Rotløs' Septic Planet is noise music done right

        Now time for a genre you probably didn't expect someone like me to be talking about: NOISE MUSIC! The honest truth is I got the idea to write this because it popped in my mind like "Oh I should write about Septic Planet, that album is awesome." It really is an awesome album.

        So back in like, 2014-2015, I was a hard brony (This album is not brony related btw, just made by a brony). IDK what happened, I was listening to The Living Tombstone's FNAF song and the next thing I knew I was watching a video of "Top 10 best MLP side characters" (TLT made brony stuff before doing game songs). Anyways, I was also really into this game Audiosurf 2, still am. If you have no idea what that is, it's basically turn-your-songs-into-an-epileptic-seizure simulator 2013. Basically, you choose literally any song you have in your library, and an advanced algorithm turns that song into a track. Your objective is to collect the most colored blocks to earn points, and dodge the grey blocks that prevent you from collecting said colored blocks. It's awesome, and with the right skin and mod combination, it gets crazy (my favorite skin has always been Rainbowdrive, it's a custom skin on the steam workshop).

        Now that you have the basis for what I'm going to talk about, let's actually get into this album, not before I say more origin story stuff. The brony-based music effort that I was getting super into at the time was Mumble Etc., owned by General Mumble and their girlfriend Koa. The funny thing about this label is only one person makes all the music on the label (at the time, it's Mumble and Koa now), but there are different artists, each having their own distinct feel. One did gabber, one did digicore / rock, one did metal, and one did the musical equivalent of crapposting (Two actually, one way more than the other). As you might've guess we will be focussing on one of those aliases; Rotløs (Rot-loss).

        Now that you have all three origin stories, let's mash them together into one big origin story. I was a big fan of Audiosurf player Morleux's channel (doesn't upload anymore). They made the best Audiosurf 2 videos, and they played a lot of Mumble's stuff. They were doing a video series surfing the 2015 Mumble Bundle, Mumble's end-of-year compilation. It was in part three of that video where I heard a song that I thought was crazy, and I loved it at first listen.

         It started off with these chiptune sounding drums playing a simple beat. After a couple of bars of that, this bass kicked in and these wild pitched up vocals started getting louder, along with this crazy white noise riser, eventually leading to the drop. With these heavily distorted hip-hop sounding breakbeats, the pitched up vocals at their loudest, the bass punching you in the face because it was so loud it overtook everything, and this wild tonal synth to lay out the menacing sounding melody. It hooked me in like some sort of wildly mechanical contraption meant to kill. I loved it.

        I looked down at the bottom of the screen and saw that this song was Purple Sick by Rotløs. I checked the other Mumble Bundle videos to see if they made anything else, and they did. They also made a track called Limegrene, that started with this weird start-stop progression and eventually lead into a hip-hop cacophony (Including but not limited to this lady yelling the F word mastered so loudly that I initially thought it was from Splatoon), which eventually lead to breakcore. I went and checked the Mumble Etc. Bandcamp page and what do you know? Rotløs made an entire album.

        Canonically, Rotløs is a gigantic, destructive, sentient tree. I feel like this image reflects the music they make because destructive is DEFINITELY one way to put it. The album was called Septic Planet, and included awesome loud songs like this. Purple Sick and Limegrene were included in the tracklist, but there were also songs I loved like Piranhas, a heavily clipped breaks tune, and my favorite from the album, Life After Blood, a more evil, noise-step take on Cher's Believe. Through and through, it just is an awesome album for people who are into heavily distorted stuff like this. I find it hard to find other albums that mimic this style (Some I think are cool, Dreamcrusher - Incinerator, Five Star Hotel - Gray Data). The two in the parenthesis were some of the only ones I could find that actually had beats. It's kinda hard to find loud stuff like this, let alone stuff that relied on breakbeats that wasn't breakcore. To that I call this album "Old reliable" when it comes to loud stuff like this. 

         TLDR; The brony in me found some cool loud stuff that I still listen to (Actually listening to the album right now) and y'all should too. As always, click the album art to RUN ITTTT! This album needs more appreciation.