Review Summary: Sounds from the deepest cosmic abyss.
Wormed is a band that I should love on paper. Their previous albums have every element that SHOULD make a great brutal/technical death metal album. Lightning fast riffage and blasts/fills and gurgling vocals with an image/lyrical content containing everything extraterrestrial. Unfortunately, the production of the previous albums didn’t stand up to the other elements that could’ve made this band a top tier death metal band. Whereas other “cosmic” death metal bands such as Blood Incantation (and Timeghoul before them) succeeded in creating a suffocating atmosphere, Wormed always seemed to come off as sterile and flat. With
Omegon, all of that has changed.
A clear difference is present from the second
Omegon starts. You’re immediately met with a disorienting flurry of blazing riffs and a blasting snare that sounds like it's metabolizing straight from the solar system. There’s a certain amount of murk and spacey savagery that was lacking in the band’s previous output. Take the breakdown at the end of Protogod for example. It is the PERFECT mixture of brutality and cosmic atmospherics and gives you a gauge of the overall improvement of these Spaniards. Wormed has learned how to balance between face melting riffage, inhuman drumming and an atmosphere akin to floating in space as your oxygen slowly drains to nothing. And the results of these tweaks to their sound are paying huge dividends.
Omegon is an album that finds a band finally reaching their potential. In a year filled with fantastic death metal releases from legendary bands, Wormed FINALLY released an album that can stack up against the best of the genre.
Omegon is 40 minutes of nonstop brutality while still emphasizing and perfecting that cosmic atmosphere that they’ve desperately been trying to create since their conception. Wormed has finally cracked the code gentlemen and the outcome is glorious.
