WURM FLESH To Release New EP July 26 2024

There is something wrong…something terribly, terribly wrong. I can feel it as it claws against the walls of soft flesh that enclose it. I sense it in the sudden, frantic movements as it thrashes in mounting fury. I see it when my skin stretches as the malformed limbs press against its prison, my body. The fear that thunders through my veins is feeding it. No matter what they tell me, no matter how many lying images they hold before my disbelieving gaze, I know this thing is no longer my baby, my child…it is an enemy within, consuming me, drinking my spirit and my sanity, gathering the strength to tear me wide open…

After several years of silence, Wurm Flesh have violently resurfaced from the contaminated soils of Sacramento with a new line-up and an all-new three track EP – Teratogenic Malformation. The new line-up sees original members vocalist/guitarist Rob Calhoun and drummer Mitch Bauder, joined by Bo Rogers on bass and Joe Salazar on guitar and backing vocals. Together this quartet of formidable musicians has brought an inevitable and punishing evolution to the band. Building upon the warped foundations of decimating debut album, Excoriating Evisceration, Wurm Flesh are now pushing even further into the outer limits of madness and brutality.

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Teratogenic Malformation begins with the formidable drums and wild riffs of its title track, the guitars skittering across the surface of sanity and plunging envenomed fangs through muscle and bone, vein and tendon. It’s a dizzying assault of bewildering ferocity, with Calhoun’s vocals plumbing utterly inhuman depths. ‘Defenestration’ follows with barely a pause for a ragged, panicked breath, exploding in a cascade of gore, a whirlwind of intensity. Technical dexterity is perfectly welded to absolute savagery and unfathomable heaviness as the coils of this beast unwind. Brilliant drumming and addictive riffs deliver an astonishing payload, battering the pleasure centres of the brain like machinegun fire. And the killer riffs just keep coming – every one a glorious, malevolent monster – as Teratogenic Malformation tears towards its bloody conclusion with ‘Viral Consumption’. If this triptych of screaming terror is an indication of what Wurm Flesh plan to unleash with their second full length album in 2025, then hell, horror and supreme death metal art await!

Recorded, mixed and mastered at Mayhemness Studios in Sacramento (Rings Of Saturn, Obliviated, Wastewalker etc), Teratogenic Malformation sounds fearsomely destructive – the sheer sonic power captured within the three tracks is astounding. With the package being completed by the disturbing artwork of Sean Walusko (Dire Peril, Zombie Death Stench etc) this EP is essential listening for not only Wurm Flesh fans, but all devotees of the most brutal forms of death metal. Wurm Flesh are back and Teratogenic Malformation is coming your way on July 26th via Comatose Music – don’t say you ain’t been warned!