It’s an underdog tale that we’ll never tire of: Local band works their asses off for years with little mainstream attention before finally making it in the big leagues and leaving a mark on one of the world’s biggest music festivals.
No, we’re not talking about The Sam Willows. We’re talking about the biggest homegrown band you may have never heard of: Wormrot. (AKA one of the most prominent names in the world when it comes to the dissonant, blistering genre of grindcore.)
The extreme metal trio are Singapore’s first band to perform at Glastonbury Festival in Britain, where they were part of a line-up that included the likes of Radiohead, Ed Sheeran, Foo Fighters, and many more. Not only were Wormrot the first Singaporean band in Glastonbury, they were among the first extreme metal bands to ever play there. A very fine, exhilarating break from all the vanilla, basic names that usually appear in the rock and pop festival.
The reception was pretty amazing as well, according to the lads who played on the Earache Records stage over the weekend. Or rather, the Earache Express — a train carriage that’s been converted into a performance space. Extreme!
“It was awesome,” said Wormrot drummer Vijesh Ashok Ghariwala to The Straits Times. “The audience was going nuts when we performed.”
There isn’t much footage floating around from Wormrot’s three sets in Glastonbury, but lo and behold — here’s a video from BBC. Watch what went down when three of our very own musicians got on the heavy metal train and ripped everyone’s faces off (no, not literally).
Bonus extra footage from Wormrot themselves:
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