Thick-raw-crunchy-heavy disgusting of sound producing make the "Pestilent" promo climb on my top playlist this recent days. This two-tracks promo really blew me up and can make my hearing face up a disgusting-purelent problem, (just imagine how ugly and stink that situations, HA!). Hailing deepest-down from Illinois graveyards, United States. And for the homage of horror and gore maniac, ROTTED will be a good disgusting-choice for you to pick what band you should worship this coming years. Follow me and Dylan Jones, (the creator behind the band) rotting-decompose on "Pestilent Tomb"! Death Metal, with disgusting, stink, and rotting flavors! BLUEERRGHHHH!!!
MIKA ROTTEN - Hi! And welcome to
the stinky and small room of DISCARNAGE, Dylan! How’s everything going today? I
guess you received a lot of response about the new DEATH METAL diseases that
you working for this coming lately. By the way, thanks for agreeing to reply this
filthy interview. I’m really appreciate your time and passion.
DYLAN JONES - Thanks
for the interest in ROTTED! Everything is going good! Yeah ROTTED kind of blew
up once the word got around! It was very unexpected, honestly. I recorded the
first few tracks and only posted them on Youtube and Facebook and somehow word
got around about it. I started getting a lot of interest very rapidly and
before I knew it, I had an offer to do a full-length album!
MIKA ROTTEN - I also know that you
are the man beyond the creation of UNLIFE. Without any doubt, UNLIFE probably
delivered a straight forward Old School Death Metal tastes. I got a chances to
listen to your EP, “Old Remains” before and what make me stunned on my chair
definitely raw death to the doom structure that UNLIFE build on that release.
Sick just fvcking sick-heavy! Should you write a little bit information and the
history about this band, and what the current situation of UNLIFE rite now.
DYLAN JONES - Unlife
was my first time ever really delving into Death Metal, and I've been hooked
ever since. The whole concept was based around some D&D character called
"Lord Soth" and his Death Knights. The name "Unlife"
actually comes from a booked called "Lord Soth" and near the end of
the book, there's a line that reads something along the lines of "And now,
as he sat on his throne pondering his former life and current unlife."
Right now, Unlife is on hold while I try to decide whether or not to keep going
with it or not. My two current projects (Rotted and Drenched) have me pretty
busy, and I can't really commit to a third one with just as much motivation.
MIKA ROTTEN - Ok! Let the previous
question hang like that. Let’s move to another band that you working on rite
now. ROTTED! I guess you much a pretty tired to listen to some tunes of DEATH
METAL stuff today. So I might thought the idea to create the band and the main
focus are to delivered more (much more!!)
heavy and disgusting tunes of DEATH METAL to metalhead around the DEATH METAL
maps. How that started from the beginning?
DYLAN JONES - Originally,
ROTTED was going to be nothing more than a side project of mine but I got an
offer to do a full-length album by Dark Blasphemies Records, and ever since
then it's gotten bigger than I ever thought it would! I just wanted to play something more sick and disgusting than I ever had done
before and it seems to have turned out well!
MIKA ROTTEN - Would you like to
describe the style of new band that you played rite now compare to older stuff
that you involved before? Did you have any goal that ROTTED probably should
sounded to be?
DYLAN JONES - I
never really had anything pre-planned for Rotted. It was just me wanting to
create some sick, disgusting sounding Death Metal. I was never even planning to
do an album, maybe just some demos for friends and what-not, but after it got
the attention it did, I felt I should take it more serious.
MIKA ROTTEN - I’m still waiting
your promo demo tape to knock my mail-boxes and can’t wait to hold this sick
stuff releases and later decompose with your putrid tunes! Let’s speak about
ROTTED “Pestilent” promo demo in more deepest, filthy and ugly in terms of song
de-compositon and the raw (dry-thick) sound that you build and make
it’s by yourself
DYLAN JONES - I
hope it arrives soon! Every day I come home from work, and I'll sit and play
guitar for a few hours jamming riffs. I usually use my phone to record riffs to
remember later, and eventually I'll just start piecing a song together. When
recording the demo, I used an old 4 track tape recorder, which I then had to
dub the tape so I could use a fifth track to do the vocals with. I love working
with the old analog equipment. It really gives that nice digusting sound when
doing demo tapes!
MIKA ROTTEN - There are a tracks
called “Pestilent Tomb” on your promo demo, the tracks totally slicing (festering) and make my ear purulent with
your sickost tunes and your deep ugly-howling growled. Can you brief us how the
song approach each other and to make it’s look disgusting differently?
DYLAN JONES - I
just try to keep the same disgusting sound with each song while making sure
they are quite different in terms of song structure and the riffs themselves.
MIKA ROTTEN - I’m really loved and
(fallen in love! Ha! Ha!) with the riff’s that you created on the promo demo. It’s
contained very much tastes of putrid DEATH METAL flavors, you can find many
sick-interesting rotting riff’s on each of your song. And also, your guitar
tones really got me! It’s really thick-raw-rotten tones !! If you don’t mind,
maybe you wanna share you gear / amp that you used during the recording process
of your promo demo.
