South Korean post-hardcore/alternative rock band Bursters has exploded onto the music scene like…yes, that chestburster from the classic sci-fi film Alien.
Bursters are not a K-Pop boy band, but the total opposite. They are part of the K-Rock movement (more specifically, emotional rock), but are more metal and hardcore in nature than most rock bands of the genre.
The five-piece have been a strong presence in South Korea since they formed in 2014 amid the K-Pop phenomenon. Bursters have been touring internationally with a vengeance, reaching the UK last July as part of their World Tour: K-Rock Revelation.
The critically acclaimed band have released two EPs and one full-length (2017’s Live In Hope), and their song/video “Lost Child” was a hit on YouTube.
Second album Once and for All unleashes on March 27th via Evermore Music.
Rebel Noise is super-stoked to host the premiere of the lyric video for the raging and relevant track “Smell the Rot” from the LP.
“Smell the Rot” is the second single being released from Once and for All, following up the lead single “Colors,” which premiered at Alternative Press.
Urgent symphonic strings and electronic grime kick off “Smell the Rot” before the song bursts out with jagged guitar stabs (from Junyong Ahn and Gyejin Lee), running bass line (courtesy of Hwanhee Jo), and punishing drum strikes (by Taehee Jo).
Lead screamer Daegun Roh unleashes his voice in an extremely pissed-off roar, sometimes modulating into a passionate cry on the catchy chorus sections. The post-hardcore/metal hybrid anthem builds up to a scorchingly fiery and fierce intensity, with potent sonics and emotions that are hard to shake off.
The astute and timely wake-up call and call-to-arms lyrics rip into social disconnect and selfish behavior, something that definitely needs to stop in this perilous day and age. Roh rages against ignorance, lies, and self-interest (basically everything the current US administration and certain other governments stand for!).
The lyrics of “Smell the Rot” are so powerful that they are reprinted in full below:
Can you smell the rot
In the air
Can you sense the ignorance
In your blood
We’re crushing the law of nature
Self-centered, stubbornly voiceless
We’re drying the fields of our children
Shortsighted, trading for convenience
Breathing off our greed
Contaminated
Beclouded by our means
Destroying it all
Nobody cares
Nobody cares
But we need to stop the rot
We need to stop the rot
Nobody cares
Nobody cares
But we need to stop the rot
We need to stop the rot
Fix it now
Get up
Get up
Smell the rot, smell the rot
In the air
We keep on neglecting the truth
Everything we stole, gotta pay the price
We’re taking without feeling any guilt
Devouring like filthy parasites
We don’t deserve to be here
Nobody cares
Nobody cares
But we need to stop the rot
We need to stop the rot
Nobody cares
Nobody cares
But we need to stop the rot
We need to stop the rot
Smell the rot
Smell the rot
Yeah
Bear in mind
The slowest decay
Finds its way
To the innocent
Bear in mind
The slowest decay
Finds its way
To the innocent
Oh, fuck the system
‘Cause they don’t care
Oh, fuck the system
‘Cause they don’t care
Smell the rot
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