Wormed – Omegon (Review)

Wormed are a Spanish death metal band and this is their fourth album.

A new Wormed album – their first in eight years – is a cause for celebration. Join me then for a 4-minute journey into cosmic madness and chaos, as Wormed unleash multidimensional Hell on the monstrously formidable Omegon.

Brutal technical, merciless, and intricate, Omegon is dense and intense. It’s complex and harsh, delivering the precise surgical strike of technical death metal and the relentless devastation of brutal death metal.

Omegon is Wormed’s longest album, and contains songs that have a longer duration than is the norm for the band. This extra running time allows Wormed to flesh out their ferocious sound further, exploring every part of the spacetime anomaly that they inhabit. The other notable difference between Omegon and past Wormed releases is the production, which sounds much more organic and spacious, once again allowing the band the freedom to push their sound to its limits.

In case there is any doubt at all; this is not easy listening. This is death metal that’s labyrinthine, warped, time dilated, and distorted. Unless you’re a seasoned traveller of interstellar extremity, you might want to approach Omegon with caution and safety equipment. Wormed are not messing around with these new songs, and from the very start of the album they embrace the mayhem and drive it with furious and exacting precision. Occasional moments of atmosphere do appear, enriching the whole, but for the most part this is an unrestricted journey into controlled brutality.

Fans of Artificial Brain, Origin, Cryptopsy, Replacire, Defeated Sanity, Brodequin, etc. need to listen to this as soon as possible.