WOORMS Debut Album Slake Due Jan. 18; New Song Streaming
Sludgy all-caps Louisiana noisemakers WOORMS have set a Jan. 18 release for their debut album, Slake. To be released through Hospital Records, the 10-song outing comes prefaced by two to-date preview tracks, the latest of which is “Find a Meal, Find a Bed, Find a God,” which you can stream at the bottom of this post because the future blah blah. Low distortion and a massive rollout pervade, but the deeper into the song you dig, the more you find ambience alongside that bombast, and there’s a weirdo blues post-Eagle Twin thing happening on the vocals as well that only adds to the swampy malevolence.
It’s big, it’s nasty, and it sounds like there’s plenty more in store for the rest of the album. Also, kudos to the band for naming a song “Veni Vedi Fucki.” Nicely done.
Album art and details, as per the PR wire:
Schizoid Noise/Doom trio WOORMS to release debut album in January | Grab your free download of new single ‘Find a Meal, Find a Bed, Find a God’
Slake, the debut album by WOORMS is officially released 18th January 2019 on Hospital Records
For your free download of new song ‘Find a Meal, Find a Bed, Find a God’ head to – https://woorms.bandcamp.com/album/find-a-meal-find-a-bed-find-a-god-single
Formed in 2017 in Louisiana, WOORMS – featuring guitarist/vocalist Joey Carbo, bassist John Robinson, and drummer Aaron Polk – are something of a sleeping colossus. Based in Baton Rouge, the band has been delivering a devastating and brutal mélange of riffs and noise-rock righteousness on the precipice of significance for some time.
Yet despite only being a year or so into their sonic existence WOORMS has already racked up a number of releases; a collection of demos, digital one-offs (‘Daddy Was A Masker,’ ‘The Math Says, Yes’) and a split with NOLA thrashers, A Hanging. Last month, WOORMS returned with the first sanctioned cut from their debut album, Slake (which gets its official release this January). Fully stirred from a delirious slumber, we now have a second cut, ‘Find a Meal, Find a Bed, Find a God’ which, for all intents and purposes is the perfect introduction to the band; a lumbering, symphonic noise-rock shank fight between the fattest of riffs and the thinnest of patience with the world at large. Making for a devastatingly terse and perverse experience, from the pinnacle to the point of no return, it falls psychotically through the fuzz and unholy grind of bands like KARP, Jesus Lizard and Neurosis. Lead vocalist/guitarist Joey Carbo explains:
“Every person is a perfectly unfucked being at the outset.
The birth process takes care of all that.
This is like my ninety-ninth misanthropy song and, hopefully, it’s my best on the subject.
A fetus finds itself free of need or want; coming into consciousness in a dark and warm, red cloud.
Head down in the water.
It’s all downhill from there – as they say. And the greatest minds of any era: the artists and thinkers and titans of science, they all had a few things in common. Three, to my mind. They would need food and shelter and most of them would create or find (or be subject to) a god or group of gods.
You’ll also need a job out here. You may find it necessary to kill, to do terrifying things. All things considered, it’s a rigged game and a shit show from one end to the other.
What were you thinking?
Best you stay in there, in the water.”
Slake, the debut album by WOORMS is officially released 18th January 2019 on Hospital Records
TRACK LISTING FOR SLAKE:
1. Corpse Corps
2. Find a Meal Find a Bed Find a God
3. Veni Vidi Fucki
4. Stiff Upper Lisp
5. Urine Trouble Now
6. Mouth is a Wound
7. Our Lady of Perpetually Shitfaced
8. Racist Kevin
9. Rise Cripsy
10. Sore Afraid
WOORMS are:
Joey Carbo: guitars, vocals, noise, keys, synth
John Robinson: basses
Aaron Polk: drums
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