Genesis

I never really liked the slam/brutal death metal genre, (Except for a bit of Disentomb) mainly because the vocals are atrocious, the quality is almost always very shitty, there are no significant melodies, and they would always be signed up with a record label with some absolutely fucking stupid name, like Nice To Eat You or Goregiastic Records. I am a fan of the more technical and side of metal, but I had never actually heard it blended in with brutal death metal. The result of the two mixed together is the sound of anger and brutality.

Genesis to me was somewhat memorable mainly because of how monstrous this album is. The insane guitar riffs, the rapid blast beats, the guttural vocals and the absolute haste and speed this album has makes people question if the members are human. Wormhole also has some pretty decent recording quality compared to many other brutal death bands, making this much more enjoyable and listenable to. What really impresses me is how these guys can produce music with such speed and overall just have the ability to play like this, yet their such an underrated and undervalued band. And for a brutal death band, the melodies are actually pretty catchy and even a bit groovy at times. But the one thing that bothers me about this album is its length. Only standing at about 27 minutes, this short time makes it a bit harder to sink into and absorb the album. Though I am glad that all the songs are about average length, rather than having more progressive and longer songs.

Wormhole plays with full potential and commitment, resulting in a monumental and insane creation of swirling brutality and pummeling force. Genesis is played with immense speed, making it a hell of a lot of fun to listen to.

Forged just in 2015, multinational brutal death metallers Wormhole have gathered an impressive roster of scene veterans together into a wholly technical, blistering compilation of all things brutal and heavy for one impressive and pummeling offering. Wasting no time unleashing their twisting, turning brand of attack, the group unleashes its full-length debut November 30, 2016 on Lacerated Enemy Records.

Given the stellar musicianship behind this one, it’s little surprise that this one manages to come across as brutal and pummeling as it does. It’s effortless how this can switch up from offering frenzied razor-wire churning riff-work filled with utterly dynamic, twisting technical patterns that are just as strong in concept as they are in execution when they’re bathed in these complex, challenging patterns that dominate the album. Coupled together with a more traditional series of churning riffing patterns as well as melodic accents alongside that stellar mixture of swirling technicality and a generous helping of ferocious slams within here, this one comes across with a more fully-formed and impressive mixture of brutal and technical elements than expected for a debut offering. Bringing out the mechanical technicality with the swarm of slams throughout this one makes for a thunderous, brutal offering which manages to work wonders for the atmosphere of this one, yet that also brings up the album’s one main detriment in that this one does manage to sound so clean and thunderous that it really loses a lot of its individuality in what’s going on in the album. There’s so much blasting and twisting, turning technical slamming featured here that it all comes off as rather routine and one-dimensional which really does hold this one down. Otherwise, there’s not much to dislike this one.

With some rather enjoyable elements throughout here and some minor flaws that strike this one down, this one is a rather nice and enjoyable debut effort that works nicely enough for fans of the members’ acts involved in this project or fans of the vicious, mechanical-sounding brutal death metal sound.