Previously presented to you all with its debut EP, Nahab (which is also one side of a split with Marigold King) as well as through the alternate project Pari’sya, we now welcome back the Germany-based solo outfit Swampworm with a brand new album, Architeuthis, that is out today.

For those unfamiliar with Swampworm, its core is dissonance and blackened grindcore, a sonic amalgam of elements that could be assumed to form a ball of incomprehensible and fast noise. Not this one.

Architeuthis comes with a cured production that far from being clean, is clear enough to allow us to appreciate the many effects provided by the guitars – such as synth-like long electric and eerie background ambience – or the overlapping voices that sound like a frantic dialogue with your evil side, while maintaining an industrial and ruinous feel. Very much on point.

It is a fast album that doesn’t abuse the overspeeding moments either, and it provides breathing spaces, spooky keyboards, ambience, or chaos-invoking slow drumming that always ends with some breathtaking pickup. No song in this album sticks to the same velocity or structure. You may be headbanging to thick death metal riffing and the next second you’re struggling not to get sucked into the dissonant spiral of blackened grindcore, wandering lost in its atmospheres, or finding yourself crab dancing to grind.

Architeuthis is a fun and highly enjoyable void-dark terror ritual divided into six songs. Lyrically, as far as we’ve read, tell a story of the Kraken, inspired by Lovecraftian ideas and the hypothesis of an archaeologist about how the creature re-arraigned the bones of its prey.

Do you need any more incentives? We do not, and we want more!

SWAMPWORM
BC: https://swampworm.bandcamp.com/