Premiere: Disrotter Unleashes A Grinding Reckoning Without Escape On Perish Forth
What is true horror? The sheer cruelty of the world around us, or our unsettling ability to continue to live alongside it without interruption? It’s too hard to tell these days. Sure, we pause when we’re able, speak out, organize, donate, protest; anything to try and claim any agency we can muster in the moment. Yet for most of us, life keeps moving forward regardless.
Over time, these horrors stop feeling external. They settle in and linger. Not to fester or corrupt. No, much worse. They become familiar. They live with us, drawing from both our fatigue and attention, until the distinction between witness and participant disappears. Without meaning to, we become part of the terror ourselves, unwitting means to an end for the ongoing terror.
Grinding death metal band Disrotter is acutely aware of this existence. In 2024, they confronted the foreboding dread of it all on their blistering EP Restless Death. Now, in 2026, they return with another pummeling reckoning: Perish Forth, an intense six-track record due out Friday, January 23rd on Noxious Ruin. Across each track full of alarm and dismay, the record presents an unflinching look at the repulsions humanity has unleashed, whether consciously designed or born from our own corrupted desires/
Today, The Auricular is proud to premiere the album a day ahead of its official release, offering an exclusive stream below alongside a deeper glimpse into the void it unwillingly inhabits and shockingly thrives within.
Musically, the record is as brutal and visceral as you would come to expect when reading the list of bands Disrotter members have been in: Iron Reagan, Murdersome, Cannabis Corpse, Morbikon, Hellion Child, NECOV, Appalling, Colossal Wreck, countless more. Joe Adams (bass, vocals), Adam Guilliams (guitar), Ramzi Aboulhosn (guitar), and Garrett Gulliams (drums) are precision-grade with their sonic turbulence, crafting a sound tailor-made not only to satisfy devotees of genre titans like Napalm Death and Terrorizer, but also to pull in listeners who crave deliberate extremity.
That intentional approach lends itself to some particular inspired moments on the record. “Putrid Fate” feels palpably familiar from the outset, a sentiment only heightened as depraved guitar harmonics give way to a madcap solo. In the song’s outro, organ tones and anguished wails reveal the song’s true function: a funeral procession that drags forward with grim inevitability, mourning something already lost while refusing to let the listener look away.
Likewise, “Disfigure” stands out as a striking entry on the record, a violent slashing spree that’s propelled by an adrenaline-chasing rhythm. The pace fuels the lyrical assaults, allowing lines like “Loathing nature\ Crushing through” to cut through the chaos with chilling impact. This razor-sharp punctuation turns frenzy into calculated carnage, just like what surrounds us.
In the middle of the record, Disrotter takes a remarkable detour with “Second Sight Seance,” an instrumental marvel written and produced by Matt Harvey, the visionary behind the famed deathgrind outfit Exhumed. The track is a curious, eerie composition, unfolding like a twisted march into oblivion that reinforces the record’s overarching sense of dread. Above all of the technical ferocity of the record, it’s the unsettling atmosphere of this hymn that lingers after the record concludes, rising above the bedlam to bring into focus the album’s central theme of inescapable horror.
Harvey isn’t the only guest shaping the album’s dark landscape. Occultist frontwoman Kerry Zylstra appears on “Conjuring Entities” while Blazing Tomb frontman Ethan Thomas pops up on “Putrid Fate,” their contributions amplifying the musical menace of the record. Their inclusion of all three gives the album more ceremonial weight, harkening back to the procession motif looming throughout, a deliberate descent into oblivion that, as the record bluntly asserts, we all sense… whether or not we’re ready to make peace with it.
As is common in death metal and grindcore, Disrotter draws from the realm of eldritch horror, invoking rituals and conjurings in lyrics and brandishing distressing artwork that feels torn from a modern grimoire. Yet, like its 2024 predecessor, Perish Forth excels by anchoring those abstractions in the world around us. “Nothing can settle this unforgiving tension,” Adams roars on the opening track, a line that lands as prophecy amid our current state of escalation. Later, on “Den Of Wretches,” his warning that “Generations become doomed\ To feel pain” condenses decades of scholarly alarm into a single, devastating clamor.
While Lovecraft’s mythology thrives on fear of the unknown, Disrotter presents a more compelling argument that the deepest panic resides in recognition. Nothing lives in the shadows on this record. It’s all fully illuminated, embedded into daily life. The ever-present threat of cataclysm from political posturing. The molecular corruption we face due to microplastics. Perish Forth homes in on the most terrifying truths, whether monumental or minute, holding them up so that we must confront them, no matter if like it or not.
Perhaps that’s why the idea of life exists in such a fated state on this record. “Putrid predetermined fate” as the lyrics put it. To thrive, to simply exist; these are not options available to us anymore. By our own hands, demise is our only solution. Indeed, then… Perish Forth.
Perish Forth is set for release on Friday, January 23rd via Noxious Ruin. On Thursday, January 22nd, Disrotter’s album release show takes place at Bandito’s with performances from Prisoner, Anti-Sapien, and Paradiso, presented by Rival Booking. To keep up-to-date on all things Disrotter, make sure to follow them on social media.
