Track Premiere: Grave Hex‘s “Steeping Master Worm Flesh”
Please, Lord Worm is my father!
Despite their crucial role in the scene’s health, decomposers (colloquially known as “OSDM revivalists”) are often viewed as vile, lowly creatures, fit only to burrow through the disintegrating remains of Autopsy LPs for sustenance. This slander cannot stand; without their services, we’d be up to our necks in bloated prog death bodies without so much as an HM-2 pedal to pass down to our primary producers (or as oldheads call them, the youths). Now, through the annals of Annelida, through decades of death metal detritus crawl the young worms in Grave Hex. The time has come to sink into your favorite rotting spot and let this exclusive premiere dig into you.
These invertebrates had the following to say about “Steeping Master Worm Flesh:”
“Steeping Master Worm Flesh” is one of the first songs made for Grave Hex. The song is written in a spontaneous, deranged state of mind, capturing the putrid raw energy needed to be unleashed when we started the band. The visualizer gives the song a bit more of a darker tone as the video is more about the tendency of our species to destroy ourselves, yet in the end… ‘All, all must bow down to the worm and the grave.’
The song’s structure is skeletal by design: bare bones of ’90s Swedeath bleach in the sun, scabbed intermittently with melodic tissue—reminiscent of Abducted-era Hypocrisy—for the picky eaters. A crust of punk influence coats the track’s mid-section, all skank beats and moss pits, before breaking down into a slurry of slimy, satisfying deathgrind. There’s an elegance to the simplicity on display here; beauty in an ancient form that, despite existing in a rapidly changing world, continues to thrive by its primordial tools. They may lack spines, but the folks in Grave Hex know how to move through the underground. They’ll surely surface again when the chyme is ripe.
Vermian Death releases August 22 through Night Terrors Records and can be streamed on Bandcamp.
