Rotten Sound
Rotten Sound is a grindcore band from Vaasa, Finland, formed in 1993. The band comprises vocalist Keijo Niinimaa, guitarist Mika Aalto, bassist Kristian Toivainen and drummer Sami Latva. The band has released eight studio albums and "earned a reputation for being one of the most intense bands on the Scandinavian death metal/grindcore scene".
History
Formation, Under Pressure and Drain (1993–2000)
Rotten Sound was founded by guitarist Mika Aalto in Vaasa, Finland, in 1993. The group started recordings in 1994, releasing the single Sick Bastard through Genet label. Their subsequent underground releases, between singles and EPs, included 1995's Psychotic Veterinarian on SOA, 1996's Loosin' Face on Anomie, and 1997's Splitted Alive on IDS.
Rotten Sound's first full-length album, Under Pressure, was released by Repulse Records (a Spanish label) in 1998 and was followed by Drain (also on Repulse) in 1999. This album was also the debut of second guitarist Juha Ylikoski. In early 2000, the band signed with American Necropolis Records, a subsidiary Deathvomit label for release the EP Still Psycho, which included a cover of Carcass's "Reek of Putrefaction". Paul Kott of Allmusic praised the album saying, "Rotten Sound does a good job, and although the audio production does leave something to be desired, the finished product is well worth listening to for any fan of earlier death metal and more recent grindcore. The video segments are very well-produced, with fantastic live audio recording, multiple camera angles, and good edits." The band toured in Europe to promote the album, along with label mates Hateplow, In Aeturnum and Malevolent Creation.
Rotten Sound
ALBUMS
- Cursed released: 2011
- Cycles released: 2008
- Exit released: 2005
- Murderworks released: 2002
- Drain released: 1999
- Under Pressure released: 1998
- From Crust 'til Grind released:
From Crust 'til Grind
- Chainsaw Is God
- I Disappear Into Darkness
- Nymphomaniac
- Police Raped a Pensioner
- Anal Sadist
- Brains Putrefy
- Mom
- Fanatic Motherfucker
- Cry
- Observers
- Powerty, Part II
- Social Rinse
- Loosin' Face
- Black Rain of Bureaucracy
- Subordinated
- Saviour - Pressurewave
- Nerves
- I, a Product
- Renewer
- Corporate Fuck
- Your Fault
- Acoustics of the Silence
- Veenom
- Burtsum
- A Religion?
- Köyhyys
- Koiranyrjö
- Verta ja suolenpätkiä
- Lottovoitto
- Painajainen
- Splatteria ja horroria
- E-pillerin kevät
- Jatkuva hulluus
- Lekalla päähän
- Tautinen äpärä
- Perfection
- Ignorance
- StrongMan
- Disinterest
- Lack of Awareness
Doom
[M: Q, G, ROTTEN SOUND]
[L: G]
Ignorant thieves stole the spark inside
Fire put out for good, can it be started again?
Restrained needs to perform dam up by wicked fools
No way to express inner self, repressed with no cure
Repression!
External blockage!
Spiritual suppression!
Damned by oppression!
Unhealed but able to inhale, rejected with clear signs!
Breathe the toxic waste from physical damnation
Restrained needs to perform dam up by wicked fools
No way to express inner self, repressed with no cure
Repression!
External blockage!
Spiritual suppression!
Doomed by damnation!
Damned by oppression!
Doomed by damnation!
Ignorant thieves stole the spark inside
Fire put out for good, can it be started again?
Restrained needs to perform dam up by wicked fools
No way to express inner self, repressed with no cure
Repression!
External blockage!
Spiritual suppression!
Damned by oppression!
Repression!
External blockage!
Spiritual suppression!
Doomed by damnation!
Damned by oppression!