WORM SHEPHERD
Ritual Hymns UNIQUE LEADER
Massachusetts’ symphonic metallers unleash a multi-faceted battery
Worm Shepherd find the missing link between slam and symphonic metal
IT WAS OBVIOUS from last year’s In The Wake Ov Sòl debut that Worm Shepherd weren’t in the business of fucking about. Wonderfully bleak, bold and relentlessly brutal to its filth-encrusted core, these Massachusettsbased whippersnappers – their drummer being just 17 years old at the time of its release – blurred the lines between blackened death metal and something more avowedly twisted. And less than 12 months later, the quintet’s follow-up arrives, proving to be eviscerating yet elevated in its sonic arsenal and aimed directly at the solar plexus.