Rot from Brazil has been one of the leading bands in the GrindCore scene in the last six- seven years. They have always been somewhere in the scene. With the new album "Sociopathic Behaviour" (out on Ecocentric Records); their music has now been made available for the masses with expensive CD players. We caught up with Alexandre for an update.



1. Please give us a Rot biography.

We started in 1990 trying to do something different from what we were doing so rot came along . We think our lyrics are really important because they are the way we think humanity is drowned in its hypocrisy . What we think it's 'wrong' we just say it and we don't care if it's offensive. We have influence on the 80's European HC and early grind bands.
Our line up after a lot of changes is :
marcelo-voice
mendigo-guitar
mane-drums
alexandre-bass-voice.

2. Please give us a list and presentation of your many '7/EP releases.

here you are:

almighty god
drowned in restrictions
split w/ MIND FART
split w/ PSYCHO
split w/ ENTRAILS MASSACRE
split w/ AGATHOCLES
fatality ? (live 92)
split w/ TWISTED TRUTH
split w/ NO PREJUDICE

coming soon :
split w/ 2 MINUTOS DE ODIO
we also have a split lp w/ INTESTINAL DISEASE , a split 10" w/ DEPRESSION and a full length cd/lp/tape Sociopathic Behaviour.

3. Your debut album "Cruel Face Of Life" was released through Morbid Records some years ago. Please tell us more about that release.

Well , it was released in 94 i think . it has 21 'new' songs and our 2 first 7" . 42 songs all !! I don't know how many copies Morbid did of it but it's been hard to find it !

4. Why did you end the co-operation with Morbid Records ?

We had offers of other labels to release our stuff and I think Morbid is not interested anymore. Maybe only distro.

5. How did you get in touch with Ecocentric Records ??

Marcelo has contact with matthias and we had a new material to release. We said to him we were looking for a label and he got interested. Also there's a u.s. (RHETORIC RECS.) version of it also on lp and a czech tape version limited to 500 on INSANE SOCIETY PROD.

6. Your album "Sociopathic Behaviour" CD was released earlier this year. Please tell us more about this album. For example the recording, the writing process and the featured tracks.

The album has 33 songs all unreleased before. We recorded and mixed it in 50 hours at a friend's 24 track studio (da tribo). We started making those songs one year and a half before we recorded them , it was a slow process.
We had lots of ideas for the lyrics and they were done in the end of the work . some titles : feating his death, what a joke, life is no so kind, unjustiable fruit, being different, strong asociality, downtrodden, nothing to hope, wonderful tomorrow, thank you anyway, dream after dream, common sense , from creation to collapse and so on.

7. Please tell us more about your lyrics.

We talked about religion stupidity and god's unexistense, our scene problems with all the truth kings that try to run our lives , also the society system that tell us what ,when and how to do things . Our view about the future and how we see life is with all mental control we have with the media and social values.

8. How would you compare your new album to your earlier releases and "Cruel Face Of Life" ?

It's a different line up. I think our ideas are stronger and our way of making things is easier now . I like all the stuff we released . I'm happy with the result we are getting now too !

9. Rot are from Brazil, a country not famous for it's Grind Core scene, to put it mildly. How would you compare yourself to other bands from Brazil ?

We don't compare , we do what we like the way we like and I hope the others do the same.

10. Are any members of Rot involved in other bands/projects ?

Yes . alexandre plays in Cruel Face, condutores do Odio and nyab and mane plays in Condutores Do Odio.

11. What are your plans for the coming months and year ?? Any tour plans ??

Yes , we're making new songs for some future releases and maybe next year we will try to make a Brazilian tour.

12. Anything you want to add to this interview ?

Thanks a lot to NFTIG web zine for the opportunity of this interview !

Anyone who wants to get in touch , please do it. All messages/letters will be answered . To contact us write to :

cx postal 12
centro
sto andre
sp 09001-970
Brasil

e-mail - buchodiscos@hotmail.com

Friendship is very important for us.

My English is not very good but I hope I understood everything and also my answers are understandable.

Don't worry; we understand what you say. In any case; music is an universal language, understood by anyone. Get the new Rot album and you will understand.