The Rotted - Get Dead Or Die Trying [Promo] (2008)

 

Get Dead or Die Trying is the debut studio album by British death metal band The Rotted (formerly known as Gorerotted). 28 Days Later is a cover of the soundtrack song In the House - In a Heartbeat from the film of the same name, composed by John Murphy.

In early 2008 The Rotted rose from the ashes of two already dead UK bands. Vocalist Ben McCrow and guitarist Tim Carley, the two main men behind Death/Grind legends Gorerotted were joined by bass player Reverend Trudgill and drummer Nate Gould, both previously of blackened murder metal loonies Screamin’ Dæmon. The debut album Get Dead Or Die Trying (Metal Blade Records) hit stores in July of the same year. Produced by Russ Russell (Evile, Napalm Death, Dimmu Borgir) and engineered by James Dunkley (Blaze Bailey, Crowbar) Get Dead… has received fantastic reviews across the metal press.

Two years of intense UK and European touring followed the album release with festival highlights including Wacken Open Air 2008 (DE), Summer Breeze 2008 (DE), Dynamo 2008 (NL), Elsrock 2008 (NL), Vlamrock 2008 (BE), Bloodstock 2009 (UK), Hammerfest 2009 (UK), Headbangers festival 2009 (NL) and Hellfire festival 2009 (UK).

In 2009 a video was shot for album track Nothin' But A Nosebleed and became a regular on Scuzz TV and others.

July 2010 saw The Rotted back in the studio with James Dunkley and the band releasing Anarchogram, a self-funded, self-released EP on their own label Anarchogram Industries. Anarchogram features 2 new songs and 4 bonus cover versions. Each member of The Rotted chose a track to cover that personally inspired them to play Extreme Metal.

More intense touring followed the release of Anarchogram, including a hugely successful 27 date European tour with old school Swedish Death Metallers Grave and American Grinders Misery Index. The tour kicked off during November 2010 and took The Rotted to every corner of mainland Europe. The Rotted also took part in a joint headline UK tour with Relapse artists Man Must Die in July 2010 and one off UK shows with Napalm Death, Bolt Thrower and Onslaught during spring and summer 2010. December 2010 saw The Rotted hit the UK again for a run of headline shows as well as jetting out to Israel to headline shows in Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa.

Summer 2011 once again saw The Rotted perform at various festivals in Europe, including the band’s second appearance at Bloodstock Open Air (UK), Deathfeast Open Air (DE) and Dong Open Air (DE). However, disaster struck 2 days before the band’s appearance at Czech festival Obscene Extreme when guitarist Tim Carley severed the end of the little finger on his left hand. After a trip to hospital, some surgery, and Tim having to relearn the songs so that they could be played with one less finger the scheduled performance went ahead as planned.

The Rotted’s second full-length album Ad Nauseam was released on Candlelight Records on 31st October (and later on cassette via Dead Beat Media for Asia) to universal praise and featured artwork created by tattooist and band bassist Reverend Trudgill. Production duties were once again handled by Russ Russell at Parlour Studios and songs covered a variety of themes such as the band members’ Anti-theist and autonomous outlook, the end of days, injustices and the championing of outsiders. A 7-inch vinyl single Apathy In The UK was then put out by Dutch label Hammerheart Records to support the release. The end of the year saw the band hook up with Grindcore Supergroup Lock Up for a run of UK shows as well as appearances at the UK’s Candlefest shows and at The Netherlands’ Eindhoven Metal Meeting.

2012 saw the band perform at Summer Breeze festival (DE), the band's own Offenders Of The Faith fest (UK), Headbanging Festival (NL), Kashfest (NL) and tours of Scotland and Ireland, taking in cities few other bands visit.

In 2013, The Rotted recorded a new single, Rotted Fucking Earth, originally as a download only track with an accompanying video (directed by vocalist Ben's brother), but later to be released as a limited edition split 7-inch vinyl with Dutch Grindcore outfit Collision. Performances included Metaldays Open Air (SL), Eindhoven Metal Meeting (NL) and club shows with bands such as Extreme Noise Terror and Carpathian Forest.

In 2014, the band announced that their performance at the Camden Underworld on 20 September would be their last and that the former members would be concentrating on education, tattooing and other musical projects; Vocalist Ben has since joined Extreme Noise Terror, guitarist Tim currently plays in old time acoustic Gypsy/Ska/Punk band Jo Carley And The Old Dry Skulls, and after returning to his homeland, drummer Nate has joined Israeli Death Metal veterans Lehavoth.

