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Rotten Sound – Mass Extinction EP Review
By Saunders
We may be swinging into the festive season; however, in a solidly fruitful year for grindcore enthusiasts, there is still much time to grind. Rocketing in late, Finland’s legendary Rotten Sound, one of grind’s most prolific, consistent, and underappreciated acts, return with their whopping 11th EP and follow-up to their eighth full-length, 2023’s Apocalypse. At this stage of a long and storied career, Rotten Sound revel in familiar realms of their crusty, grinding chaos, refusing to budge from a steadfast formula, while sounding as tight, energized, and pissed off as ever, impressively plying such an abrasive trade of extremity for over three decades. With scant time to get their point across, can Rotten Sound continue their impeccable track record?
A tick under ten minutes is all the wily Finnish heavyweights need to batter your senses and spike your adrenaline in typically violent fashion. While raw intensity and tautly wound balls of gnarled, punky riffs, dry-throated vox and cyclonic drumming remains at the forefront of Rotten Sound’s relentless mode of attack, their shrewd sense of melody, infectiously nasty riffcraft, and appreciation of the art of the down and dirty grind groove stands out from their peers. Mass Extinction may not stand amongst the band’s most essential work, but it certainly doesn’t feel phoned in or half-baked. Rotten Sound’s crafty tweaking of their trusty formula to remain fresh, coupled with youthful exuberance and seasoned rage, ensures they remain sonically and musically as sharp and intense as ever.
Rotten Sound continue deploying grind with a crunchy, punky d-beaten edge and Swedeath influence, combining modern Scando-grind with the classic spirit of the subgenre’s early forefathers. “Recycle” squeezes every ounce of energy, conviction, and barbed discordance from its accomplished architects, blasting and riffing at light speed, before detonating a trademark, beastly palette cleansing groove. It’s a lean, mean, furious delight. The song’s following counterparts largely follow suit in consistent quality and signature style, taking no prisoners. Rotten Sound mostly compensates for the lack of surprises with the sheer vitriolic rage and intensity they maintain on each release. Their steely edge showing no signs of softening, an impressive feat across such a lengthy career timespan, especially in grind years.
The chunky bulk of the material locks into full throttle savage mode, bursting with punky, belligerent fury (‘Polarized,” “Idealist,” “Empty Shells”). “Ride of the Future” incorporates sludgy, hefty riffs and grooves into its crusty assault, while “Brave New World” tinkers with greater tempo variation and snippets of melody within its sample-laden attack. Rotten Sound pack plenty into the EP’s scant runtime, with the only minor downside being the safety net familiarity and slight blurring of the songwriting lines on Mass Extinction’s rawest, fastest moments of white knuckled extremity. Keijo Niinimaa’s vocals sound as nasty and hateful as ever before, using global turbulence and political unrest as fuel for his vocal and lyrical spite. The rest of the band showcase typically impressive chops, tearing through each hyperspeed composition with tightly synced chemistry and sharp precision. Overall, the sonic profile is crisp and crunchy, with the right amount of filth in the guitar tone. Unfortunately, another brickwalled master brings the experience down a notch.
Mass Extinction marks another worthy entry into the unstoppable canon of one of grindcore’s enduring legends. Although it cannot contend with the band’s best works, Mass Extinction possesses the signature stamp of quality that has trademarked Rotten Sound’s career. Perfect for a rev-up or cathartic release, Rotten Sound hit the mark again, punching an exclamation point on the grind scene for 2025. Here’s hoping 2026 delivers another similarly brutal, top-notch year of grind.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
DR: 5 | Media Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Season of Mist
Websites: Official | Facebook | Bandcamp
Releases Worldwide: December 12th, 2025#2025 #30 #FinnishMetal #Grindcore #MassExtinction #Review #Reviews #RottenSound #SeasonOfMistRecords
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Rotten Sound – Mass Extinction EP Review
By Saunders
We may be swinging into the festive season; however, in a solidly fruitful year for grindcore enthusiasts, there is still much time to grind. Rocketing in late, Finland’s legendary Rotten Sound, one of grind’s most prolific, consistent, and underappreciated acts, return with their whopping 11th EP and follow-up to their eighth full-length, 2023’s Apocalypse. At this stage of a long and storied career, Rotten Sound revel in familiar realms of their crusty, grinding chaos, refusing to budge from a steadfast formula, while sounding as tight, energized, and pissed off as ever, impressively plying such an abrasive trade of extremity for over three decades. With scant time to get their point across, can Rotten Sound continue their impeccable track record?
