Spain-based brutal/technical death metal band Wormed will release their new album Omegon tomorrow, Friday, July 5th, via Season Of Mist. A full audio stream of the album can be found below.
Space – the final frontier. But when Wormed ventures into the void, the results sound more like a dark space opera, inhabited by bizarre aliens, genetically and technologically evolved metahumans fighting for power and survival in galactic empires. Now the nanotechnological war in the void has been unleashed to defeat the last sower of human life, Krighsu!
Odd time signatures, avalanches of breaks and complex rhythmic and melodic patterns will delight any lover of extreme technique, while growls, downtuned strings and double bass attacks will more than satisfy extreme metal connoisseurs. Although Wormed are extraordinarily talented musicians, they avoid any self-satisfied display of skill for its own sake. Instead, the five-person band from Madrid clearly places their emphasis on creating atmospheric songs that develop and grow along the underlying story.
Wormed, who emerged from the Spanish capital Madrid in 1998, made an immediate impression on the death metal scene with the release of their MCD Floating Cadaver In The Monochrome (1999). After a promo CD entitled Voxel Mitosis (2001), their first studio album Planisphaerium received great acclaim from critics and fans alike in 2003. In the wake of their debut album, the Spaniards received invitations to international festival appearances and tours around the globe. Wormed performed in Japan together with Goratory and Vomit Remnants and then conquered Europe with Malignancy and Despondency.
A creative hiatus, partly due to lineup changes and filled with reissues of their previous releases as well as the single “Quasineutrality” (2010), finally ended when their second album Exodromos came out in 2013. On their third album Krighsu (2016), the up-and-coming Spanish sci-fi tech-death prodigies tell a dystopian cosmic story, with lyrics and music woven into an overarching concept. Their intense brutality, dissonant dynamic riffing and tremendous heaviness combined with an astonishing futuristic concept that introduced the character Krighsu – the last human in the cosmos – garnered top reviews and landed Wormed a headlining gig in the US and a co-headlining gig in Europe.
In the summer of 2019, Wormed took their ultra-technical cosmic sonic assault to new heights on their 4-track EP Metaportal, released via Season of Mist. The EP was praised as a hugely satisfying addition to their catalog, bridging the gap between their previously released 2016’s Krighsu and their latest project. Atmospheric yet true to the skull-crushing, mind-bending textures they’ve offered their fans over the years, Metaportal allowed Wormed to process the loss of Guillermo Calero in 2018 and move on.
On Omegon, Wormed’s upcoming 2024 release, they continue the story of Krigshu, a timeline hacker caught up in manipulation by cosmic forces. As vicious as the aggression they display with their technically impressive instruments, Krigshu fights his way to unlock the secrets of Omegon, a mysterious cosmic substance that holds ultimate power. With 9 tracks of ultimate interstellar chaos, a story unfolds and Wormed prove once again that they have mastered the genre of technical death metal.
Available formats:
– Digital Download
– CD Digipak
– 12″ vinyl gatefold cover – Black
– 12″ colored vinyl gatefold cover – White
– 12″ colored vinyl gatefold cover – Transparent Blue
– 12″ colored vinyl gatefold cover – blue, black and white marbled
Order here.
Song list:
“Automaton Virtue”
“Pareidolia Robotics”
“Protogod”
“Pleoverse Omninertia”
“Malevolent Nexus”
“Virtual Teratogenesis”
“Etheric Transdimensionalization”
“Gravitational Servo Matrix”
“Omegon”
Album stream:
Video “Automaton Virtue”:
Align:
Phlegethon – Vocals
Migueloud – Guitars
D-Kazar – Guitars
Guillemoth – Bass
V-Kazar – drums
