LordDargon
10-15-2004, 10:27 AM
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Phlegeton - Vocals
Guillemoth - Bass
Andy C. - Drums
Charly – Guitars
(from Madrid, Spain)
Artist description
Experimental Hyper Brutal Death from Madrid. WORMED is a mental state in which the human being dwells inside this immense universe, like a small "worm" inside an "intestine," (the Universe). And how he feels when realises that he cannot get outside of it. The necessity of crossing to beyond, something as being caught in a pre-dimension. It isn’t anything material, it is simply a way of naming a deep human emotion, we call this feeling WORMED.The music of WORMED try to create a sub-world atmospheres with deep bass sound and powerfullblasting drums and ultra gutural growls explain the diferent phases of the process in the GeodesicDome and the universe holes chaos, suggesting a new form of music wraping the listeners in anextreme spiral volumetric dimension of torture and confusion ...All lyrics concept in WORMED explain the "chapters" of this confused space and what this spacecan compress all dimensions in one to create a hole in the universe.The Geodesic Dome is the "ne plus ultra" point in space that is able to make that dimension portal.The concept of this MCD* is based on a star system located in the external space near Centaur A . Like a means of transport by which a series of phases are completed in the space/ time. Each topic is one of these phases, but they are all related to each other.It’s a history of several chapters all represented in geometric figures, for example: what appears on the cover artwork is one of the eight ectoplasmic spheres that feed the Geodesic Dome (the Octahedron that appears inside the MCD). This Dome is the centre of the system by which we pass to another dimension.This is only the concept of the MCD "Floating Cadaver in the monochrome". WORMED´s brand new full-length* will be the threshold to this dimension.
Music Style
Experimental Hyper Brutal Death Metal
*The MCD spoken of is the band’s EP, “Floating Cadaver In The Monochrome”.
*The new full-length is the new album, Planisphærium.
All footnotes are the addition of the almighty Lord Dargon.
The above is the band’s description of themselves, their music, and their philosophies. If you got anything out of the above, it should be that this is no ordinary death metal. Even the bands logo is composed of various mathematical symbols. Fusing the insane, shredding hypergrind of Cryptopsy with the alien brutality of Demilich, Wormed are creating their own little niche in the death metal world, best described by their own moniker, “Expermental Hyper Ultra Brutal Death Metal.”
The vocals would have to be my favorite thing about the whole album (aside from the occasional quantum physics reference in the lyrics.) Death metal vocals get called “inhuman” all the time. However, these are vocals which truly deserve the name. The vocalist, Phlegeton, is capable of uttering the weirdest, most brutal and unearthly sounds you will ever hear. Even the borborygmic rhinoceros in Demilich can’t match him. He makes Lord Worm sound like a castrated altar boy. (Well not quite.) For me, this guy really makes Wormed’s sound. He’s unbelievable.
The rest of the musicians do pretty well. Guitar is well executed. The drummer can’t match the raging speed of Pete Sandoval or Flo Mounier, but he uses some weird dissynchronous passages and solid hyperblasts. The bass playing has pretty good slapping/picking/whatever that weird sounding stuff is called, and has an occasional one-second solo. Overall, the band is so crushingly, absurdly brutal that there is no room for guitar leads, they mainly just flatten you with their heaviness.
The production is a bit bottom-end, and sometimes the music is lost in a mess of brutality.
Tunnel of Ions
We get a good sampling of Phlegetons ridiculous bellows, snores, belches, and what sounds a stomach gurgle originating from somewhere within his rectum at around 1:30.
There is a weird melodic (? Huh ?) bit around 2:18 with kind of ambient guitars in the background, quietly mixing with the brutal stuff in the foreground. This is a pretty generic Wormed song, and provides a good overview of just what the hell you’re getting yourself into listening to this.
Geodesic Dome
Good intro. Frenzied chords, then a weird snore/groan from Phlegeton gets this on its feet. The riffing in this song is pretty easy to hear, unlike some of the muddy songs. Technical riffing around 1:00, then a crazy bass guitar bart at about 1:45. At 2:00, everything fades out except Phlegetons vocals, and he does another one of the pulsing, grating snores that downright SCARE me. The man is a monstrosity. Then, just half a minute later, it goes into an ambient section with – spoken words? This weirdness resurfaces in later songs also. It only last a couple of seconds before transitioning into an awesome section of immense brutality, but if you listen really close, you can just make out the guitars doing something in the background, that’s kind of melodic in an alien and unearthly way.
