“Strike first, strike hard, and let them pick up the pieces”

It’s hard to categorize Bas Rotten but it’s harder not to love them. Saying that they’re a consistent cohesive mix of old school death metal and grindcore with modern hardcore, while true, doesn’t fully capture the energy and originality.

Since 2016 Bas Rotten revels in the DIY scene through dozens of high-energy shows around Europe – wild performances with nothing held back. Furious bursts of d-beats, blast beats, massive riffs and an all-out delivery.

Surge is their first Album, to be thunderously released worldwide.

Combining the vibrance and catchiness of heavy thrash metal, the punch of hardcore and sheer density of grindcore, “Surge” pushes you into a steep fall only to propel you forward the next instant.

For fans of: Repulsion, All Pigs Must Die, Teething

"Shit, this record is going to hit you hard. I warn you!"

- GRINDER MAGAZINE

"The new Bas Rotten album Surge is a rocking sonic fist of fury! Yo Bas Rotten – you really pushed my wig back with this one!"

- Sean Reveron - CVLT NATION

"When you hear the term crossover you think of flip-up hats, cut off short donning heshers, and partying with brews by the pool, but Bas Rotten have concocted a crossover album unlike any other; mixing heavy hardcore punk sometimes edging between two-step and dbeat, with grindcore blasts. This album is a real gut punch and will send you reeling. Surge tips its hat at one minute to ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT and DRI, and to SPAZZ and NO COMMENT at the next. What a time to be alive!"

- WILL BUTLER (TO LIVE A LIE RECORDS)