Rewind almost 3 years and a couple of old friends got together to make a
heavy depressing/empowering racket. Formed by Chris Pupecki perhaps
better known as guitarist in Doomriders
and their original drummer Chris
Bevilacqua, these Boston natives debuted their self titled EP,
via PATAC Records/ Magic
Bullet Records, 5 tracks that were driven by a bestial, hard-hitting
mid-tempo grind and a distinctly unpolished, ugly, and bottomless bass rumble, the
discordant ooze of guitars with effect-laden sludge atmospherics that
consistently unsettled you with brutally effective tritonal dissonance before
spacing you out with smooth doomed slow jam riffs.
WORMWOOD's debut was a sonic
nightmare from, a dark, psychedelic
journey of fuzzed out doom metal and stoner-dirge riffs that shattered all
pre-conceptions… WORMWOOD
pours out of your stereo like a plague of carrion insects and make
no mistake the pedigree of this band is mouth watering, with members of Phantom Glue and The Red Chord rounding
off this quartet. Now following 3 years in the wilderness, on October 20th 2017, WORMWOOD will issue their debut full length “Mooncurse” on Translation Loss
Records, arguably the best underground label on the scene today and we recently caught up with the
band to get the low down on new record.
"It's less standard
"doom" this time around and now has elements of sludge, some
psychedelic moments, guitar harmonies, quieter pretty parts and even a couple
noise rock moments. All in all though I feel it blends together nicely without
sounding like a patchwork of genres and it still retains the darkness, anger
and bite of our original release, just maybe more interesting ear candy
happening now."
"It does have an
apocalyptic feel or a feel of isolation/rejection/depression that tends to come
up lyrically as well as sonically. I truly believe playing heavy music is the
greatest therapy in the world, and so for me, all the darkest stuff in the
recesses of my mind seems to come up and kind of release while I play and I
always feel better afterwards...for a little while at least."
With
a release date set for 20/10/2017, a new label and preorders for the record
already open (here),
you
can get your first taste of the new record with an exclusive stream of the
track “The Undesirables” below,
which is unapologetically crushing. We hope you dig it. Forfeit life to WORMWOOD
Live Rituals
Direct support for ALL PIGS MUST DIE
10/19 - Saint Vitus, NY
10/20 - Great Scott, Allston, MA
10/19 - Saint Vitus, NY
10/20 - Great Scott, Allston, MA
Band info: facebook
