Gat-Rot is a 10-year institution of brutality and rabble rousing straight out of the Arizona wasteland, where urban angst is the new desert chic, only no one’s getting cactus tattoos, just some dirty shoes. They’ve got a sound that falls somewhere in the angry spectrum between Slayer and Agnostic Front, and the two inciters up front bark out songs about truth, justice, and revolution like apocalyptic drill sergeants. This is the kind of metal-tinged scream-core you’re hearing everywhere these days, and my guess is Gat-Rot would be fat off the land by now if they had stupid hair cuts and sang about their broken hearts. But no, they just keep on pushing social consciousness through the back of your skull, kind of like Hatebreed did a few years back, and while it’s tough to sell an agenda in this unsteady climate, there’s something to be said for trying to bite the hand that feeds you.
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-Jeff Warren