Well ahead of the untimely 2021 passing of their drummer Joey Jordison, his group VIMIC were planning to release their debut album “Open Your Omen” back in 2018. That project was dealt an early blow that year however, with the passing of co-producer Kato Khandwala in a motorcycle accident.
Despite issuing an initial round of four singles, that album ultimately wound up getting shelved, with members of the band instead shifting their focus to Sinsaenum. In light of this Monday, April 28th, being what would been Jordison‘s 50th birthday, his family are moving forward with getting the funding in place to finally release that full-length.
Jordison‘s family stated of their plans to get this album out this September:
“After years of working to secure the rights to the music, the Jordison Family Estate is releasing Open Your Omen independently to get the album into the hands of the fans that have been asking for it for years. Joey didn’t do anything small. We want to release this album the way he would have wanted; with the designs he was so actively involved with creating for the CD, double LP, merch, and with the support of his fans to make the biggest splash we can upon release.
We have added personal items of Joey‘s to help raise the money needed to manufacture and distribute physical product, market the album, and host a night to remember as VIMIC reunites to perform an event honoring Joey‘s legacy.”
That campaign will be launching on April 28th at 10:00am EST / 07:00am PST via this Kickstarter campaign. In addition to Jordison, VIMIC featured vocalist Kalen Chase, guitarist/vocalist Jed Simon, guitarist/vocalist Steve Marshall, bassist/vocalist Kyle Konkiel and keyboardist/vocalist Matthew Tarach.