A tick under ten minutes is all the wily Finnish heavyweights need to batter your senses and spike your adrenaline in typically violent fashion. While raw intensity and tautly wound balls of gnarled, punky riffs, dry-throated vox and cyclonic drumming remains at the forefront of Rotten Sound’s relentless mode of attack, their shrewd sense of melody, infectiously nasty riffcraft, and appreciation of the art of the down and dirty grind groove stands out from their peers. Mass Extinction may not stand amongst the band’s most essential work, but it certainly doesn’t feel phoned in or half-baked. Rotten Sound’s crafty tweaking of their trusty formula to remain fresh, coupled with youthful exuberance and seasoned rage, ensures they remain sonically and musically as sharp and intense as ever.
Rotten Sound continue deploying grind with a crunchy, punky d-beaten edge and Swedeath influence, combining modern Scando-grind with the classic spirit of the subgenre’s early forefathers. “Recycle” squeezes every ounce of energy, conviction, and barbed discordance from its accomplished architects, blasting and riffing at light speed, before detonating a trademark, beastly palette cleansing groove. It’s a lean, mean, furious delight. The song’s following counterparts largely follow suit in consistent quality and signature style, taking no prisoners. Rotten Sound mostly compensates for the lack of surprises with the sheer vitriolic rage and intensity they maintain on each release. Their steely edge showing no signs of softening, an impressive feat across such a lengthy career timespan, especially in grind years.
The chunky bulk of the material locks into full throttle savage mode, bursting with punky, belligerent fury (‘Polarized,” “Idealist,” “Empty Shells”). “Ride of the Future” incorporates sludgy, hefty riffs and grooves into its crusty assault, while “Brave New World” tinkers with greater tempo variation and snippets of melody within its sample-laden attack. Rotten Sound pack plenty into the EP’s scant runtime, with the only minor downside being the safety net familiarity and slight blurring of the songwriting lines on Mass Extinction’s rawest, fastest moments of white knuckled extremity. Keijo Niinimaa’s vocals sound as nasty and hateful as ever before, using global turbulence and political unrest as fuel for his vocal and lyrical spite. The rest of the band showcase typically impressive chops, tearing through each hyperspeed composition with tightly synced chemistry and sharp precision. Overall, the sonic profile is crisp and crunchy, with the right amount of filth in the guitar tone. Unfortunately, another brickwalled master brings the experience down a notch.
Mass Extinction marks another worthy entry into the unstoppable canon of one of grindcore’s enduring legends. Although it cannot contend with the band’s best works, Mass Extinction possesses the signature stamp of quality that has trademarked Rotten Sound’s career. Perfect for a rev-up or cathartic release, Rotten Sound hit the mark again, punching an exclamation point on the grind scene for 2025. Here’s hoping 2026 delivers another similarly brutal, top-notch year of grind.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
DR: 5 | Media Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Season of Mist
Websites: Official | Facebook | Bandcamp
Releases Worldwide: December 12th, 2025#2025 #30 #FinnishMetal #Grindcore #MassExtinction #Review #Reviews #RottenSound #SeasonOfMistRecords
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ROTTEN SOUND (Finlàndia) presenta nou EP: "Mass Extinction" #RottenSound #Grindcore #Desembre2025 #Finlàndia #NouEp #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic
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Tonight's 📷🎥 office will be #thornhill + #oceangrove + #bloom for 📍 #DeHelling (SOLD OUT) 📷
Who will I see there?
