(written by Islander)
Today we’re a bit like a caboose pulled along at the end of a powerfully surging freight train, the train being the Canadian death metal band Goreworm rushing forward to the June 12 release of their second album Miasmic Solitude by Transcending Obscurity Records.
We’re a bit like the last car because three songs from the album have already debuted and we’re now premiering the fourth one — “No Reprieve” — though of course Transcending Obscurity might release more before we hit the June 12 mile marker.
On the other hand, the surging freight train analogy doesn’t completely fit the picture, because Goreworm’s music isn’t a straight-ahead, all-wheels-on-the-rails kind of affair, as you’ll soon witness if you haven’t already.
To be sure, “No Reprieve” moves powerfully fast and throws off dazzling sparks, but there’s a goblin furiously roaring and screaming in the locomotive, and no engineer is capable of making rails like these in three-dimensional space. Instead, with impressive technical mastery but a borderline-berserk songwriting style, all the instrumentation frantically veers — up, down, and sideways.
The drumming thunders and rattles, stops and starts, creates grooves and just as quickly scatters them into the air. The fleet-fingered fret-fiends cause their music to swarm and pulse, to shiver and boil, to manifest as derangement and to slash like massed swords.
The clear-toned soloing is mystifying and mesmerizing, bolting from slow-flowing seduction to eye-popping ecstasies, and in contrast to those dazzling glories the band also pick their moments to brutishly slug listeners and pull the trigger on high-powered cannonades with equal vigor.
If you’re in the mood for wild-eyed technical death metal so dazzling and demented that it might leave you jaw-dropped, head-spun, and gasping, you’ve come to the right place. On this fast-rushing, off-the-rails train, you’d better hang on with both hands in a white-knuckled grip.
GOREWORM is:
Robert Miller – Vocals
Jordan Estrela – Guitars
Brent Moerschfelder – Guitars/Bass
Robin Stone – Session Drums
Credit for the album’s colorfully creepy cover art goes to Leanna TenEycke.
T.O. will release Miasmic Solitude on CD and digital formats, along with lots of apparel choices, and they recommend it for fans of Arsis, Gorod, Xenosis, Fleshbore, and Obscura.
We have also included streams of those three previously released songs from Miasmic Solitude — “The Enthralling Grave“, “Amor Vincit Omnia“, and “Strelly“. They will show you some other sides of Goreworm’s bewildering amalgam of death metal proclivities.
PRE-ORDER:
https://goreworm-label.bandcamp.com/album/miasmic-solitude
http://us.tometal.com
http://eu.tometal.com
GOREWORM:
https://www.facebook.com/gorewormofficial
https://www.instagram.com/goreworm_
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I really dig this. A new band for me.