Tombstoner's Three-Step Guide to Disgusting Death Metal: "Rot Stink Rip" (Early Track Stream)
Do not let the desiccated horde adorning Rot Stink Rip's artwork deceive you: there's meat on these bones. A heaping serving of chewy riffs, Tombstoner's new record is a feast of over-the-top death metal that achieves grisly success through entirely excessive execution. The band's sonic density -- two guitars, two vocals, everything punchy as all hell -- thrives in this rancid landscape of far-flung, gore-drenched scenarios and aggravated nihilism. It almost feels like a mathematical constraint: their cranked-up approach to death metal demands similarly exhilarating subject matter. That isn't to say that this ventures into comedy or pure absurdity -- the New York crew offer a hard-to-imitate mix of blood-spattered satire and dead-serious violence.
To get a snapshot of this mix, we're premiering the title track from the album below. Weed infiltrates this track like an elder god might haunt cosmic death metal -- rather than dabbling in puns or encouraging listeners to get high (although, nobody's saying you can't), "Rot Stink Rip" leans into the classic horror tropes that surround the drug and follows an insane narrative that celebrates the mythos around it. Dig in and get your fill.
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The band comments:
The title came to me one day at work. To keep it simple, I'm an electrician and my crew was on a job pulling underground feeders across an entire military base. To clear out the manholes we had to pull the cables through, because they were filled with a lakes worth of water, were these industrial pumps that would pump the water from the manholes onto the road. Anything to save a buck, my company bought comically cheap hoses to get the job done. One of the guys on our crew made a comment saying, "I hate these hoses, first they rot, then they start stinking, and then they rip". In my hungover daze of that morning, I immediately perked up, wrote it down, and called Jason telling him I found the title to our album. Later that day we met up and formulated the ridiculous plot for the lyrics of what would soon become the title track.
The ridiculous plot I alluded to revolves around a medical experiment gone horribly wrong. In trying to resurrect the recently deceased, a group of scientists create unnaturally aggressive, bloodthirsty zombies. In an attempt to cover up their vicious mistake, they try to gas out the lab with weed. Despite these lazy efforts, the zombies over power the scientists, eat them, and then break out into the world. Could this song be a sarcastic portrayal of human greed and ego? Maybe. You decide.
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Rot Stink Rip releases April 26th via Redefining Darkness Records.
The band is going on tour in April and May -- details below.
