Rotten Sound

Keijo of Rotten Sound, MDF 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG) On their way to dates at Maryland Deathfest and Chaos in Tejas, Rotten Sound will team with an amazing bill in NYC: Hellshock, Kromosom and Nomad to headline Acheron on May 22...

Nasum 2011 When Nasum were active, they were at the forefront of Swedish grindcore. They took the best from their peers in Sweden's fertile death metal and punk/dbeat scenes and viewed it through the lens of grindcore...

wow. From a press release:"You thought NASUM was dead? We are. This is not resurrection. It's farewell, for good." "If things were different, if Mieszko hadn't died, NASUM would have celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2012...

DOWNLOAD: Rotten Sound - "Plan" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Maruta - "March Forward (Into Regression)" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Maruta - "Hand Of THe Overseer" (MP3) With all of the love floating around for the new Trap Them LP (totally warranted), I'm a bit puzzled that their future European tour mates Rotten Sound hasn't rattled as many cages...

Torche at Beerland during SXSW (more here) After their recent van robbery in Chicago, Hydra Head Records said that, "Torche is already sorting out potential DIY gigs in the states...

The oh-so-Brutal Truth Pummeling, fist-pumping, extreme grindcore was the order of the day at Europa in Brooklyn on Sunday (5/17). It was day two of the Auditory Assault Festival, and the godfathers of modern grind, Brutal Truth, met up with the mighty Misery Index, Rotten Sound (who released one of my fave records of 2008), Crowpath (them too), Total Fucking Destruction (with Richard Hoak of BT), Pigsty, Jig-ai, Sulaco, and others...

Brutal Truth @ Maryland Deathfest 2007 Maryland Deathfest's belligerent younger sibling, Auditory Assault Fest, takes place THIS WEEKEND in Brooklyn on May 16th and 17th At Europa...

DOWNLOAD: Maruta - "The Collapse" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Kill The Client - "Divide & Conquer" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Copremesis - "Zombie" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Defeatist - "Isolation Tactics" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Misery Index - "Conquistadores" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Crowpath - "Plague Bearer" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Rotten Sound - "Targets" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Gadget - "HSN1" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Jig-Ai - "Shu-Lin" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Sulaco - "Model Of Inefficiency" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Sayyadina - "My Say Shall Be The Last" (MP3) The ante has been upped...

DOWNLOAD: Harpoon - "Frogs, Boils, Locusts..." (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Complete Failure - "Like Rainbows in Gasoline" Demo (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Complete Failure - "Brown Acid Brainwound" Demo (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Complete Failure - "Subliminal Force of Suggestive Notion" Demo (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Super Happy Fun Slide - "Fast One" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Super Happy Fun Slide - "Bohemian" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Elder - "White Walls" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Serpentcult - "The Weight Of Light" (MP3) Welcome to this week in Metal...

sunn o))) @ Knitting Factory (more by Damien Neva) Ya hear that rumble? Thats the sound of great records perched in the distance waiting to descend on 2009 (more on that later)...