As Wargasm, Sam Matlock and Milkie Way have quickly become one of the most talked-about young bands in metal today.
At a party somewhere in London, the night was winding down, but Milkie Way and Sam Matlock weren’t ready to call it quits. In a moment of alcohol-infused inspiration, they turned to Fred Durst for a musical pick-me-up.
“Everyone was trying to play some holier-than-thou SoundCloud rap that no one liked,” recalls Sam, Wargasm’s vibrantly colored-haired guitarist and vocalist. “We were like, put fucking Limp Bizkit on.”
As soon as they did, the room erupted. “It taught us something about how human nature reacts to loud guitars,” he says. This was a pivotal moment for the pair, who met at a gig in 2018. At the time, Sam, the son of original Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock, was playing with his punk band, Dead!, who split later that year. Milkie, Wargasm’s pixie-haired Irish bassist, was in the crowd with a camera for her Girl In The Pit photography project. Shortly after their Bizkit-inspired epiphany, they began writing their own music, aiming to recreate the same 3 a.m. buzz they felt was missing in the alternative scene.
Adopting the name Wargasm, they released their raw and punky first single, “Post Modern Rhapsody,” in 2019. Since then, their sound has evolved into a frenetic, kaleidoscopic blend of digital hardcore and electronica, infused with the hooks, heaviness, and attitude of nu metal.
