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| Murderworks | 
 enlarge | Artist: Rotten Sound
Label: Relapse
Category: Music
List Price: $14.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 121866
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 781676646722
EAN: 7816766467222
ASIN: B000AXS6LW
Release Date: October 11, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | Targets | | • | Void | | • | Revenge | | • | Lies | | • | Doom | | • | IQ | | • | Seeds | | • | Obey | | • | Edge | | • | Lobotomy | | • | Insane | | • | Agony |
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Album Description
There is nothing merciful about Rotten Sound's blistering grindcore attack. Founded in Vaasa, Finland in 1993, the band quickly earned a reputation for being one of the most intense bands of the Scandinavian metal scene. Murderworks is a ferocious and violent work of art. Features 14 tracks plus 3 bonus CD Rom videos 'Targets', 'Seeds' (live) & 'Strongman' (live). Relapse Records. 2005.
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Aggressive, Intense, and Intelligent June 26, 2002
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The Finnish Grindcore band Rotten Sound, which has been mercilessly terrorizing the international underground Grind scene since 1993, seems to have done the improbable - gain the respect and admiration of Metal, Crust, Hardcore, and Grind scenes equally. These genres are typically worlds apart and militantly independent from one another (especially with the violent divide between Crust and Metal in America), but Rotten Sound have an intelligent and honest quality which makes them highly regarded across the board, as do Phobia and Nasum, other Grind acts which have also enjoyed some multi-genre praise. In fact, when I used to mainly mailorder from DIY Crust Punk distros I used to see Rotten Sound's music in just about every catalog. As it ends up, "Murderworks" doesn't fail in raising the bar once again in extremity and execution, ensuring that Rotten Sound have once again succeeded in proving that extremity knows no boundaries or musical genres.
Upon first listen, it's obvious that Rotten Sound don't play Grind for the sake of making fast-paced noise - they're on a mission to stretch and destroy convention. Their instruments are their weapons in a war on music itself and each track is an attack on the senses. The immense talents oozing from their pores are unmistakable. The compositions themselves make the listener (victim, if truth be told...) aware that each member comes from different musical backgrounds yet still orchestrate a sonic offensive that is immensely greater than the sum of its parts. In other words, musical worlds collide on "Murderworks" - and that's the whole point. If any further evidence is necessary, simply pop the disk in your PC and watch the three filmed-on-stage videos. Absolutely no mercy...
Point blank, Rotten Sound is revolutionizing Grindcore. The band itself has stated that "success is always cool, but progress is much more important." Here's the proof, kids. Aggressive, intense, and intelligent - three words that only begin to describe "Murderworks", yet offer no clue as to just how violent it gets. I suggest you take a very deep breath before hitting the PLAY button, because you won't have time to come up for air until well after the carnage is over. And with each successive listen, the album title and cover art make more and more sense...
For people searching pure violence. June 16, 2004
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
this cd is incredible. not just because its really heavy and fast and that the guys can really play, but because it is one of the most violent bands and albums i have ever heard. i didnt expect such performances from this band as they have showed on the bonus movies. the guys look really awesome, in some points disgusting. but they are a band to respect by every fan of heavy music.
HYPER-FAST DEATH/GRIND CORE TO THE BONE!!! June 23, 2002
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you only buy one cd this year and you want heavy super fast death/grind then look no further my friends!! This cd as it all fast guitars that sound like a machine guns and lets not forget the drums and very very brutal vocals!! The lyrics are sick as one mit come to accept . So buy this one and get killed over and over again!! fans of carcass and origin and deeds of flesh & disgorge(mex)
Well now... April 30, 2005
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was just about to write a review for this CD when I stumbled upon a review that pretty much described my reaction to this CD so I will post it instead:
"In Finland, you would be hard-pressed to find an extreme metal band that is more extreme than Rotten Sound. Since their inception in the early '90s, Rotten Sound has favored a violent, claustrophobic, mercilessly abrasive style of death metal/grindcore -- and the moshers show no sign of softening their blows on Murderworks. This 2002 release gives the listener no room to breathe; from start to finish, Murderworks is an exercise in sensory assault for the sake of sensory assault. Rotten Sound almost always plays at the same tempo -- insanely fast -- and the Scandinavians don't pretend to be even the least bit melodic. Like previous Rotten Sound releases, Murderworks is one-dimensional. After you have heard the opening number, "Targets," you've pretty much heard it all; headbangers who like their metal albums with a lot of variety won't find it here. But despite the CD's obvious limitations, Murderworks is, in its own way, exhilarating -- that is, if you have a taste for this type of extreme metal. To be sure, death metal/grindcore releases as ferocious and amelodic as Murderworks are an acquired taste. Bands like Rotten Sound are not everyone's cup of tea, which is why the Finns have never even come to mainstream acceptance -- not in Europe, not in Japan, not in the United States. But the band has, since the early '90s, enjoyed a small underground cult following, and those are the people who Murderworks caters to. This album breaks no new ground for the band; nonetheless, it will probably appeal to the select few who like the Finnish moshers exactly like this -- limitations and all. ~ Alex Henderson
So there you have it. If you liked what you read then definately buy a copy of this.
They call it "Murdergrind." I call it a masterpiece. June 10, 2008
Rotten Sound has given us some of the most ferocious records you can find today. And that is a very good thing. Murderworks is one of the very epitomes of ugly music. Extremely distorted, almost completely unintelligible guitars and wall-to-wall drums fill almost every second of the CD. It's a complete sensory assault that really brings meaning to the term "grindcore."
The guitars are too distorted to really pick out the riffs as mentioned before but it's drummer Kai Hahto (who after this release left and joined symphonic metal band Wintersun) who's the main attraction. Much like Cryptopsy drummer Flo Mounier, Kai is able to take complex jazz beats and play them at upwards of 200+ BPM.
Lyrics are typical grind material taking on social injustice, greed and other very relevant issues. Mostly simplistic, nothing too abstract but the delivery is downright seething. Keijo Niinimaa roars and screams his entire way through and there are some very inspired verses thrown in there.
Reviewer Tom Servo was correct when he said there's not a whole lot of variety on here. But there are parts in here that have a very real groove that show up just often enough to keep it from being monotonous. It's thanks to Hahto's drums, the band's pure fury and these short bursts of groove that this album strikes just the right nerves with me.
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