DYLAN JONES - Haha,
thanks! The gear I used on the demo, as well as the gear I'm using for the
album are:
Guitar:
Epiphone Flying V "goth" edition, tuned to A. String gauges are:
12-16-32w-42-56-65
Bass: Some Cort 4-String model I've had for around 10 years
Amp: Ampeg VH140C, the best amp for Death Metal period!
Amp: Ampeg VH140C, the best amp for Death Metal period!
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| Ridden with disease!! |
MIKA ROTTEN - Nowdays, there are
some band started hailing and praise all the rotting and putrid DEATH METAL
bands from the past. Do you think ROTTED are one of them? In the middle of this
fvcking interview, any of them give a inspiration towards the ROTTED existences.
DYLAN JONES - There's
plenty of old bands, as well as new bands even, that helped give birth to
ROTTED! Rottrevore, early Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, early Death, Gorguts,
Infester, Purtenance, Demilich, Suffocation, Cianide, Disembowelment, Grave,
Gutted, Obituary, Undergang, Derketa/Mythic, Spectral Voice, Teitanblood, Phrenelith, etc.
MIKA ROTTEN - I’ve followed your
band tomb-pages (FB) since the early days when ROTTED appear on the suggestion
pages mode. And I read a news that David
Garcia from Dark Blasphemies Records will unleash your debut full-length album
in 2017. So, we already in half of 2017, what news regarding that release?
DYLAN JONES - The
album is done musically, and is currently being mixed by a man who stepped up
for the challenge of mixing this wall of noise that is ROTTED; Xavier! He's
done incredible work to it that I could never have done myself. He's turning
this album into an absolute killer of a record. Totally crushing and
disgusting! Right now we're planning for a release date in early Autumn!
MIKA ROTTEN - Played all the
instrument in a band by yourself something look difficult. But, I guess you
probably enjoy doing all itself. You already proved it’s with UNLIFE (DM) and
DRENCHED (DM) before. And now you do it’s again with ROTTED. Which part are the
most challenging? Find and build ideal guitar riff’s are the most challenging
part?
DYLAN JONES - You
know, I thought I would actually like playing in bands with other people,
getting the opportunites to play live and everything, but since 2014, Ive been
in a few local bands, and it was literally NOTHING but drama queens.
"Someone said something" or "someone did something that hurt my
feelings" blah blah blah. I wish I was exaggerating, but not even in the
slightest. At this point, I prefer working alone. It's challenging sometimes to
come up with song ideas that haven't already been done before, but that's why
it's important to take inspiration from lots of bands, mixing different styles
of influences can lead to some sick riffs!
MIKA ROTTEN - Is there some sick words about “Pestilent”
promo demo you received from the deadhead you should tell us? If you asked me,
I would say ROTTED are “..amazing rotten
pieces of Death Metal puzzles and its finally completed the tomb circles of
DEATH METAL-Underground. More heavy than others!!” UGH!
DYLAN JONES - Most
of the responses I've gotten have been very positive! Usually someone messages
me and tells me how sick and putrid it sounds! I try to interact a lot with the
fans and try to always follow up with them about the demo. For a while I was
sending letters with each tape I sent out, but I got a little to busy at work
and didn't have a lot of time to keep up with that in between sending the tapes
out to everyone.
MIKA ROTTEN - Did you make final
addition and mixing after all the tracks from your promo demo been done
recorded? I wonder if you didn’t satisfied on the result from the recording
process.
DYLAN JONES - Not
on the promo tape. I thought it sounded exactly as it should. Demo tapes aren't
supposed to be well produced. It's a demonstration of the style of music you
play. It doesn't need flashy over the top production. I've gotten quite a
positive reponse for how disgusting and filthy it sounds.
MIKA ROTTEN - I guess you received a lot of order of ROTTED
“Pestilent” promo demo tape, and it’s probably might out of copy rite now. Did
you work on re-issue of your promo demo after this? Your two-song probably fits
and look stenching on 7” wax I guess
DYLAN JONES - Since
it's been released, I've had an average of one sale a day, and there's been a
few days where I sold 5 or 6 in one day. I also did a few trades, one locally,
and another with a label from the West Coast called "Headsplit
Records." He sold out as soon as they were posted, which was a great thing
to hear! But yes, I have only about 3 tapes left at the time of this interview!
If someone were to offer a 7" pressing of the Promo I'd love to do it!
MIKA ROTTEN - We entering the final tomb of interview, and of
corpse without any doubt. ROTTED are the band that our readers should check
after this. SICK! AND DISGUSTING DEATH METAL directly from the rotten tomb!
Less before we hang and rotten, once again thanks for your time and I can’t
wait to rotten with the ROTTED
full-length albums soon! STAY SICK AND UGLY always! ROT FOREVER!!
DYLAN JONES - Thanks
for the interview! Soon I'll be posting the final cover art and the first fully
mixed track from the album! Keep your eyes out for "PESTILENT TOMB"
coming Autumn 2017! STAY ROTTED!
“..amazing
rotten pieces of lost-Death Metal puzzles and its finally completed the tomb
circles of DEATH METAL-Underground. More heavy than others!!” UGH!
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P/S : All photos credit goes to (rot) - DYLAN JONES / ROTTED