 

-Tracklist:

1.     Nothin' But a Nosebleed     02:54      
2.     The Howling     02:54      
3.     A Return to Insolence     03:41    
4.     Kissing You with My Fists     02:56    
5.     Angel of Meth     03:17      
6.     A Brief Moment of Regret     02:38    
7.     The Body Tree     03:42      
8.     Get Dead or Die Trying     02:37
9.     It's Like There's a Party in My Mouth (and Everyone's Being Sick)     03:05
10.     Fear and Loathing in Old London Town     03:56    
11.     28 Days Later (John Murphy cover)     06:41

 

-Line up:

• Ben McCrow: vocals
• Tim Carley: guitars
• Gian Pyres: guitars
• Phil Wilson: bass
• Nate Gould: drums.

 

 

 

 

Label: Metal Blade Records.

 

Produced by Russ Russell.

Engineered by James Dunkley.

 Artwork by Mick Kenney.

"28 Days Later" is part of the soundtrack to the 2002 horror film of the same name. The piece's actual name is "In the House - In a Heartbeat".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The Rotted July 2008 to November 2009

 

 

 

 

Atrabilis - Dos (2016)

''Throughout time, several individuals shape a mutable collective based in Spain, developing Atrabilis’ psychotic drama, Negativa’s mournful violence and Bile Noire’s label production''.

 Lyrical themes: Anxiety, Oppression, Isolation, Abstract, Dadaism.

-Tracklist:

1.   Decimosexta Parte     03:14    

2.   Parte Decimoséptima     04:12    

3.   Decimoctava Parte     05:06    

4.   Parte Decimonovena     05:12    

5.   Vigésima Parte      04:10    

6.   Parte Vigesimoprimera     02:56    

7.   Vigesimosegunda Parte     05:22    

8.   Parte Vigesimotercera     02:39    

9.   Vigesimocuarta Parte     08:52

-Line up:

• D.R.: all instruments, vocals.

 

Label: Nigra Mors.

Limited to 100 copies.

 Recorded live in Vigo, Pontevedra on 13/02/2016.

 

 

 

Autopsy - The Tomb Within [EP] (2010)

 

Autopsy emerged in 1987 and had an almost immediate impact on the global underground Metal scene. 

The band's debut album Severed Survival was released in 1989 on Peaceville Records and the band went on to become legends in the death metal scene, recording four studio albums in total, before splitting up in the mid 1990s. 

After a 15 year period which saw Chris and Danny heavily involved with their band Abscess, it was time to answer the wishes of fans worldwide and embark upon a fresh spree of Autopsy brutality, so on 19th July 2010 the band entered Fantasy Studios with Adam Munoz to begin new work, with original trio of Chris Reifert, Danny Coralles and Eric Cutler joined by Joe Trevisano on bass. 

The Tomb Within consists of 5 tunes of ultimate gore and depravity, and features cover art by renowned fantasy/horror artist Matt Cavotta.

The Tomb Within  

You're dying inside
Every heartbeat closer to the last
Immortality a fallacy
A perverted pipe dream of the past.

The tomb, it needs it's hunger
An unforgiving force
Your blown mind reels in torture
True doom locked on its course.

Your blood it flows in torment
A testament to weakness
Your deathday clock is ticking
you'll surrender to your creatures.

Your graveyard eyes unseeing
your mind drowns in the crypt
construction of the perfect beast
Your senses have been stripped
Look over your shoulder
Damnation's waiting there
Your run slows to a crawl
The casket calls to your despair.

Abyssmal hopelessness - Down on bloody knees
There's madness in your soul - A swarming of disease.

Cemetery visions
Eyes peeled red and open
Curled up in a coffin
Mind and soul are broken.

Merging with the void while encloaked by total doom
Feel the reaper's breath as you slip inside the tomb
Wake up dead and mourning with a knife tight in your fist
thank the blood red skies
For with death you have been kissed...

 

• Tracklist:

Side A
1. The Tomb Within     03:44      
2. My Corpse Shall Rise     04:17
3. Seven Skulls     03:05
    
Side B
4. Human Genocide     03:04
5. Mutant Village     05:50

 

• Line up:

- Joe Allen: bass
- Eric Cutler: guitars
- Chris Reifert: vocals, drums
- Danny Coralles: guitars.

 

 

 

 

Label: Peaceville Records.
Limited edition to 1000 copies.

Comes with printed inner sleeve with lyrics and poster.
The EP release was announced as 13th of September but was delayed until the 21st.

