BIO
The Finnish up-tempo-junkies Rotten Sound has been delivering their top notch grind with crust and death influences since the forming of the band on one crazy night in July of 1993. Their upcoming album, Cursed, is going to drop a few new jaws among the ones, that have been gasping for air after every earlier release. "We wanted to stay in the grind-core genre, but the album contains also dark and heavy moments right before your ears are getting maimed again by insane drumming, crushing guitars, distorted bass and senseless screaming" says the vocalist Keijo Niinimaa, who has been in the band since the very beginning and has seen the evolution from crust to grind and beyond.
Lyrically Cursed takes the listeners behind the scenes of the global tragedy we experience on daily basis. "After the apocalyptic Cycles I started to think about the reasons behind all the problems we cause to ourselves and this planet. I found myself studying the human nature and I came up with the six curses of humanity that degrade all of us generation after generation, culture after culture and disaster after disaster." continues Niinimaa about the lyrical content of the album.
Rotten Sound has been touring actively since the beginning of the millennium and is always looking for possibilities to conquer new territories while they continue pounding Europe and USA over and over again with their auditory assaults. Their long touring history consist of shared shows with Carcass, Disfear, Suffocation, Malevolent Creation, Rotting Christ, Misery Index, Sayyadina, Magrudergrind, Trap Them and Aborted to mention a few of fellows in grind.
Their pre-Cursed back-catalogue consists of five albums, one live DVD, and bunch of other releases and many of them are considered as the corner-stones of modern grind-core. Murderworks is the album that the fans considers their new beginning and follow-up Exit got the band a solid state among extreme music listeners around the world. The follow-up, Cycles, was their soundtrack for the auto-apocalypse of humanity and Cursed is executing a precise and cynical mental autopsy for the reasons behind the centuries of misery and destruction (to come).
Line-Up:
Sami Latva - Drums
Mika Aalto - Guitars
Kristian Toivainen - Bass
Keijo Niinimaa - Vocals
Discography:
2011 Cursed (Relapse Records, Fullsteam Records)
2010 Napalm-MLD/EP+DVD (Relapse Records)
2008 Cycles CD/LP (Spinefarm Records, Tsunami Entertainment, Cyclone Empire, Combat Rock Industry)
2006 Consume to Contaminate MCD/MLP (Spinefarm Records, Power-It-Up Records)
2005 Exit LP (Spinefarm Records, Willowtip Records, No Tolerance Records)
2004 Murderlive DVD (Spinefarm Records)
2003 From Crust ‘til Grind Compilation-CD (Century Media Records, Necropolis Records)
2002 Murderworks CD/LP (Relapse Records, Century Media Records, Necropolis Records, Autopsy Stench)
2002 Seeds of Hate Split-CD with Mastic Scum
2001 8-hours of Lobotony Split-CD with Unholy Grave (MCR Company)
2000 Still Psycho MCD/MLP (Necropolis Records, Merciless Records)
1998 Drain CD/LP (Repulse Records, S.O.A. Records)
1997 Under Pressure CD/LP (Repulse Records, Revenge Productions)
1996 Loosin' Face 10" Picture Disc (Anomie Records)
1995 Psychotic Veterinarian MCD/7" (S.O.A. Records)
1994 Sick Bastard 7" (Genet Records)
Touring Highlights:
2011 Europe: Rotten Sound, Trap Them, Gaza, Nails, Haust (Avocado Booking)
2011 USA/CAN: Finntroll, Ensiferum, Rotten Sound, Barren Earth (First Row Talent)
2010 Europe: Rotten Sound, Aborted (Avocado Booking)
2009 USA: Misery Index, Rotten Sound, Crowpath, Maruta (D.I.Y.)
2008 USA/CAN: Carcass, Suffocation, 1349, Aborted, Rotten Sound (TKO)
2008 Europe: Rotten Sound, The Ocean, Victims, Trap Them (Avocado Booking)
2007 Europe: Rotting Christ, Malevolent Creation, Rotten Sound, Enthrallment, Sardonic (Massive Music)
2006 Europe: Rotten Sound, Sayyadina (Rotten Tours / Fullsteam Agency)
2005 USA: Misery Index, Rotten Sound, Magrudergrind (D.I.Y.)
2005 Scandinavia: Rotten Sound, Disfear (Fullsteam Agency / Luger Agency)
2004 USA: Phobia, Rotten Sound (Thunderdome Booking)
2004 Scandinavia: Rotten Sound, Defleshed, Sotajumala (Fullsteam Agency / Rotten Tours)
2003 Europe: Hateplow, Rotten Sound, Debauchery (Bruchstein)
2002 Finland: Rotten Sound, Deepred, Inferia (Rotten Tours)
2002 Europe: Rotten Sound, Fleshless, Lykathea Aflame (Obscene Productions)
2001 Europe: Malevolent Creation, In Aeternum, Hateplow, Rotten Sound (Metallysee)
Festival Highlights:
Maryland Deathfest (2004, 2005, 2007, 2009)
Roskilde Festival (2008)
Hellfest (2008)
Obscene Extreme Festival (2000, 2002, 2007)
Summer Breeze (2008)
Tuska Open Air Festival (2001, 2003, 2005, 2009)
Party San Open Air (2006, 2009)
Brutal Assault (2006, 2010)
With Full Force (2007)
Inferno Festival (2007)
Neurotic Deathfest (2009, 2010)
Kaltenbach Open Air (2010)
Provinssirock (2008)
Ilosaarirock (2006, 2008)
Los Angeles Murderfest (2009)
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