Review of Sad Girl Acoustic:
I don’t think the word Orgasmic quite satisfies my estimation of the song, and it’s been bothering me that for the past 15 mins I’ve been trying to find the right word to describe this song but I’m staggered. This version of Sad Girl will make anyone cry (not just the girl the song was written about), not because of how poignant it is but because of the musical measures and the intensity. I was mesmerized by the different levels and lengths that VOG put together as far as the acoustic sound; and the voice and tone just add up to the vastness, it’s almost like the music explains the story , not just the lyrics. I can tell by each measure what kind of sentiment Steven is trying to create with every word he sings. I am a huge fan of this version and I can’t wait to hear the final edit. Steven and Ben did a great job on escalating what was a splendid song into one of the most exquisite songs I have ever heard. Once again Steven has managed to reach out and arrest every existing and feasible sensation from his audience through a song. Steven never fails to astonish me. Steven's voice compared to a New High (TSG - None So Bloody... bonus track) has reached a completely distinctive level, it’s no longer just orgasmic, but it’s a sheer form of ecstasy. It’s crystal clear but at the same time it has profundity, so it’s passionate yet enraged. Good Job!
VOG - Sad Girl 
Review of VOG s/t on Shifty Records:
This record is incredibly intense and if it doesn't put Virginia's bastard sons Vog on the map then the music world may very well be deaf. Vog hover somewhere in between punk, sludge, stoner rock, noise, psychedelic rock, grind, death and black metal, taking little bits and pieces from each genre and stitching them together into ugly, purely evil jams that I can only liken to Acid Bath most directly. Vog though really don't sound exactly like Acid Bath except in just a few aspects. The vocal performance on this record is a bit like Dax Riggs in that it is all over the map ranging between intense screams that absolutely rage atop the music with some death growls adding more vitriol and even a bit of clean crooning that sounds great and incredibly ominous especially in the context of sprawling epics like "Like the Sky Above" and "Man of Action" which switch tempos up between eerie, suffocating sludge and more punishing metal with clean vocals adding a ton of dementia to the slower parts. The former of these two songs keeps getting noisier and freaked out as it keeps going as the pace slows to that of pure, plundering sludge with crazy effects seeping through the layers of sound like patterns coming through the floor on a good trip. In fact this whole record is like being on drugs without actually taking anything and that is a pretty high compliment. I just like how this record is all over the place never giving you a chance to compose yourself or figure out what they are going to throw
A primo dose of hulking psychedelic sludgemetal here
from this Virginia outfit, who enigmatically call
themselves Vog. This self titled debut is a crusher,
grinding out seven burly jams of gnarled sludge
somewhere in between Goatsnake and Eyehategod, with a
hefty dose of Today Is The Day's psychotic metallic
noise rock and loads of awesome Hawkwindesque space
rock FX! Vog's singer embellishes these cosmic tarpit
beatings with layers of intense yowling screams and
deep monstrous roars, but then he also kicks in with
some killer clean crooning vocals a la Daxx Riggs from
Acid Bath or Pete Stahl from Goatsnake. Killer stuff,
blending together megaheavy sludge/doom metal with
vicious bursts of hardcore punk, Southern rock
swagger, and noisy psychedelia all splattered with
those spacey electronic effects into an evil bad acid
trip atmosphere. Anyone into mindbending sludge metal
should definitely be checking these guys out. Review from Crucial Blast
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