Italy's Red Rot is the extreme metal band of Luciano Lorusso George and Davide Tiso, formerly of Ephel Duath, and their debut 'Mal De Vivre', is a relentless opus of technical beauty and bludgeoning grace. The seventeen songs are musically intense, raw and passionate, but with a multi-faceted elegance that envisages Red Rot appealing to fans of radical and heavy music right across the spectrum. Engorged with elements of death metal, doom and thrash: 'Mal De Vivre' sounds like a twisted blend of the roots of early Morbid Angel and Paradise Lost with the experimental discord of Voivod and the hardcore clash and klang of bands like Converge.