WORMROT HAVE AN EARACHE
I only recently discovered the blog Grind and Punishment after its proprietor, Andrew Childers, made a killer modern grind mix for Invisible Oranges. But it’s a great site, and it’s clear that Childers knows wwwaaayyy more about grind than I do, so I’ve been devouring its old posts ferociously.
Childers named Abuse, the debut album from Singapore’s Wormrot, as the best grind album of 2009, so, of course, I checked it out. Good job, Andrew: Abuse is killer. It was apparently only officially released in Singapore (which is not to say you can’t get it elsewhere if you’re mildly clever), but a press release now tells me that the band has signed to Earache, who will give the album a CD and LP release with extra tracks sometime this spring.
I’m sure that there are some tr00 grind fans who will find the idea of Wormrot signing to a known metal label – and one that houses Oceano, no less – offensive. But I have a hard time imagining three dudes from Singapore who started a band called “Wormrot” from ever selling out. Whatever gets this band’s music into the greatest number of ears possible strikes me as good news.
-AR
