WARPATH:

• When War Begins... (1992) Warpath plays a more old school type of metal, the riffs are almost rocking at some points, but they can still write a good song. Pretty good production, some inventive uses of clean and distorted guitars. Not really my cup of tea.

• The Dead Are Screaming (2020)
  
• What A Time To Be Alive (2021) Basically Nasum 2.0. Fast grindcore with a really sharp distorted tone. Longer songs than Nasum, but otherwise has a lot of the same vibe, really aggressive, screams and shouts, unrelented smack you in the face attitude. It's funny, the drums sound a little robotic, but apparently they're real, so who would have thunk? Nothing revolutionary here, but this is the sort of music that's just fun to thrash out to, and puts a real smile on my face. So check it out!
• From The Cave To The Grave (2022)
• My Enemies Look And Sound Like Me (2023) Another 9 tracks from the band very much in the same vein as their "Alive" album. In fact, other than a very slight shift in audio mix (a tiny bit more mid and a slight reduction in the bass), this really could be a part of the same album. Fast blasting grindcore in a Nasum style, somewhat robotic drums, mid ranged growling overtop of tremolo picked guitar riffs. Just as enjoyable as their last outing, and well worth grabbing if you dig the genre.
• Die For Me (2024) Man, talk about a busy band. They've released an album every single year for the last 5 years. Will they take a break? I'm all for it if they need it, but in the meantime I will just enjoy their absolute consistency. This 5th album is once again very similar to previous albums, the sound has a little less noise and reverb, so it's a bit more in your face, but otherwise it's another set of 9 high quality blasting death metal tunes in the exact same vein as their previous material. They have a good eye on catchy riffs and solid songwriting. If you've listened to any of their previous albums, this will be another perfect addition to the collection.
  

• The Somatic Defilement (2007) 
• This Is Exile (2008) Deathcore in the same general style as Job For A Cowboy, with a touch of Meshuggah (see the beginning of 'Possession') and perhaps even some Black Metal influences (check out the beginning of 'Daemon'). These guys aren't doing anything that others haven't done before, but they do it so well. The sound is fantastic with a super pounding and thick guitar tone (the band uses 3 guitarists). The music is really tight. The drumming is fast and accurate (love the doublebass at the end of 'To All That Are Dead'). The songs do tend to suffer a bit from the sameness factor, which they try and address with some spooky intros, and mild industrial influences to break things up. But the core of the band (if you forgive the pun) is the unending bludgeoning start-stop rhythms, prepare to be punched in the face. The vocals are mostly low and growly (with the occasional higher pitched raspy screams), imagine David Vincent from Morbid Angel but with a deeper and thicker voice. They certainly aren't gonna sway anybody who hates deathcore, but within the confines of their genre, these guys are top notch. Hopefully they can find ways on future releases to accentuate their unique aspects, and break away from the pack a bit.
• A New Era Of Corruption (2010) I was hoping this would be the album to push them over the top, but in general, it falls a little flat. Nothing really bad here, the sound is great, the songs are energetic, but overall there isn't really any sort of "Hell Yeah!" moment on the album. The riffs are a little bland, with nothing super memorable to be found. The best song is probably the opener, 'Devolver', which has a few decent hooks, but otherwise, this is all territory I have heard before either with this band, or other similar bands in the genre. If you're a huge fan of the band's last album, there's nothing wrong with "Corruption", you'll probably like it just fine. But I don't see myself replaying this a lot in the future, I'll probably stick to their second album.
• Recorrupted (2011, EP) Digital only EP. Contains one new song, one cover, two remixes and one acoustic version of a song from their last album. The new song is generally good, sort of mid paced. The cover is of Pantera's 'Strength Beyond Strength', and sounds pretty similar to the original, except death metalized of course. The two remixes are ok, at least they're darker angrier industrial and noisy remixes as opposed to poppy dance ones. And the acoustic song is nice and atmospheric, very, very different sounding than the original. I like how the acoustic guitars are just using chords you don't usually hear on acoustic guitars. The first two songs are worth it, and maybe the last song, but the 2 remixes aren't really all that interesting. I'd buy the songs separately on Amazon or iTunes to get exactly the ones you want.
• Whitechapel (2012) Similar to their last album in that while not spectacular, it's a solid effort. My favorite bit about this album are the interludes, to avoid the monotony of blasting and double bass the whole time, the band has really pushed the interludes on this release, from acoustic guitar, piano, clean guitar, all sort of things, they add a good level of atmosphere to the album, and certainly breaks the songs up. Riff wise, decent stuff, but again could use a few more standout riffs. From a performance perspective, certainly a lot of power and brutality here. Fans of the band will dig this album, but I'm still hoping that one of these days, the band will release an album that truly transcends the rest. They certainly have all the elements to make it happen.
  