Voxel Mitosis
An intro that sounds like it was ripped from a riff in Cryptopsy – Graves of the Fathers. This segues into one hell of a weird, grinding riff. At 2:00 the song suddenly changes direction, going from a somewhat meandering bass/guitar section to a killer blast part. At 2:50 another sudden change, from there it goes into another hyperblast section. There is a cool riff at 3:45 or so. The sudden changes make this song very unpredictable, I like it a lot.
Fragments
Not a song, but a really weird, ambient, somewhat unnerving 15-second sample. I wish they used more of these, it works very well with their sound.
Ylem
There are about 5 different riffs in the first 30 seconds of this song. The song is so unpredictable, constantly changing, that it’s difficult to follow sometimes. I can’t even begin to go into detail on it, but it’s one of my favorites. It must have 80 riffs, and it’s only 3 and a half minutes long. The only part that gets boring, is in the middle, there is this part with murderous vocals and it’s very repetitive. It’s done that way on purpose. Phlegeton sounds like he is determined to kill you with his subsonic gutteral belches. It soon gets back the the usual routine for this song, that is, no routine; change riffs and sounds every 15 seconds. At about 3:15, there is a crunchy, grinding, sinister riff played over hyperblasts, excellent ending to the song.
Planisphærium
This is the title track (betcha couldn’t have guessed that!) and as a title track should, it pretty much sums up the album. Monstrous vocals, incredibly brutal guitars, bass-guitar bits, well done drumming with signature “random” snare hits. I.E., during slower parts, the drummer sometimes sounds like he’s just randomly hitting the snare. At 3:00, it has a part with intermittent guitars, deadly vocals, and continual blasts in the background. I noticed the band likes to do this a lot. After than comes a grinding, ambient section (just a few seconds) then the song wraps up.
Pulses in Rhombus Form
This is very possible my favorite song on the album. It starts off as pretty average Wormed, but soon segues into an absolutely frantic hyperblast section, then another one that reminds me of Cryptopsy, then finally some really weird-sounding part at 1:00. I can’t really describe it; it’s one of those parts that kinds of melodic, but kind of not. After that we get a weird part; (again?) Phlegetons vocals trade off for some kind of raspy, strangled shout. At 1:35 we get an awesome riff that sounds like it was not written on planet Earth. It reminds me a lot of Demilich’s stuff. Unfortunately it only lasts a few seconds, but the parts that come after it are similar and very alien-sounding. Phlegeton throws in a few croaks and snores along with his standard belching roar, and, IT’S OVER TOO SOON! The shortest song of the album, and also my favorite. So sad.
Dehydrating
This has Phlegetons best vocal performance, at the start he seems to be having a roar-off with himself. Then he snorts, squelches, and makes all kinds of weird sounds I can’t even begin to describe. If you want to hear the most demonic, inhuman vocal performance ever, check this song out. Virgin ears will most certainly lose control of their sphincter muscle upon hearing this. At 2:00, everything stops for about a second, but it seems like much longer, and the effect is like running towards the edge of a cliff and skidding to a halt, teetering on the precipice and waiting for the music to come back. Some weird spoken word part follows this, with the loudness of the guitars and so forth you can barely hear it. A really good riff, one of the best ones in the song, comes out to kick your as.s at 2:45 or so. Then, with one last deranged vomit, the album is over, and you are a weeping mass of bloody pulp, crushed and pummeled to paste.
Now, there are a few drawbacks. First of all, the production. I mentioned it earlier. Secondly, with the exception of Pulses…, the songs all sound the same. And finally, the album is only 25 minutes long. You heard me, 25 minutes. Though I question the ability of the human body to stand up to more than half an hour of music at this level of brutality, it will definitely leave some people wanting more.
I hope that for their next album, Wormed can really whip themselves into shape, sharpen their songwriting and production, and release something truly spectacular.
