Don’t you hate it when bands just sleepwalk through their press pics? Like, it’s just a nondescript shot of some people standing around and glaring at the camera in their practice space? No blood or naked ladies or daggers or skulls or capes or candles or spiked gauntlets anywhere? Yeah, me too. Anyway, we’ve got a new song from the freaky Miami metal duo Worm.
Early next year, Worm will release Necropalace, their first album for new label home Century Media. We already posted the album’s 12-minute title track, and now they’ve followed that single with “Blackheart,” which clocks in at a relatively digestible eight minutes. This one has some truly pretty gothic doom parts. Without even the slightest fear of cheese, Worm build to cinematic rage-outs. This is the rare underground metal song that would’ve made total sense on the Lost Boys soundtrack. Here’s what singer Phantom Slaughter says about it:
We consider this to be a gothic vampire love ballad. Sharing a different kind of emotion and color than the rest of the record. The lyrics touch on the isolation and loss one feels as a child of the night. Musically, ‘Blackheart’ fuses Avantgarde Music-era Katatonia and their love of Fields Of The Nephilim with icy AOR like FM (UK), Strangeways, and Harem Scarem. We could not leave behind our Floridian heritage, so there are also frozen swamp nods to Death (Symbolic) as well as Crimson Glory.
Like “Necropalace,” “Blackheart” has a spookily theatrical video from veteran metal director and special effects/makeup artist Norman Cabrera. Check it out below.
Necropalace is out 2/13 on Century Media.
