Portland, Maine-based Death Metal act released a compilation cd, with two previous demos. Worm Altar is one of those bands that settle between hideous Death Metal filth and a grating doom ooze, and the riffs are more squal-id and rank and delivered with a wretched, swampy yet somehow oth-erworldly groove as evidenced on the superb drudgery. Bleak, slow and macabre, Worm Altar’s is the perfect landscape into sick & pu-trid to project your nightmares on to. FFO: Anatomia, Disma & Spectral Voice