Worm Ouroboros
What Graceless Dawn
(Profound Lore)
Worm Ouroboros offers a pallet of sanguine fervor with an eerie element. What Graceless Dawn is ethereal and slow. There is no wild mixture of styles or tempo in this album. This is dark ambiance at its finest. The Bay Area based band have drawn on a vast background to plunge into obsidian depths. While What Graceless Dawn certainly does not provide much in way of the extreme metal aesthetic, there is certainly a heaviness on the album that one would associate with doom metal. Jessica Way’s guitar playing grabs the listener with some heavy riffs and single notes nicely laden with a gazey fuzz.
While Worm Ouroboros style certainly isn’t my usual thing (my favorite albums of the year are the new Vektor and Metallica albums, mind you), I certainly commend them for their ability to draw this thrasher into their chamber of dark and depressive rock. Or how about dark and depressive chamber rock? Whatever you want to call Worm Ouroboros, this is certainly a nice touch when you’re craving something soft and mellow, but nothing poppy. Production wise, the album is arranged quite nicely. No instrument was left behind on What Graceless Dawn, and indeed the tightness of the band comes together quite gracefully.
