WORMHOLE Make New Track ‘Spine Shatter High-Velocity Impact’ Available For Streaming
August 22nd, 2023
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American death metal band Wormhole have made the track ‘Spine Shatter High-Velocity Impact’ available for streaming via YouTube, which can be accessed below.
Regarding the song, the band stated: “This song has our hero struggling as they make their last stand. They’re desperately trying to rally, but despite their rage they just keep falling apart. Is the impossible really going to happen? Is our hero, the one we love and cherish so much, really going to lose?”
Wormhole issue third full-length studio album Almost Human on September 22nd, 2023 through Season Of Mist.
“The tech slam imagery is based on metroid lore, doom lore, and we haven’t written a song about it yet, but Alien as well,” commented guitarist Sanjay “Noni” Kumar in referencing to the vibe Wormhole chase. “Those three things are brutal sci-fi universes, so we’re trying to embody that sound. The slam riffs, you can connect the brutal killing of stuff with the brutal chunky riffs; that’s been a match that’s existed since the nineties. So that’s the slam part, and then the tech part was harder to fit that vibe, so we kind of do it differently. I lean into very dissonance-vibe stuff, like Artificial Brain and Dysrhythmia. I think disso-death and heavy, they aren’t usually paired together, even though they should be.”
“And then as far as chasing the vibe,” Noni adds, “I kind of go about it two ways. With the Metroid soundtrack or universe, that vibe, there’s some dark and gloomy atmosphere, but there’s a lot of pretty imagery as well. We wanted to find a way to match that very pretty, kind of out-there sound cohesively in songs with a very aggressive and guttural approach.”
Guitars and vocals for Almost Human were recorded at Wormhole HQ, while drums were recorded at AJ Viana Productions. Production and engineering was handled by Wormhole and AJ Viana, while bass parts were produced and engineered by Alex Weber.
Mixing was undertaken by AJ Viana at AJ Viana Productions, with mastering being helmed by Alan Douches.
Cover artwork was designed by Adam Burke at Nightjar Illustration.
The track listing is as follows:
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01. ‘System Erase’
02. ‘Elysiism’
03. ‘Spine Shatter High-Velocity Impact’
04. ‘Data Fortress Orbital Stationary’
05. ‘Delta Labs’
06. ‘Almost Human’
07. ‘Bleeding Teeth Fungus’
08. ‘The Grand Oscillation’
Wormhole’s line-up is as follows:
Julian Kersey (vocals)
Sanil Kumar (guitars)
Sanjay Kumar (guitars)
Basil Chiasson (bass)
Matt Tillett (drums)
Music videos were filmed for the tracks ‘System Erase’ and ‘Elysiism’. Both clips can be viewed below.
Second studio record The Weakest Among Us was released in January 2020 via Lacerated Enemy Records.
Promotional photograph by Scott Kinkade.
