Wormed turned plenty of heads with 2003's Planisphaerium, a real shit-kicker of a debut that renovated the standard Unique Leader/United Guttural toilet bowl sound into a towering fortress of avant sci-fi slam. While one might expect a ten-year gap between full-lengths to either severely dilute the band's intensity or transform them even further into something utterly not of this Earth, Exodromos...Read More

10 years is a long time to wait for a band to bring out their second album but with Spain’s Wormed finally releasing Exodromos, the time spent has been well worth it. What first hits you is the maturity of the songs and how far the members have advanced since the release of the now classic Planisphaerium. Song structure is evidently clearer on this release with the band driving the music...Read More

If you can picture yourself sitting in the darkest space imaginable for years with nothing more than a pen to record and isolate your thoughts you would barely begin to scrape the cell splitting, mind melting insanity that is about to melt you like a subatomic bomb. Earth is dead. Too bad you're not. Exodromos is the second full length by Brazilian technical death metal unit Wormed. It has been...Read More

Anyone who follows me on Twitter or Facebook knows that when it comes to Wormed, I am a bit of a fan girl. The epically long-haired Spaniards seem to hit the spot with me every time, so when I received their newest release, Exodromos, I literally threw myself about the living room in glee. One strong aspect is the control that remains from start to finish. It erupts into electrifying brutality...Read More

10 years ago my ears were blessed with Wormed's first full length Planisphaerium. It was unlike anything I had ever really heard. It was incredibly brutal and unique. The riffs were spastic and incredibly heavy. The drumming was amazing and all over the place. The whole aura of the album just hits like a ton of bricks. Seeing them live in 2005 at Maryland Deathfest cemented them as one of my...Read More

Wormed, Spain’s brutal purveyors of tech-death, have been gestating for about a decade before finally dropping Exodromos; the much-anticipated follow-up to their widely acclaimed 2003 debut, Planisphaerium. Maybe it was my mindset at the time but their debut didn’t really move me in the way it rumbled the underground. Not that it’s a bad album by any means, just not the...Read More

In no way do I consider myself an expert on death metal. I was always more of a clean singing guy. The big four were about as heavy as I got. One day, I watched the video for Death’s “Lack of Comprehension”. It had a creepy feel and I was intrigued by the sound. Then I heard “Spheres of Madness” from Decapitated in 2003. I was hooked! My musical tastes started getting...Read More

There was a time when Wormed were one of the names to drop in death metal circles. The Spanish tech-death outfit caused a huge stir back in 2003 with their debut Planisphærium, then pretty much disappeared for a decade, with the odd split CD or EP being the only signs of life in the interim. The key thing that made that first record so great was its utterly polarising, full-assault approach...Read More

Change doesn’t have to be dramatic to be significant, especially when the system you’re changing is a very restrictive one. Wormed play hyper-brutal Technical Death Metal that could best be described as a combination of Origin’s lightspeed technicality and the stop-start spazziness of And Then You’ll Beg era Cryptopsy with gore-grind style guttural pig vocals. It’s...Read More

Even though they sound like they come from the eleventh dimension, Wormed are actually from Spain. Their over-the-top brand of experimental brutal death metal is instantly recognizable even though they’ve only released one album and one EP. They’ve still managed to build a devoted fanbase, and their sophomore album Exodromos has been on the radar for extreme metal enthusiasts for a...Read More

If you’re a fan of technical death metal, odds are you already know about Spain’s sci-fi themed brutal tech masters Wormed and have been waiting with bated breath ever since you first heard word of Exodromos. For those not familiar with Wormed, they put out one highly regarded album (Planisphærium) in the early 2000s and then weren’t heard from again for close to a decade,...Read More

Since the release of their 2003 debut album, Planisphærium, Wormed have been one of the most respected brutal death metal bands of modern time. Rarely criticized and often praised, the Spain born group have been active since 1998 and previously released one full-length, one EP, two demos, a single and a split album. While Wormed released the EP Quasineutrality in 2012, fans world wide have...Read More

Hard to believe it’s been a decade since Wormed took us into the maw of the death metal black hole with Planisphaerium; in that time, numerous bands have attempted to rip off the quintet’s science fiction-influenced brutality, but none have been able to measure up to the intergalactic maelstrom these Spaniards were capable of unleashing so effortlessly with their stunning debut. At...Read More