• Gods on Voodoo Moon (1986, EP)
• Slaughter The Grey/ Pig Heaven (1986, EP)
• Soul-Crusher (1987)
• Psycho-Head Blowout (1987, EP)
• Make Them Die Slowly (1989)
• God of Thunder (1989, EP)
• La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume 1 (1992) Sort of a combination of old style metal and new style metal (Motorhead meets Metallica). Very riff oriented, a more simplistic drum style, with decent although not mind blowing production. Nothing spectacularly new here.
• Astro-Creep 2000 (1995) White Zombie at the top of their game, a mixture of grooves and sound bytes. The production is powerful, with lots of bottom end and good EQing. Pounding drums that don't wander too far from techno / dance beats. Riffs are mixed with samples and strange noises to form a rather thick industrial sound that still somehow retains the old-school groove that was present on their last album. The vocals are quite distorted, they obviously know how to use their effects processors. In general good quality songs that are well written and commercially catchy without being boring, this is the Zombie album to own.
• Supersexy Swingin' Sounds (1996) Dance remixes from Astro-Creep 2000. Some of the songs are just way too dance oriented, with very minimal metal samples. But others still have that harder edge that you need in any form of intense music. In general, an excellent album to have playing in the background at a party, or when you're in a more mellower mood.

• Headless (2013) After a few name swaps, the band has finally released their new album. As with my last review, Whorecore are definitely taking a page from the Aborted / Exhumed play book. Their riff writing skills may not be quite at the same stellar level, but the songs are still plenty catchy. Favorite moments for me are the last riff in 'Release Through Torture', really nice disharmony and heavy as shit, and the "dubadadub" riff in 'Departure'. The mix could also be a tad bit better, everything is clear, but it could be slightly more in your face. Overall, if you dig Aborted, you'll probably dig Whorecore as well.
  

• Demo 2011 (2001, Demo)
• They Did Unspeakable Things (2012)
  
• Isn't She Lovely (2012, EP)
  
• While You Were Sleeping (2014, EP) I guess this band is what you get when you combine a Whore with Cryptopsy. Stylewise, it's general deathcore with plenty of breakdowns, followed by super fast doublebass and gravity blasts. The songs are generally good, but nothing super memorable. Vocals are lowish gargled stuff. The 5 song EP is generally fun to listen to, but I don't feel the band is offering much that other similar bands aren't. Still worth a listen.
• Never Tear Us Apart (2015) Wow, what a step up. The band was saving its best songs for this album. While the songs on their EP were ok, this album is just chalk full of excellent riffs. Same general style, some deathcore breakdowns, but far more inventively done than 99% of the bands out there. Its like they sat down and said "lets do breakdowns, but lets see what we can do to spice them up so they're not so boring". The solution frequently is fast double bass under the breakdown, which of course tweaks my personal fetish for fast double bass with slow chugging guitar. I'd pretty much written this band off, but after this album, I am super interested again, check these guys out, highly recommended.
• White Men Can't Blump (2016, Single)
• Take My Breath Away (2018) Pretty similar to their last album. The sound quality has done a slight step up, a couple of the songs take a slight step down in terms of memorability, but otherwise this is a really solid album in terms of slam. Really enjoy the song 'Man's Best Friend', it has fantastic groove. The moshing must be intense at their shows. While I still prefer "Never Tear Us Apart" more, this is a worthy sequel and provides plenty of brutality.
  

• Wolfkahn (2010, EP) Short 5 songs EP (one song is an intro, and one is an outro, so basically 3 songs), the band hits a number of styles, from more thrashy stuff, to more straight forward death metal type material, to neo-classical, to a touch of Deathcore. The 3 middle songs remind me of some of Job For A Cowboy's material, I know some of you may not be a fan of that band, but some of their songs are actually pretty good, and Wolfkahn's music is as good if not better than Job's best material. The real surprise is how professional this EP sounds, the production quality is perfect, lots of big bass and crunchy highs, and the performance is very tight, like the group has been together for awhile. I appreciate the variety to the songs, but I think a little more focus for their debut album will help, not so much focus as to become boring, just enough to get a more even blend. Like for example, placing more of the neoclassical elements as part of other songs, instead of only using that style for the intro and outro. Overall, this EP shows a lot of promise, and I very much look forward to watching the band mature, and release their first full length.
  

