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Lord Worm: You get a lot of the old, frenetic flavor on newer material. The changes that have marked it were partly on purpose, realizing as I do that Mike DiSalvo has a huge fanbase as well. It is incumbent upon me not to ignore them or to denigrate their appreciation, and so I basically had to warp my delivery into being partly DiSalvo-esque, and partly ‘old’ Worm, and get the two together into a cohesive whole if at all possible. Hence, ‘Once Was Not’. This newer material, though it will fall in that vein, will typically have the darker, more psychotic flavor that made ‘None So Vile’ so popular.

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Lord Worm: We’ve got a pile of things to unleash on the world this time next year.

The Gauntlet: New material?

Lord Worm: Acres.

The Gauntlet: Does that mean more than one album?

Lord Worm: How about a double? And a double DVD, with scads of extras. Including the never-seen video of, I believe it was ‘Serial Messiah’, filmed back in ’92, so it includes Jon Levasseur and Steve Thibault. Filmed in I think Super-8. Never been transferred.

The Gauntlet: Do you have name for that upcoming release?

Lord Worm: DVD? No, but it’ll be double. And, the album, if everything goes the way we think…remember when Guns ‘N’ Roses released parts one and two of sort of the same album, just different shades of color for the cover? Same idea: ‘The Book of Suffering: Books One and Two’

The Gauntlet: Good title.

Lord Worm: Can do a lot with it. So it's its own concept album, if you will, but it doesn’t have to be linear. Everything fits in together. Every song so far, lyrically, because I write separately, every song has a double meaning. Both meanings have to do with suffering. There’s the meaning that you’ll get from what you read, and it'll be nebulous, and then there'll be the understated one that people might not get. And those are a lot worse. Songs and then the disguised songs.

The Gauntlet: That's good to hear. I know some people are really interested in the lyrical concepts you've been exploring, even from back in the days of ‘None So Vile’ and its blasphemy and then more recent, esoteric ‘Once Was Not’.