Rectoplasm are a 4 piece BDM/Death Metal act hailing from South Carolina. As such a young group (High School), this band sounds way ahead of its time.
Thank you to Racoon (Vocalist) for answering a few quick questions!!
Can you tell us how the band started, how long you’ve been a band, and how old you guys are?
So this band started as mainly just a high school project thing. Me, the vocalist, and Wyatt, our guitarist, have been trying to make music together for probably around 3 years before this, but at the time his interests were too proggy for me, and my interests were too punk for him, eventually though I discovered Peeling Flesh, showed it to him, and the slam genre really just clicked for both of us. We’ve been a band technically since last August when we released the EP, but really that was a way of trying to put our music out there so that we could get enough interest to find other band members, so I would say we’ve officially been a band since last October when we played our first show with a full lineup. I, Raccoon, am 17 right now, Wyatt is 18, Grey our bassist is 23, and Tim our drummer is 21.
Your Self titled ep was a promising slab of raw BDM. liquifying picks up where you guys left off with the song writing, but has a whole different feel sonically. What was the recording process like and what can you say about the mixing/mastering of the ep?
Since we had more people this time to contribute their thoughts to the songs, and also since we were now a bit more versed in songwriting, I feel like all off our influences in the band came through really well, with just super old school brutal death riffs, going into the more modern hardcore/slam crossover stuff. The recording process was a huge learning curve for us, we had never worked with a set deadline for recording before so honestly it was kind of stressful, but luckily all turned out well. We were so so fortunate to have a friend, Matt Carrano, let us borrow his entire drum mic setup and just give us much needed help along the way. For the mixing and mastering, we got Ethan O’Brien (@tobaccobowl on instagram) who got reccomended to us by Boltcutter, he’s made our new songs sound so tight and bass heavy, what more could you want in a mix?
Jon zig is fire!! How did that connection come about? And who did the recto logo???
Honestly the connection with Jon Zig was just purely through emailing him as a stranger haha! He was super willing to work with us and was accommodating to our budget, the album cover is not a full on commission but it’s insane how spot on it fits with our image and sound, super awesome guy. I did the logo actually! Just on procreate trying to make the most gooey unintelligible logo ever.
Who are some of your biggest influences?
Definitely Devourment, Cephalotripsy, Peeling Flesh, Cerebral Incubation, Corpse Pile, Snuffed on Sight, and Analepsy Any other soda city bands we should be on the look out for???
Yes! This first one is from Myrtle Beach not Cola but still shoutout Grimjaw, shoutout to Eighth House, Scrlett, Severed by Dawn, Fleshgate
Could you pick three albums, any genre, that you can’t live without?
Rei Momo by David Byrne, Effigy of the Forgotten by Suffocation, and God’s Country by Chat Pile
Thank you Racoon for taking the time!!
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Rectoplasm's second EP, “Liquifying Brutality” will be releasing 02/24/24 on ALL PLATFORMS!
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