Genre: Funeral Doom
Origin: Finland
Release Date: 2006
Label: Painiac Records
Wormphlegm is just as vile and slimy as the name of the band suggests. Formed by the same two people in Tyranny, a band more in the style of Thergothon, this album has caused quite a stir in the funeral doom scene. This album is suffocating, it will crush you: but that's to be expected. It will terrify you, it will not let go, and it will draw you in for the entire duration, which is more than I can say for most funeral doom bands, and this album is over an hour long.
The production is perfect. It isn't by any means clean, but the sound of the instruments just reeks of pure evil. The album is sloooow, but not boring. While one guitar plays a dirty, slimy chord, one plays "melodies" that make you feel as if you are the king's tomb itself. Not to mention the riffs, which feel like a tital wave of black slime suffocating you. The band uses the speed of the music to it's advantage, making use of the silence as a creepy soundtrack of itself, when it leaves you with wonder of what is coming next. Will it be another ball-crushing riff? Maybe another uterry terrible scream?
Which leads me to my next point: The vocals. This is where the band gets flogged the most by people, but they are really what sets this band apart from everybody else. There is the gritty low growl, and the high pitched shriek that needs to be heard to be believed (listen to the opening vocals on the title track!).
Eh, enough of my rambling. This is looong out of print, so good luck finding a copy (search metal-archives?). Here is a link, though, since I lov...I mean, hate, you all so much.
| 1. | Epejumalat monet tesse muinen palveltin caucan ja lesse | 30:15 | |
| 2. | Tomb of the Ancient King | 13:18 | |
| 3. | Return of the Ice Age and the Tortyrant | 17:32 | |
| Total playing time | 01:01:05 | ||
Metal-Archives
Soundtrack to Torture
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