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01 - Mobile Atlantic Airflow
02 - The Fly
03 - Crusade Of The Black Knight

Rotting Tramp, a band mostly scattered across rural Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Half of the Tramp used to be in Evesham's TDM (an ancroynm for The Drug Monkeys), a thrillingly shambolic hardcore punk band I saw at least a dozen times over the summer of 2003 and never got bored of, once.TDM where very much of the shouty school of four chord punk, whereas Rotting Tramp took on board a whole slew of metal influences, making the sound darker , more brutal, annihilating all traces of decipherable vocals. At this point in the colummn, I can sense some readers losing interest. "Isn't metal just an excuse for unlistenable music that exists so moody teenagers can annoy their parents?" I can hear you say. Well whether or not this is true(and many would argue the contrary), Rotting Tramp still deserve your attention. I don't own a single CD that could be described as "metal", but I still find the Tramp's music utterly compelling, partly because it truly sounds like music to raise the dead to (so many so-called "heavy" bands sound like they're posing -"Look Mom, we are really dark and nasty and evil, honest"). Riffs too brutal to be called "punk", too raw to be called "metal", pounding drums, a wall of exquistely tailored noise - the soundtrack to the most hideous serial killer movie you can possibly imagine.

Their debut full length CD comes out soon - the charmingly entitled "The Plague Of Man Ends Here", featuring such whimisical ditties as "Frozen Armies Of The East", "Rott....Dead...Corpses" and "Passages Of Goolah". That last one is apparently something to do with that infamous book of occult lore, the Necronomicon.

Gammon (the singer) assures me that each track has lyrics with a corresponding mythology, even though all but the most dilligent listener will hear nothing but a series of well timed screams, growls and yells. However, the best way to experience the Tramp is live - their frontline of a waif like emo kid and a scruffy dreadlocked hippy going mental coupled with a hilariously corpse like drummer and obligatory bassist-in-a-baseball-cap, strangely compliment the music.

Image wise, they have that naturally cartoony look about them which so many bands seem to lack. Last time I saw them play I woke up the next morning with a painfully sore neck from headbanging (yeah that's right- not moshing, but headbanging) and barely any voice left from screaming along to every last "Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh". If this lot don't achieve widespread Napalm Death style underground acclaim then I might just raise some undead zombie armies and go on the rampage, killing all that block my path,so you better check em out at www.rottingtramp.cjb.net

Coming soon on the enigma files-more amazing bands that the mainstream music scene is too retarded to have even acknowledged yet,more stories of true renegades, and more fuel for the ever hungry fire of revolution................................

From Jon's Enigma Files
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