(written by Islander)

The bare bones: The Philadelphia death metal band Vile Form features members of the grindcore trio Die Choking and the death/doom outfit Burden. Since forming up in 2024 they have released two EPs — Unending in 2024 and Death in early 2025 — and in the spring of last year they released a compilation of the two EPs titled Death Unending.

Now, to put some meat on the bones: The opener of the Death EP, which then became track 6 on Death Unending, is a song called “Orb“. Lyrically it pictures gleaming orbs in the sky, but they turn out to be the dreadful demon orbs of Vile Form’s eldritch entity Subulonagus, orbs that absorb life and disgorge what they consume to create a grotesque fortress.

What we have for you today is the premiere of Vile Form’s video for that song, a video that guitarist Jeffrey Daniels has described for us in detail: Continue reading »