4.5/5
Phlegeton - Vocals
Guillemoth - Bass
Andy C. - Drums
Charly – Guitars
(from Madrid, Spain)
Artist description
Experimental Hyper Brutal Death from Madrid. WORMED is a mental state in which the human being dwells inside this immense universe, like a small "worm" inside an "intestine," (the Universe). And how he feels when realises that he cannot get outside of it. The necessity of crossing to beyond, something as being caught in a pre-dimension. It isn’t anything material, it is simply a way of naming a deep human emotion, we call this feeling WORMED.The music of WORMED try to create a sub-world atmospheres with deep bass sound and powerfullblasting drums and ultra gutural growls explain the diferent phases of the process in the GeodesicDome and the universe holes chaos, suggesting a new form of music wraping the listeners in anextreme spiral volumetric dimension of torture and confusion ...All lyrics concept in WORMED explain the "chapters" of this confused space and what this spacecan compress all dimensions in one to create a hole in the universe.The Geodesic Dome is the "ne plus ultra" point in space that is able to make that dimension portal.The concept of this MCD* is based on a star system located in the external space near Centaur A . Like a means of transport by which a series of phases are completed in the space/ time. Each topic is one of these phases, but they are all related to each other.It’s a history of several chapters all represented in geometric figures, for example: what appears on the cover artwork is one of the eight ectoplasmic spheres that feed the Geodesic Dome (the Octahedron that appears inside the MCD). This Dome is the centre of the system by which we pass to another dimension.This is only the concept of the MCD "Floating Cadaver in the monochrome". WORMED´s brand new full-length* will be the threshold to this dimension.
Music Style
Experimental Hyper Brutal Death Metal
*The MCD spoken of is the band’s EP, “Floating Cadaver In The Monochrome”.
*The new full-length is the new album, Planisphærium.
All footnotes are the addition of the almighty Lord Dargon.
The above is the band’s description of themselves, their music, and their philosophies. If you got anything out of the above, it should be that this is no ordinary death metal. Even the bands logo is composed of various mathematical symbols. Fusing the insane, shredding hypergrind of Cryptopsy with the alien brutality of Demilich, Wormed are creating their own little niche in the death metal world, best described by their own moniker, “Expermental Hyper Ultra Brutal Death Metal.”
The vocals would have to be my favorite thing about the whole album (aside from the occasional quantum physics reference in the lyrics.) Death metal vocals get called “inhuman” all the time. However, these are vocals which truly deserve the name. The vocalist, Phlegeton, is capable of uttering the weirdest, most brutal and unearthly sounds you will ever hear. Even the borborygmic rhinoceros in Demilich can’t match him. He makes Lord Worm sound like a castrated altar boy. (Well not quite.) For me, this guy really makes Wormed’s sound. He’s unbelievable.
The rest of the musicians do pretty well. Guitar is well executed. The drummer can’t match the raging speed of Pete Sandoval or Flo Mounier, but he uses some weird dissynchronous passages and solid hyperblasts. The bass playing has pretty good slapping/picking/whatever that weird sounding stuff is called, and has an occasional one-second solo. Overall, the band is so crushingly, absurdly brutal that there is no room for guitar leads, they mainly just flatten you with their heaviness.
The production is a bit bottom-end, and sometimes the music is lost in a mess of brutality.
Tunnel of Ions
We get a good sampling of Phlegetons ridiculous bellows, snores, belches, and what sounds a stomach gurgle originating from somewhere within his rectum at around 1:30.
There is a weird melodic (? Huh ?) bit around 2:18 with kind of ambient guitars in the background, quietly mixing with the brutal stuff in the foreground. This is a pretty generic Wormed song, and provides a good overview of just what the hell you’re getting yourself into listening to this.
Geodesic Dome
Good intro. Frenzied chords, then a weird snore/groan from Phlegeton gets this on its feet. The riffing in this song is pretty easy to hear, unlike some of the muddy songs. Technical riffing around 1:00, then a crazy bass guitar bart at about 1:45. At 2:00, everything fades out except Phlegetons vocals, and he does another one of the pulsing, grating snores that downright SCARE me. The man is a monstrosity. Then, just half a minute later, it goes into an ambient section with – spoken words? This weirdness resurfaces in later songs also. It only last a couple of seconds before transitioning into an awesome section of immense brutality, but if you listen really close, you can just make out the guitars doing something in the background, that’s kind of melodic in an alien and unearthly way.