 

 

  

 

𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗼𝗮𝘁𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁 - War Bringer, War Cult [Compilation] (2015)

 

Wargoatcult started in August 2007.
The first and unique War black metal Band from Castilla y León-Spain.
 Lyrical themes: Warfare, Satanism, Destruction.   

-Tracklist:

01. Nuevos dioses     03:35
02. The Adven of Atomic Antichrist     04:27
03. Bringer of Bestial Revelations     04:58
04. Black Conjuration, Satanic Victory     03:47
05. Necroatomik Harmonies     04:43
06. Macabre Pollution     03:18
07. As Thunderous Tides...     04:27
08. War Bringer, War Cult     02:45
09. Messiah (Hellhammer cover)     04:15
10. Atomic Crusades     05:25
11. Re-procreation of Evil     04:05
12. Demoniza- The Will of the Elite   02:14
13. Crush the Idols     02:32
14. Subterranean Dejection     02:20
15. Condemned to Exile     04:16
16. Venomous Plagues     05:53
17. Mourning Soul (Absurd cover)   02:07

 

-Line up:

• Necrotomb: all instruments, vocals.  

 

 

Label: Nigra Mors.

Limited to 500 copies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2011.12.16  Pub TNT, Santiago de Compostela (Esp)

 

 

 

 

Inquisition - Nefarious Dismal Orations (2007) [LP Limited Edition] (2008)

 

Inquisition was formed in 1988 in Cali, Colombia, by Dagon as a thrash metal act named Guillotine. The band changed their name to Inquisition in 1989. The name, frontman Dagon later explained, was chosen because it represented humanity's "need to establish dominance, control and order based on a particular period of our world's history." Dagon viewed this historical event as emblematic of "man's [general] need to impose his rule over others." In 1996, Dagon relocated to the United States and recruited Incubus on drums and Debandt on bass. Debandt departed the band shortly after the release of Inquisition's full-length debut, Into the Infernal Regions of the Ancient Cult. The band chose to remain a two-piece and all subsequent releases were recorded solely by Dagon and Incubus.

Dagon has suggested that the band's formation in Colombia and subsequent development in the United States affected Inquisition's sound. Observing that "Many second and third world countries have an environment in them that suits Black Metal and Death Metal perfectly," Dagon explained that "life in some of them mean nothing. The high social tension and rebellion in those areas of the world only intensify this music and make 'evil' much more of a reality." Recalling "seeing people get shot and stabbed [by] the Cali and Medellin cartel," Dagon portrayed the environment surrounding the band's formative years as "true darkness in flesh and blood." He described Inquisition as combining "the South American attitude" with "the musicianship and skills of the European scene." Dagon later downplayed geographic and cultural influences in favour of emphasizing the band's metaphysical inspiration: "I don't think of anything particular in our music as being rooted in a particular area culturally. Sure, there can be external influences based on geographical location, or your heritage can play a role, but in this band's case it just doesn't happen. We keep things detached from that and aim for a sound that is inspired from a much more distant and mystical element."

 

•Tracklist:

Side A:

 1. Ancient Monumental War Hymn     05:43   
2. Nocturnal Gatherings and Wicked Rites     05:37   
3. Strike of the Morning Star     05:03     
4. Through the Infinite Sphere Our Majesty Shall Rise     05:36 

Side B:
5. Infernal Evocation of Torment     02:56     
6. Where Darkness Is Lord and Death the Beginning     07:20
7. Nefarious Dismal Orations     04:11
8. Enter the Cult     03:38       instrumental
9. Before the Symbol of Satan We Bow and Praise     05:57

 •Line up:

  ⛧Incubus: drums, songwriting (drums), arrangements (drums)
⛧Dagon: guitars, vocals, lyrics, songwriting.

 

 

 

Label: No Colours Records.

Limited to 700 copies, picture disc in gatefold cover.
"Recorded on November 17, 18, 19, 20 of 2006 after sun fall as we welcomed the arrival of night" 

 

Recorded at Noise Farm Studio.
Mastered at Seattle Disc Mastering by Mark Guenther.

Mixed by Tim Barlett.

