We had to crop that header image, by the way. When we got sent Necropalace, the new album by Florida black metal duo Worm, one of the only pictures we got with it depicted the band’s frontman/founder Phantom Slaughter and guitarist Wroth Septentrion holding a dagger over a naked and very blood-soaked woman laying down on an altar. The story of how they took the photo is almost as shocking as the image itself.
“It was a day off on tour: we happened to be in Detroit, and there was some BDSM dungeon that we were going to stay at for the night,” says Phantom, talking as if it’s the most normal thing in the world. “Our tour manager’s always finding really unique places for us to stay, and he had some friends who owned a warehouse and did that kind of stuff. We spent the night and got a killer, iconic photo shoot out of it, and our tour manager ended up sleeping in a coffin.”
