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 Posted 09-01-2006 22:02 by thespian |
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Wormfood is een geniale band, naar mijn mening. Niet echt doom, maar wel een "doom sfeer". Ze zitten trouwens op Code 666. Hier een recensie van je collega bij Vampire:
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Avantgardists worldwide unite, and feast on the blood on the insane! I think this will be the first enounter for most metalheads with the French band Wormfood. And therefore it will be a rather big surprise to most of them who take the chance to dig up this album, simply called "France". France and 'avantgarde' seem to go hand in hand all the time in all differen aspects of cultural (or semi-cultural) elements that the enriches the country. French metal is getting more and more interesting with every year and this Wormfood is clearly trying to combine all of the styles and all of the last few hundred years of musical heritage into one incredibly varied disc to cath up with the rest of the world by releasing only one album. They come rather close with this "France"…
Wormfood manages to combine all the creative elements from different genres, resulting in a blistering blend of black metal, death metal, doom metal, darkmetal, darkwave and elements from the gothic scene as well. All well served with a humour that mostly reminds on the way Peter Steele presented his works with Type O Negative and Carnivore (not very surprisingly the Japanese version of "France" comes with a cover of Type O Negative's "Christain Woman" baptized as "Femme Chrétienne"), black humour at its best. Yet, combining just a few metal genres wouldn't necessarily mean that the presented material is highly original nor good. But the way Wormfood combines the music with loads of remarkably strange aspects that seem directly taken from the book of horror, from the circus and the fair all at once - the result is something that comes rather close to vaudeville and reminds me most on the music by musical centipede Snowy Shaw's Notre Dame. If you think a band like Finntroll, Notre Dame and Carnival In Coal are varied and full of fun, than Wormfood might be your band. It is also not very much a surprise that Alex Wursthorn from Carnival In Coal was the producer for this album - who did his job remarkably well by the way - and it is also not a very surprising that the guys in Wormfood will be Carnival In Coal's live band in the near future. It might all be clear, this is a great album for the open minded, and for those who miss Notre Dame and feel the need to fill up the gap they left after them throwing in the towel, Wormfood is pretty much THE band to get your eyes on. Without sounding like a copycat or having the intention to be the same, both bands will clearly share the same audience.
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