The fast and nasty Oakland hardcore band Cell Rot put out an album called Parasite last year, the first half of a two-part project recorded with the iconic punk and metal producer Jack Shirley. Soon they'll drop the second half, Paradise. On opening track and lead single "Paradise/Parasite II," they hammer home the resemblance between those two words and the relationship between the concepts. "Paradise! Searchin' for your paradise!" growls vocalist Kyle. "Parasite! You're feedin' like a parasite!"
A statement on Bandcamp further illuminates what they're getting at:
Parasite is the first half of a longer project about consumption and decay. Parasites thrive in excess, searching for a paradise to consume. The luxuries of modern man have left the world depleted and inching closer to uninhabitable everyday. A world where the machines we produced have consumed the resources we need while we consume the world of the machines. The only thing that exists now is the parasite, who’s only purpose is to consume, leaving nothing while it waits for nothing to come.
Listen below.
TRACKLIST:
01 "Paradise/Parasite II"
02 "User"
03 "Over Soon"
04 "Feed"
05 "Nothing I"
06 "T.B.S."
07 "Cosmic Vertigo"
08 "Pigs"
09 "Looking For Trouble"
10 "Sell Rot"
11 "Nothing II"
12 "Consumed"
Paradise is out 9/25 on Convulse. Pre-order it here.
