Formed just in 2024, yet by 2025 Inherits the Void’s Antoine Scholtès presents the first full-length album from Wurmian, through which he showcases his affection for Melodic Death/Doom. In terms of Melodic Death Metal, one hears the Swedish scene circa 1999-2001, while the Doom element on ‘Immemorial Shrine’ zeroes in on melancholy in specific passages, partly due to the deployment of keys and 1996-1999 Katatonia-esque melodies.
It repeatedly appears as though a track is genuinely partitioned into those two separate segments, which leads me to surmise that the listener may occasionally find it challenging to fully surrender to the perceived music. A prime example of this, in my estimation, is the closing track, ‘The Everflowing Stream’.
Throughout ‘Immemorial Shrine’, one clearly discerns Scholtès’ musical vision within Wurmian, however, due to the genres not fusing into a unified whole, the execution has not yet been fully successful, to my mind. Hopefully this is something he will iron out on the successor.