Today I wrote a #WhiteRoomReviews item about #rottensound 💿 #seasonofmist
Go check it out on WR 🫶
Beanie from this fit is from #mercenary 🖤 #oktoberpromotion
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Teething – Ralph - 7"
#Punk #blastbeats #dbeat #deathmetal #entombedcore #grindcore #hardcore #nails #napalmdeath #pigdestroyer #powerviolence #rottensound #Madrid
CC BY (#CreativeCommons Attribution) #ccmusic
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Teething – Ralph - 7"
#Punk #blastbeats #dbeat #deathmetal #entombedcore #grindcore #hardcore #nails #napalmdeath #pigdestroyer #powerviolence #rottensound #Madrid
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Rotten Sound - Brave New World (Official Music Video)
https://youtu.be/PnXza57bf44
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Dagens rens kommer från #finland och heter #rottensound. Albumet är #exit och blastbeatsen haglar. #grindcore #music Kanske nåt får @nikolar
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Dagens rens kommer från #finland och heter #rottensound. Albumet är #exit och blastbeatsen haglar. #grindcore #music Kanske nåt får @nikolar
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No Shelter. – Remission/Resolve Review
By Angry Metal Guy
Written By Nameless_n00b_605
These days, it seems everywhere I turn, I can’t help but run into a great band from Germany. I don’t know what’s in the water over there, but with groups like Kanonenfieber, Unhallowed Deliverance, and classic acts like Sodom releasing great records, it’s no surprise that yet another talented group hails from Deutschland. No Shelter. is a five-piece from Münster that peddles in D-beat brutalization with a heaping helping of Boss HM-2 pedal worship. Its latest, Remission/Resolve, is a bass-driven freight train of Swedish-coded blackened death metal, crust punk, and hardcore, conjuring direct comparisons to genre stalwarts like Nails, Rotten Sound, and Trap Them. Can No Shelter. stand in the spotlight with some of the most vicious rippers around, or is it flying too close to the sun, wax wings ready to send it to hell with the rest of the copycats?
No Shelter. is relatively new to the scene (forming in 2017), but it sounds like a veteran unit. Every element of the band feels honed for their specific brand of violence. Thick, earth-shaking bass drives the album, while HM-2-infused riffage switches between blackened death blasts and Pantera-esque grooves. Bolstered by intricate drum fills and classic hardcore 2-step energy, the vocals are equally caustic, calling to mind a truly evil combo of Ringworm’s James Bulloch and Nails’ Todd Jones. No Shelter. plays with no holds barred throughout the entire album, and each band member takes to their role with a reckless abandon more than fitting for their genre inspirations.
The brutally sludgy bass is the adrenaline-juiced heart that keeps Remission/Resolve pumping. Where bands like Job for a Cowboy and Horrendous use bass to shore up their technicality and the spaciness of their sound, No Shelter. uses it as a sledgehammer. Bass is integral to metal, making riffs deeper, heavier, and more impactful overall, and No Shelter. just gets it. Every riff is complemented by slapping destruction, and the bass gets to fly free or drive breakdowns such as on tracks “Rotten,” “Doomed,” and “Ultimate Disgust”. No Shelter. suplexes the trend of bass-less metal right into the dumpster with And Justice for All.
Another element where No Shelter. pulls its sound from the Swedish death metal sewer is the production. The band wears its Entombed inspiration on its sleeve proudly (if the “Wolverine Blues” cover didn’t already give it away), and the HM-2 pedal is all over Remission/Resolve. Production was something No Shelter. wanted to nail, and Remission/Resolve is borderline perfect in this area. The bass is suitably nasty without sounding like a punchline (sorry Primus, I still love you), the snare drum hits hard without becoming tinny, and the vocals are discernible while still retaining the rawness and emotionality required for D-beat destruction. To cap it all off, the guitar brings cohesion to Remission/Resolve with that classic chainsaw tone that would make bands like Hath, Dismember, and Dormant Ordeal proud.
