After fine-tuning their signature tech-slam combo for the better part of a decade, last year, Wormhole came writhing out of the Baltimore underground with their third album, Almost Human.
“It defies logic and science” wrote Angry Metal Guy, who named Almost Human their record of the month last September. “It’s almost like Voivod and Cynic showed up to help this ultra-heavy act add a glimmering sheen and polish to their brutal endeavors and the end result is weird, wonderful and world-eating“.
“The guitar work by the Kumar brothers sets the scenes poignantly, producing sounds that don’t even resemble instruments but more space creatures or astral vehicles“, wrote New Noise’s Michael Centrone, who named Almost Human the best metal album of 2023.
To celebrate the one-year anniversary of their belching and freakishly strong baby Almost Human, Wormhole are releasing a guitar playthrough of the album’s chunky and dissonant lead single “System Erase”.
Watch brothers Sanil and Sanjay Kumar chug and churn in gross symmetry on Ormsby Guitars YouTube channel.
https://youtu.be/SPA4GFrXvNs?si=sVJAkzsUN9rJKUA6
Almost Human is now available on Season of Mist
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“System Erase” is the first song on Almost Human and it zips the whole tech-slam experience into one tightly clenched polygon fist. Every one of Wormhole’s superpowers come together on this song, surging into one great big ball of pissed-off energy, like Samus charging up her arm cannon.
Brothers Sanil and Sanjay Kumar shoot off laser beams of glitchy guitar dissonance. Drummer Matt Tillett, along with bassist Basil Chiasson, pilot through two or three different time shifts before the breakdown comes and swallows you up with the slow, crushing force of a black hole. At the center of this vortex are the bottomless grunts of Julian Kersey, whose death growl is so fierce and rotten, you can practically smell the stench wafting through your speakers.
With Almost Human, Wormhole prove there’s no ceiling they can’t slam through.
“We aimed for a sound that’s both moody and aggressive, but also fun and engaging” Sanil and Sanjay Kumar say about writing “System Erase”. “The juxtaposition of atmospheric elements with heavy chugs reflects the real world, making it both haunting and cathartic”.
More praise for Wormhole
“Equally bizarre, interesting, heavy and yet somehow still insisting on maintaining all of the Wormhole trademarks one might’ve come to the band for in the past” – No Clean Singing
“I did not think this band could get wilder, yet they have outdone themselves” – Teeth of the Divine
“Wormhole continue to pave the way for proving that you can have both enticing instrumentation and groundshaking aggression at once” – Dead Rhetoric
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