Album of the Week #17: Wormrot - Voices
This is Album of the Week #17 ~ This week's album is Wormrot - Voices
Year of Release: 2016
Genre(s): Grindcore
Country: Singapore
Length: 26 minutes
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Excerpt from Angry Metal Guy:
Natural though it may be, there’s something very special about how Voices draws from outside the walls of grindcore. It’s adventurous but just sounds so… obvious. This is just the sort of thing Wormrot do: write so well, perform so tightly, that whatever they’re doing just seems inevitable. Effortless, perhaps. Voices is loud, violent, and brutal, but it also restrained, as if measured in micrograms of controlled adrenaline and delivered intravenously. Like last year’s offering from Beaten to Death, this is a unique and immensely enjoyable take on grindcore that’s a true flame-bearer of the genre and won’t be wanting for love on the year-end lists of the abrasively inclined.
Discussion points:
Have you heard this artist/album before? Is this your first time hearing?
Do you enjoy this genre? Is this an album you would have chosen?
Does this album remind you of something you've heard before?
What were the album's strengths or weaknesses?
Was there a standout track for you?
How did you hear the album? Where were you? What was your setup?
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Live video from Obscene Extreme festival 2018, where people climb up the stage to stage dive literally in the first 5 seconds of the set, at 7:37 you can see a dude climb up the stage, pull off his own prosthetic leg and dance one-legged waving it above his head and I'm sure there other fun things in the video.
I don't really listen to grindcore, but the scene can be incredibly fun.
Grindcore is not a genre I listen to that much and mostly the big names like Carcass, Napalm Death, Brutal Truth and Regurgitate. So this was a first time and it is interesting. Definitely on the more varied and experimental side of things, at least for grindcore which often gets kind of samey. Quite groovy at times. The sound and production is actually quite clean, and not totally muddled as some of the older Carcass stuff. Will likely give more of their stuff a listen.
Grindcore is something i listened a lot in the past, but it gets kinda tiring after some years of it.
Wormrot is one exception. Another recent release that i've been listening a lot is Karras - We Poison Their Young. Give it a go.
Great recommendation. Really enjoy this release.
Oh wow didn't expect this here. Wormrot is a fantastic band and this album is probably one of the best grind albums of all time for me.
There is a legendary tour coming through in march that's wormrot, pig destroyer and napalm death. Things are gonna be wild for that.