Voxel Mitosis
An intro that sounds like it was ripped from a riff in Cryptopsy – Graves of the Fathers. This segues into one hell of a weird, grinding riff. At 2:00 the song suddenly changes direction, going from a somewhat meandering bass/guitar section to a killer blast part. At 2:50 another sudden change, from there it goes into another hyperblast section. There is a cool riff at 3:45 or so. The sudden changes make this song very unpredictable, I like it a lot.
Fragments
Not a song, but a really weird, ambient, somewhat unnerving 15-second sample. I wish they used more of these, it works very well with their sound.
Ylem
There are about 5 different riffs in the first 30 seconds of this song. The song is so unpredictable, constantly changing, that it’s difficult to follow sometimes. I can’t even begin to go into detail on it, but it’s one of my favorites. It must have 80 riffs, and it’s only 3 and a half minutes long. The only part that gets boring, is in the middle, there is this part with murderous vocals and it’s very repetitive. It’s done that way on purpose. Phlegeton sounds like he is determined to kill you with his subsonic gutteral belches. It soon gets back the the usual routine for this song, that is, no routine; change riffs and sounds every 15 seconds. At about 3:15, there is a crunchy, grinding, sinister riff played over hyperblasts, excellent ending to the song.
Planisphærium
This is the title track (betcha couldn’t have guessed that!) and as a title track should, it pretty much sums up the album. Monstrous vocals, incredibly brutal guitars, bass-guitar bits, well done drumming with signature “random” snare hits. I.E., during slower parts, the drummer sometimes sounds like he’s just randomly hitting the snare. At 3:00, it has a part with intermittent guitars, deadly vocals, and continual blasts in the background. I noticed the band likes to do this a lot. After than comes a grinding, ambient section (just a few seconds) then the song wraps up.
Pulses in Rhombus Form
This is very possible my favorite song on the album. It starts off as pretty average Wormed, but soon segues into an absolutely frantic hyperblast section, then another one that reminds me of Cryptopsy, then finally some really weird-sounding part at 1:00. I can’t really describe it; it’s one of those parts that kinds of melodic, but kind of not. After that we get a weird part; (again?) Phlegetons vocals trade off for some kind of raspy, strangled shout. At 1:35 we get an awesome riff that sounds like it was not written on planet Earth. It reminds me a lot of Demilich’s stuff. Unfortunately it only lasts a few seconds, but the parts that come after it are similar and very alien-sounding. Phlegeton throws in a few croaks and snores along with his standard belching roar, and, IT’S OVER TOO SOON! The shortest song of the album, and also my favorite. So sad.
Dehydrating
This has Phlegetons best vocal performance, at the start he seems to be having a roar-off with himself. Then he snorts, squelches, and makes all kinds of weird sounds I can’t even begin to describe. If you want to hear the most demonic, inhuman vocal performance ever, check this song out. Virgin ears will most certainly lose control of their sphincter muscle upon hearing this. At 2:00, everything stops for about a second, but it seems like much longer, and the effect is like running towards the edge of a cliff and skidding to a halt, teetering on the precipice and waiting for the music to come back. Some weird spoken word part follows this, with the loudness of the guitars and so forth you can barely hear it. A really good riff, one of the best ones in the song, comes out to kick your as.s at 2:45 or so. Then, with one last deranged vomit, the album is over, and you are a weeping mass of bloody pulp, crushed and pummeled to paste.
Now, there are a few drawbacks. First of all, the production. I mentioned it earlier. Secondly, with the exception of Pulses…, the songs all sound the same. And finally, the album is only 25 minutes long. You heard me, 25 minutes. Though I question the ability of the human body to stand up to more than half an hour of music at this level of brutality, it will definitely leave some people wanting more.
I hope that for their next album, Wormed can really whip themselves into shape, sharpen their songwriting and production, and release something truly spectacular.
4.5/5