Rats Will Feast - Hellhole LP

Rats Will Feast - Hellhole LP

With Hellhole, Finnish experimental hardcore band Rats Will Feast unleash their most destructive and fully realized work to date. Emerging from the underground scene of Jyväskylä, the band have spent years refining a sound that rejects convention and embraces chaos, atmosphere and emotional extremity in equal measure.

Building upon the foundations laid by Scarcity, Songs of a Racehorse and Malady, Hellhole represents the culmination of the band’s artistic evolution. The album fuses crushing hardcore aggression with noisy psychedelia, dissonant post-rock textures and suffocating low-end heaviness into a uniquely immersive sonic experience.

Musically, Hellhole thrives on unpredictability. Violent rhythmic shifts, battering drums, jagged guitar work and tortured vocals create an overwhelming sense of tension and instability. The album constantly moves between chaos and atmosphere, seamlessly blending crushing heaviness with moments of eerie calm and hypnotic repetition.

The guitar work swings between razor-sharp dissonance and haunting melodic passages, while the dense bass frequencies and punishing percussion create a physically intense listening experience. Rats Will Feast craft songs that feel simultaneously calculated and completely unhinged.

Lyrically, the album explores alienation, emotional collapse and the artificial nature of the modern world. The bleak themes are mirrored perfectly by the record’s suffocating atmosphere and twisted structures, making Hellhole feel less like a traditional hardcore album and more like a descent into psychological ruin.

Balancing experimental ambition with raw underground aggression, Rats Will Feast continue pushing hardcore into darker and more extreme territory. Hellhole is essential listening for fans of chaotic hardcore, noise rock and emotionally devastating heavy music.

Why You’ll Love This Album

• Chaotic hardcore mixed with noisy psychedelia

• Experimental song structures and emotional intensity

• Dark post-rock atmosphere blended with hardcore aggression

Sound & Aesthetics Highlights

Sound & Production

• Dense and punishing hardcore production

• Heavy low-end with abrasive noise textures

• Raw yet atmospheric sonic depth

Musical Characteristics

• Chaotic hardcore mixed with post-rock and sludge influences

• Dissonant riffs, crushing breakdowns and noisy experimentation

• Constant shifts between violence and atmosphere

Atmosphere & Mood

• Bleak, oppressive and emotionally devastating

• Hallucinatory and psychologically intense

• Chaotic yet deeply immersive

Visual & Physical Aesthetic

• Underground hardcore aesthetic

• Dark and minimalist presentation

• Perfect for collectors of experimental heavy music

For Fans Of

• Converge

• Botch

• Neurosis

• Chat Pile

• Unsane

Product Details

• Artist: Rats Will Feast

• Title: Hellhole

• Format: Vinyl LP (2024)

• Genre: Chaotic Hardcore, Experimental Hardcore, Noise Rock

• Label: TIME TO KILL RECORDS

Tracklist

1 PENETRATION

2 NONE FATED

3 DOG TECHNOLOGY

4 HELLHOLE

5 LUKEWARM FUTURES

6 GOODBYE JOHN WAYNE

7 TOURMALINE

8 REPLACEMENT

Manufacturer information

375 Media GmbH
Schlachthofstraße 36A
21079 Hamburg
Germany

https://375media.com