Rotgod chronology: 2017

I started 2017 with a fresh perspective and clear ideas about completing the songwriting process: so, I laid out another list of the songs I still wanted to write, and since then all the way to summer I worked on all those. The amount of tracks was so huge that the idea of including them all on a single release was unthinkable by that point: the new vision that had blossomed in my mind after the hard drive disaster was even bigger and more ambitious than the original one, requiring a mammoth-like double album.

Around that time I dove back into thrashcore/grindcore territories, writing songs such as "Idealism the fatal bug", "Teleological nonsense", "Social media misanthrope", "Legalized corruption", "Kill your hipster neighbor", "MeTaL iS dUmB (aNd I'm So SmArT)" (at the time with totally different lyrics and title), "Apology of the modern world" (a rather experimental track with lyrics attacking reactionary alt-right narrative), "This state sucks", "How to be deep (pt. 1)", "P.S.S.", "Fake news apocalypse" and "New age mumbo-jumbo".

That was also the time I wrote some songs that would later become very important for Rotgod, such as "The serpent's speech", "Organic machine", "After the impact (day 5)" and future hit "Sybaritic metal" - along with some lesser known tunes I still hold in very high regard such as "Betrayed generation" and, most importantly, the highly ambitious "Salomé" (thrown in last minute), narrating some spicy details about Friedrich Nietzsche's life over an extremely diversified musical backdrop. But most importantly, around that time, I finally found the inspiration to carry out an idea I had been developing in my mind for years: the "Jesus Christ pornostar" suite, which I wrote in four days only.

Songwriting wrapped up in august with the track "Jump into the void", and from that point on I immediately started setting things up for the recording process, rallying up all the young underground metal musicians I knew from Sicily.

I got in touch with Krost von Barbarie (already known at the time as leader of Eraser, Negative Path and Dukov), asking him to record some bass tracks for the more "punk-oriented" material. Even Nfernu was involved, recording the bass for a couple of Sodom covers I planned to include on the album. For the guitars, I ended up doing most of the work by myself.

Recordings officially started in october, in the private rehearsal room of a friend of mine (destined to become the first "Rotcave"), and it would take two more years to complete them...

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