Book of Wyrms – Remythologizer
Release Date: August 23, 2019
Richmond, Virginia’s Book of Wyrms is set to release their sophomore release, Remythologizer which will be out this summer via Twin Earth Records. Normally when I hear a band who compares them to Hawkwind and Uriah Heep, I roll my eyes all the while knowing that I’m either going to be bored to tears or pleasantly surprised. In the case of Book of Wyrms, it was literally audio Ambien.
I actually had to drink two cups of coffee to make it through this lifeless platter of music. The album’s first two songs (“Autumnal Snow” and “Blacklight Warpries” respectively) were so dull and similar that by the middle of “Blacklight Warpriest” I literally thought this was one long fucking song. “Undead Pegasus” is this weird upbeat song that sounds like they just learned how to play their instruments.
The lead-off single for Remythologizer, “Spirit Drifter” basically sounds as if they took Electric Citizen and Ruby the Hatchet and instead of sugar they added Sweet N’ Low. It sounds so homogenized and unoriginal. Vocalist Sarah Moore-Lindsey’s vocals have all of the life and passion of a doorknob singing over uninspired and predictable doomy guitar playing and generic rhythms.
Unfortunately, Book of Wyrms is just another band that will end up in the “doom bin” of bands that all sound the same. There is absolutely nothing original about this band. Lifeless vocals, lifeless music, and lifeless performances of songs that are less than mediocre. I’m sure that there is an audience for this and I’m sure they will love it but I am not a part of that audience in the least.
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