In just a few weeks, the freakdy-deaky, theatrical Miami underground metal duo Worm will release their new album Necropalace, and I fully expect it to rule. But we've already got an album's worth of new Worm music, since their three pre-release singles already include more than half an hour of music. We've already posted the 12-minute title track and the eight-minute "Blackheart." Today, we get to hear their absolutely absurd new song, a 15-minute Marty Friedman collab with the amazing title "Witchmoon: The Infernal Masquerade."
Let's take a minute for how cool it is that Marty Friedman is on a Worm song. That guy has had a fascinating life. Friedman, a DC native, joined Megadeth in 1990 and played with them for a decade. Then he moved to Japan, where he's on TV all the time and he's famous as hell. In 2014, he played New Japan Pro Wrestling ace Hiroshi Tanahashi to the ring before his main-event match at the Tokyo Dome. It was fucking awesome. Friedman is a hero to shredders everywhere, and here he is playing blazing leads all over this fucking 15-minute Worm song.
"Witchmoon: The Infernal Masquerade" is the closing track on Necropalace, and it cycles through over-the-top permutations of black metal, doom, and evil goth shit, with Friedman just doing whammy-bar wheelies throughout. It's a wild piece of music. Listen below.
Necropalace is out 2/13 on Century Media.