Remission/Resolve isn’t perfect, although where it stumbles isn’t in songwriting or musicianship. This LP lasts a blistering 32 minutes, but the collection of twelve tracks starts with an intro, features two interludes, and a cover as the final track. While I appreciate the interludes as breaks from the aural onslaught on Remission/Resolve, they vary in quality. The unoriginally titled “Intro” (at least it knows what it is) is suitably sinister and builds up anticipation, but the two interludes are almost too simple musically and seem to only exist to let the listener breathe. An admirable idea, and one that is necessary for a lot of albums in this genre, but these moments would be better served attached to the end of already existing tracks. On top of that, I wish they would loop back in on the musical themes established across the album and in the intro, as it stands, the two interludes “I” and “II” feel like they come from a different album.
No Shelter. ends up with a very good record that stands nearly toe-to-toe with its genre inspirations and rightfully lives up to the bands it references so heavily. Therefore, it is fitting that Remission/Resolve closes things with a rip-roaring cover of Entombed’s “Wolverine Blues,” a song that slides so well into the band’s sound, it took me a minute to realize it was a cover in the first place. “Wolverine Blues” ends up feeling perfectly placed right alongside the best tracks on the album and works as a self-referential closer to an album chock-full of Swedish buzzsaw worship. No Shelter. doesn’t so much rock the boat with its brand of blackened hardcore as it does slap a fuckin’ motor on it and violently rocket across the lake.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: This Charming Man Records
Websites: noshelter.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/NoShelterBand
Releases Worldwide: July 25th, 2025#2025 #35 #BlackenedDeathMetal #Crust #DBeat #Dismember #DormantOrdeal #Entombed #GermanMetal #Hardcore #Hath #Jul25 #Kanonenfieber #Nails #NoShelter_ #Primus #RemissionResolve #Review #Reviews #RottenSound #Sodom #SwedishDeathMetal #TrapThem #UnhallowedDeliverance
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No Shelter. – Remission/Resolve Review
By Angry Metal Guy
Written By Nameless_n00b_605
These days, it seems everywhere I turn, I can’t help but run into a great band from Germany. I don’t know what’s in the water over there, but with groups like Kanonenfieber, Unhallowed Deliverance, and classic acts like Sodom releasing great records, it’s no surprise that yet another talented group hails from Deutschland. No Shelter. is a five-piece from Münster that peddles in D-beat brutalization with a heaping helping of Boss HM-2 pedal worship. Its latest, Remission/Resolve, is a bass-driven freight train of Swedish-coded blackened death metal, crust punk, and hardcore, conjuring direct comparisons to genre stalwarts like Nails, Rotten Sound, and Trap Them. Can No Shelter. stand in the spotlight with some of the most vicious rippers around, or is it flying too close to the sun, wax wings ready to send it to hell with the rest of the copycats?
No Shelter. is relatively new to the scene (forming in 2017), but it sounds like a veteran unit. Every element of the band feels honed for their specific brand of violence. Thick, earth-shaking bass drives the album, while HM-2-infused riffage switches between blackened death blasts and Pantera-esque grooves. Bolstered by intricate drum fills and classic hardcore 2-step energy, the vocals are equally caustic, calling to mind a truly evil combo of Ringworm’s James Bulloch and Nails’ Todd Jones. No Shelter. plays with no holds barred throughout the entire album, and each band member takes to their role with a reckless abandon more than fitting for their genre inspirations.
The brutally sludgy bass is the adrenaline-juiced heart that keeps Remission/Resolve pumping. Where bands like Job for a Cowboy and Horrendous use bass to shore up their technicality and the spaciness of their sound, No Shelter. uses it as a sledgehammer. Bass is integral to metal, making riffs deeper, heavier, and more impactful overall, and No Shelter. just gets it. Every riff is complemented by slapping destruction, and the bass gets to fly free or drive breakdowns such as on tracks “Rotten,” “Doomed,” and “Ultimate Disgust”. No Shelter. suplexes the trend of bass-less metal right into the dumpster with And Justice for All.
