock", bidro det visuelle sterkt til en uvanlig opplevelse. Vokalisten, et par dansere og resten av bandet sto for et orginalt sceneshow, godt hjulpet av kreativ lysbruk og data-animasjoner i bakgrunnen. Skal en beskrive totalopplevelsen med ett ord er "pompøst" et godt valg. Med to ord kan man presisere til "veldig pompøst". Med tre ord, på utenlandsk, blir det "over the top". Nå må ingen tro at dette betyr at det var dårlig, tvert imot, det var de mest svulstige partiene som virket best. Jeg koblet ut all kritisk sans og bare lot inntrykkene strømme innover meg, resultatet var at jeg satt med frysninger fra toppen av hodet til langt nedover leggene. Hvis du går med planer om å designe en ny religion vil Vampire State Building være verdige guder.