WVRM

Noise-damaged grinders who aren’t afraid of getting down in the dirt SOUTH CAROLINA GRINDCORE

act WVRM recently crawled out of the ground with their first release for Prosthetic, proving less a garden-variety earthworm than one of Kevin Bacon’s flesh-eating nightmares in Tremors.

“We wrote exactly what we wanted with zero restraint”, says vocalist Ian Nix of Colony Collapse. “We used everything available to us. We had some noise machines around, so we used them. We also had a two-string cello and some ancient instruments my roommate brought back from Asia.”

If the band refuse to nail themselves to one particular sonic mast, one thing that does hold true throughout is a deeply rooted sense of class consciousness.

“It affects every part of life,” says Ian. “Even if the lyrics don’t outwardly say something about class, it’s still there at the core. We treat this outlet as if it’s something sacred. Every note, every little sound is for a reason. It has to mean something or what’s the point? So many bands could be saying more, and I think a lot of it is privilege. They can afford to be in a band without going broke or being unable to pay bills. That’s why you have so many bands that don’t have shit to say.”

This also seems to link through when Ian is asked about the affinity for bugs and bees that squirms through their output. “What is it about that imagery?” he reflects. “We use a lot of imagery and references to dirt-dwelling creatures. Maybe we’re the worms and the bugs. The bottom rung of society. Maybe that’s us.”

SOUNDS LIKE: Skull-collapsing grindcore that’s

as ferocious ideologically as

it is sonically

FOR FANS OF: Full Of Hell, Transient, Cloud Rat

LISTEN TO: Furious Movement/ The Burning Tower

COLONY COLLAPSE IS OUT NOW VIA PROSTHETIC