Like a dormant species emerging from the permafrost, CORRODER are a completely different breed of what we see and hear today. In the modern age where hardcore is basically taking two directions – either full chugga metal, or the complete other way, catchy 80’s style punk\/hc – CORRODER are aiming back to the 90’s where metallic hardcore was first shaped by RORSCHACH and later dominated by the sound of two labels in the US and Europe: KING OF THE MONSTERS and PER KORO, respectively. <\/p>\n
These labels chewed out some of the nastiest dissonant, grinding, heavy hardcore that the world had to offer, many times bordering and overlapping into death\/grind. In the US the sound was shaped and moulded by UNRUH, SUICIDE NATION – perhaps even ASSUCK – and on the other hand our old continent offered names such as ACME, SYSTRAL, M\u00d6RSER, KNUT.. With those names dropped, that should already give you a pretty good idea what CORRODER is all about. Chewing, grinding, gnawing abrasive riffs with full-on heavy sludgy breakdowns, on the same time avoiding the typical chugga riff collage. <\/p>\n
After their latest release “Doctrine\/Instinct” – an insane package of a double 7″ released simultaneously as two individual records – the band took the entire covid era to write their debut album “Thrive” with the exception of few live performances in Finland. The result offers 12 tracks over a span of 26 minutes, keeping the attention on their aggression and intensity. Heavy hardcore with a good measure of grind and sludge – abrasive, dissonant and aggressive. <\/p>\n
“The sort of unspoken consensus is that if a riff is not heavy or somehow nasty sounding, it’s not us. Sometimes that ethos generates a deathmetal influenced song and sometimes more of a pure hardcore song and a lot of times it’s something in between a bunch of genres we enjoy. But our heart is always hardcore.” <\/p>\n
200 copies on jet black vinyl. Co-release with Minor Label (Germany), Tuhkaa ja Paskaa Esitt\u00e4\u00e4 (Finland) and Several Casualties Productions (Finland).<\/p>\n
FFO: RORSCHACH, CONVERGE, UNRUH, ACME, SYSTRAL, M\u00d6RSER<\/p>\n