HMLTD share title track from their forthcoming second album The Worm

Recorded with a 16-piece orchestra in Athens, and a gospel choir in London, frontman Henry Spychalski notes that "The Worm" is the most ambitious song that HMLTD have made to date.

"It was inspired by Stravinsky’s ‘Rite of Spring’. For the cacophonous outro which closes the song, we asked the orchestra to play the part with the ‘sensazione de un verme’ (the sensation of a worm). The lyrics are the clearest admission that the album is a symbol of my depression and battle with it," he says.

It is the final single to be taken from The Worm, which is the follow-up to their 2020 debut West of Eden.

“The video for "The Worm" shows the final stand of the resistance,” notes Spychalski, who was the director. “We shot the video in an abandoned, desecrated church in London’s East End to emphasise the spiritual nature of the song and its themes of struggle and salvation. In the video, I wanted to show man's inner demons physically manifested as real, living, breathing entities - the Worm within man.

It was inspired by the films of the polish auteur Andrzej Żuławski, and in particular his unfinished masterpiece On The Silver Globe. The chorus of extras which make up the congregation are all fans of ours who answered a general callout on Instagram, without whom the video would not have been possible - so our eternal gratitude to them here cannot be overstated”