In late 2022, not long after the release of Worm’s Bluenothing EP, project mastermind Phantom Slaughter thought he was being phished. Someone claiming to be Marty Friedman, the former Megadeth and Cacophony guitarist and trailblazing solo artist, had apparently just heard the record, and they slid into Worm’s Instagram DMs with an all-caps reaction: “I LOVE BLUENOTHING!”