• Floating Cadaver In The Monochrome (1999, Demo)
• Voxel Mitosis (2001, Promo)
• Planisphaerium (2003) While I could draw a strong connection between this band and Disgorge, there are a number of factors that set the bands apart. First, Wormed has the super low vocals, but they're even more low, gurgly and possibly processed. Songwise, Wormed's songs have a little more variety to them. Not in the way that say Suffocation has distinct and memorable songs, but compared to the ridiculously random Disgorge formula they do a much larger variety of drum grooves, slow plodding bits, squawks, 1 bar non sequiturs (like a bit that sounds like the intro to Cryptopsy's 'Defenstration'). Imagine Disgorge mixed with say Immolation, and a touch of Cryptopsy. Production is really nice, plenty of bass and highend crackle, and a lot of layered guitars to make this big, big sound. At just under 30min, it ends long before the formula becomes stale. I don't know, is it bad for a reviewer to say it has some indescribable quality that just persuades me to keep it in my daily metal rotation? Because it does, some combination of groove, brutal sound, the ridiculously low vocals keeps my attention, and so I gotta recommend this one.
• Quasineutrality (2010, Promo) 2 song Promo EP, I suppose to remind everyone that the band is still around after a 7 year wait. Same general style as before, blasting death metal with super gurgly vocals. Still good quality songs, enjoyable stuff. It's only 2 songs, but it's cheap, and it's a nice little reintroduction to the group. It does what it set out to do admirably, wetting my appetite for a new wormed full length CD which I hope we don't have to wait another 7 years for.
• Exodromos (2013) It's been a decade and finally a new Wormed album. The result? Well, something very Cryptopsy like. On more than 1 occasion I am listening to a riff and it sounds very much like it could have come from Cryptopsy's "And Then You'll Beg" or their new self titled album. They still however retain the super low gargled vocals from their debut. And then on top of that we have a few extra odd bits, squawks, strange noises, pick scrapes, little oddities that keep things interesting. The performance is fantastic, the production quality is excellent, and the riffs are strong and memorable. Yes, they may have borrowed a bit too much from Cryptopsy, but the album is really solid and enjoyable, and hey, I like Cryptopsy, so I highly recommend this one for fans of technical death metal.
• Krighsu (2016) Let the scifi influenced blastathon continue! Taking up where their last album left off, we have another super brutal blastfest with Cryptopsy overtones and scifi gibberish as song titles. The sound has a little more high end this time, which gives it an extra sharpness that's kind of nice. The songs are well written and the performance is fantastic. Lots of regular blasts, gravity blasts, complex time signature changes. And a few interludes to break up the pounding. Basically, if you liked their last album, they haven't changed their style much, so here's more awesomeness to enjoy. Highly recommended.
• Metaportal (2019, EP) After founding member J. Oliver left Wormed, the big question was could the band continue without their main songwriter (not to mention the death of their drummer G-Calero). The answer is they're certainly trying with this 4 song EP 3 years later, but it never quite lives up to their heights of "Krighsu". There are still fast parts, but there are markedly less of them. The sound is still clear, but slightly more muffled. The whole album feels a little more drony, with repeated guitar parts that create a more atmospheric feel than a vicious brutal death metal feel. Overall, not a bad release, but their last album was so biting that I don't know if they could have topped it even fully staffed. We'll see what the future holds, this EP takes a step down, but I am hopefully they can ratchet it back up again.
• Omegon (2024) First new music in 5 years from the band, and first full length after their founder departed. Their last EP was ok, and I was wondering what the departure of J. Oliver would mean to the band going forward. Omegon shows what the new lineup has to offer, and while not as good as their "Krighsu" album, it is certainly a step up from the "Metaportal" EP. This album has a little more fast stuff in it, and is a closer to match to the classic Wormed style. If I have any issue it's with the production quality. Again, better than their EP, but it still has a somewahat muffled feel to it, and if I switch around between songs on their "Krighsu" or "Exodromos" album and this one, the sound quality drop is obvious. The other album just have a much more "in your face" feel. But that aside, the songs feel very much like their other material, and there's a much better mix of speeds and the drony parts. If their older material was a 9, and the EP was a 5, I'll give this a solid 7. I bet a tweak to the mix would have brought it to 8. So glad the band is still around, and looking forward to their future work, but would love to see a few tweaks!
  

• Weapons Of Mass Protection (2005, EP) Short 5 song EP, in a pretty similar style of Disavowed. So lots of fast blasts, double bass, tremolo and fast picked riffs that change tempo and time signature every few bars. The music is demo quality in terms of mix, but its clear, and the band is tight, which makes it highly enjoyable. If you've never heard Disavowed before, check them out first, but if you're a fan and want some more, check these guys out too.