JUNGLE ROT - War Zone (RED)

Re-issue of US Death Metal band, Jungle Rot's 2006 release 'Warzone' marking the first album to feature the now current Jungle Rot core of Matrise, Genenz, and Bub on RED vinyl!

Jungle Rot formed in 1992 originally as a side project by Jim Harte and Joe Thomas, members of the Illinois Thrash Metal act, Prisoner.  They acquired Kenosha-based guitarist Dave Matrise (Num Skull, Nocturnal, Fatal Violence) in 1993 and in 1994 when Matrise took over the band got serious and started to take off.

Remember those early 90s American death metal bands - Obituary, Deicide, (etc.) that played a simplistic style of death metal that seemingly dropped off the face of the earth when Suffocation, Immolation, (etc.) style bands and Black Metal became popular?

Jungle Rot got signed during the midst of that hoopla, and they haven't changed a bit since they got signed; they remain firmly stuck in the early style of early American Death Metal that existed before the attempted intellectualization of extreme metal - the days when bands didn't attempt to sound intelligent by writing half-assed concept albums on ideas they spent a whole five minutes researching. The days when, you know, Latin phrases, obtuse lyrics and slapping random evil-soudning words together wasn't viewed as necessary.

"War Zone" stands as a firm reminder that those early bands had charm for a reason - their sound wasn't cluttered with intros, samples, and keyboards that did nothing to add to the music but gave a tweak to the bands image. No, instead of keyboards and horror movie samples we have a Death Metal album that is dominated by riffs that are a mixture between Obituary and Deicide's 1st and 2nd albums - groove laden with some rather simple, yet incredibly effective, melodies.

LIMITED edition RED VINYL - BACK ON BLACK 2023