 

Cover, design, layout by Antichrist Kramer.
Contains an insert and an A3 poster. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2011.07.30  Hard Club, Porto (Por)

 

VA: Mutilated - 16 Monster Death Metal Tracks (1997)

 

 Upon switching their name from Xecutioner to Obituary, the career of one of the most successful and influential Death Metal bands began. Hailing from Florida and featuring John Tardy (vocals), brother Donald Tardy (drums), Trevor Peres (guitar), Allen West (guitar), and Daniel Tucker (bass), the band signed to Roadracer Records, a now defunct division of Roadrunner, for the recording of their debut album, the immense and immeasurably heavy “Slowly We Rot” (1989). The album was engineered by the legendary Scott Burns at Morrisound Studio, which would come to be the most sought after facility for production of albums during 1990’s rise of the Death Metal genre. Unlike much death metal preceding it, the album had a sludgy feel and integrated devastatingly slow passages along with obliterating overtures that reached far beyond any point of mayhem that metal had yet to reach; the result was a carnal pleasure for doom, death and thrash fans alike coupling the adrenaline of a speedball with the slow, degrading measures of a sewer at dusk. Like them or not, Obituary was unlike anything anyone had heard before.
“Slowly We Rot” was chaotic, bass heavy mix of manic guitar solos and crashing drums, but it was undeniably characterized by vocalist John Tardy’s disarmingly horrific, gargling style, that created guttural chasms of dread which though often strived for, to date have been paralleled by none. The ability to augment tempo so drastically became the band’s trademark along with Tardy’s unique vocal style, which distinguished them clearly from the rest of the emerging Florida Death Metal bands; nowhere is this more apparent than on the prophetic title track of their debut. The fact that Obituary refrained from printing lyric sheets with their albums led people to believe that they didn't actually write any lyrics. Some may question the verbosity or absence of documented lyrics, however, any true fan has each grunt, growl and howling grimace committed to memory like an utterance from God in painstaking form, what does not exist can not be remembered, and an Obituary show is testimony to the re-creation of what your ears couldn't believe in the first place. Once again bringing augmentation to irony, Live and Dead worked quite well for the quintet, dividing your conscience yet leaving much to the imagination; not since birth have your senses been so graphically assaulted yet pleased at the same time. While such differing sensations once seemed incongruous, Obituary have proven the ability to merge unlikely dichotomies, from their slow-as-hell-yet-fast-as-fuck style to the non-evil, homegrown approach to what would largely become the satanized, bastardized, make-up wearing movement known as Death Metal.

Back in the ‘90s, Suffocation maniacs waited, at most, two years between old and new fixes of New York-styled brutality. Landmark full-length Effigy of the Forgotten was only two years removed from debut EP, Human Waste. Likewise, Breeding the Spawn slayed posers and pretenders a year and a half after Effigy of the Forgotten blueprinted Suffocation into the history books. And Pierced from Within, the wickedest death metal put to tape in the mid ‘90s, slammed fist first into mediocrity and mundanity two years after Breeding the Spawn. Clearly, there were times when Suffocation’s march towards total annihilation was fast and furious.


Malevolent Creation started their career in 1987 in Buffalo, NY, where they recorded and distributed their first demo. Moving to a more fertile music scene in Florida they produced their second demo with a pressing of 1,000 copies. Finally, a third demo the following year recorded by Scott Burns at Morris Sound which landed Malevolent Creation a record deal with Roadrunner and the first full-length album titled The Ten Commandments, considered by many to be one of the strongest Death Metal debut albums.
The recording process for the following albums, such as Retribution, and Stillborn, were riddled with line-up changes, the beginning of a common occurrence that has since become a Malevolent Creation trademark. As mastermind Phil Fasciana sums it up, "If you're too slow, you've got to go". Never allowing the revolving musicians to affect the power and skill of the band in a negative way, the rotation only added mystery and fan interest in the next step of the band’s career. Continuing to fight their martial battles stronger and stronger with each release, Malevolent Creation labeled 'The Mike Tyson of Death Metal' never let anyone down with new additions or replacements.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-Tracklist:

01. Deicide - Dead By Dawn     4:01
02. Pestilence - The Process Of Suffocation     2:40
03. Obituary - Platonic Disease     4:06
04. Suffocation - Infecting The Crypts     4:45
05. Brujeria - La Ley De Plomo     2:45
06. Gorguts - Hideous Infirmity     4:06
07. Believer - Wisdom's Call     3:43
08. Malevolent Creation - Sacrificial Annihilation     3:25
09. Disincarnate - Beyond The Flesh     4:48
10. Cynic - Veil Of Maya     5:18
11. Immolation - Into Everlasting Fire     5:10
12. Sorrow - Illusions Of Freedom     4:50
13. Skin Chamber - Carved In Skin     3:19

 

 

 

 

Label: Roadrunner Records.

 

Front sleeve states "16 monster death metal tracks" which is incorrect.

 
This cd has 13 tracks only as shown below.