WORM „Integral Virus”

Music: Techno Metal
Website: http://wormed.info
Country: U.K.
Cool songs: Cybersex (Hard Fuck Mix)

In 1996 Arnfield and Walker formed WORM as an experiment. They wanted to create techno-soundscape music. ‘Integral Virus’ is their first work, which (as rumours say) pulverized the British underground independent music scene.

To be honest, I will describe the band’s work in a few words: one-riff electronic sound with some slight variations. And that is everything. Sometimes, those instrumental compositions sound as if they were taken from some films. But this is only a short-term impression, because the majority of the sounds is based on some simple samples generated by very simple minds and machines. Some sound quite cool, but the main army sounds like it was created by a thirty year old software tracker. I am sorry to say it, but today’s mobile phones have got more advanced music composers. When it comes to the rock/metal parts, they are quite weak and poor: mainly one riff, repeated all the time, surrounded by electronic sounds. I think that come clubbing enthusiasts will find this album quite interesting. Metal maniacs will stay out of it. And that is, as I stated before, because the guitar, which is the one and only authentic sound here, appears very rarely. And when it is heard, it really bores after a while and the ears wish they had never heard it.

The album is very weak, but I have no doubt, that some people will find it very attractive, that those two guys are fantastic, they do everything by themselves, they are like an orchestra. As a counter argument I have an old saying: ‘if something is good for everything, it is worth as much as a piece of crap.’.

note: 1.5/10

Tracklist

1. Virus
2. Cybersex (Hard Fuck Mix)
3. Ends of the Earth
4. Oxygen Free
5. Sanitized
6. Life Part 2
7. Cybersex (Orgasmotron Mix)
8. Boredom Kills

Total playing time 46:56

Line-up

C. J. Arnfield
T. Titus Walker