Another element where No Shelter. pulls its sound from the Swedish death metal sewer is the production. The band wears its Entombed inspiration on its sleeve proudly (if the “Wolverine Blues” cover didn’t already give it away), and the HM-2 pedal is all over Remission/Resolve. Production was something No Shelter. wanted to nail, and Remission/Resolve is borderline perfect in this area. The bass is suitably nasty without sounding like a punchline (sorry Primus, I still love you), the snare drum hits hard without becoming tinny, and the vocals are discernible while still retaining the rawness and emotionality required for D-beat destruction. To cap it all off, the guitar brings cohesion to Remission/Resolve with that classic chainsaw tone that would make bands like Hath, Dismember, and Dormant Ordeal proud.
Remission/Resolve isn’t perfect, although where it stumbles isn’t in songwriting or musicianship. This LP lasts a blistering 32 minutes, but the collection of twelve tracks starts with an intro, features two interludes, and a cover as the final track. While I appreciate the interludes as breaks from the aural onslaught on Remission/Resolve, they vary in quality. The unoriginally titled “Intro” (at least it knows what it is) is suitably sinister and builds up anticipation, but the two interludes are almost too simple musically and seem to only exist to let the listener breathe. An admirable idea, and one that is necessary for a lot of albums in this genre, but these moments would be better served attached to the end of already existing tracks. On top of that, I wish they would loop back in on the musical themes established across the album and in the intro, as it stands, the two interludes “I” and “II” feel like they come from a different album.
No Shelter. ends up with a very good record that stands nearly toe-to-toe with its genre inspirations and rightfully lives up to the bands it references so heavily. Therefore, it is fitting that Remission/Resolve closes things with a rip-roaring cover of Entombed’s “Wolverine Blues,” a song that slides so well into the band’s sound, it took me a minute to realize it was a cover in the first place. “Wolverine Blues” ends up feeling perfectly placed right alongside the best tracks on the album and works as a self-referential closer to an album chock-full of Swedish buzzsaw worship. No Shelter. doesn’t so much rock the boat with its brand of blackened hardcore as it does slap a fuckin’ motor on it and violently rocket across the lake.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: This Charming Man Records
Websites: noshelter.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/NoShelterBand
Releases Worldwide: July 25th, 2025#2025 #35 #BlackenedDeathMetal #Crust #DBeat #Dismember #DormantOrdeal #Entombed #GermanMetal #Hardcore #Hath #Jul25 #Kanonenfieber #Nails #NoShelter_ #Primus #RemissionResolve #Review #Reviews #RottenSound #Sodom #SwedishDeathMetal #TrapThem #UnhallowedDeliverance
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Brujeria to honor Juan Brujo & Pinche Peach on upcoming European Tour w/ Carcass & Rotten Sound; new dates added:
#Brujeria #EuropeanTour #Carcass #RottenSound
https://metalinsider.net/touring/brujeria-to-honor-juan-brujo-new-dates-added
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For #GrindayFriday hosted by @vanessawynn, this week i'm going with #RottenSound. I love this band so much.
I'm listening to Trashmonger by Rotten Sound
https://songwhip.com/rotten-sound/trashmonger
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THE WEEKLY INJECTION: New Releases From LORDI, SERMON, ROTTEN SOUND & More Out Today 3/31
Plus releases from Ad Infinitum, Bury Tomorrow, Demonstealer, Poh Hock, Last In Line, and Thron.#Lordi #Sermon #RottenSound #HeavyMusic #NewRelease #OutToday #MetalInjection
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THE WEEKLY INJECTION: New Releases From LORDI, SERMON, ROTTEN SOUND & More Out Today 3/31
Plus releases from Ad Infinitum, Bury Tomorrow, Demonstealer, Poh Hock, Last In Line, and Thron.#Lordi #Sermon #RottenSound #HeavyMusic #NewRelease #OutToday #MetalInjection
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🇬🇧 Finnish death/grind legends Rotten Sound will release their new album, 'Apocalypse', through Season of Mist on March 15, 2023. You can give the first single, 'Sharing', a listen on their #Bandcamp page.
