Gorerotted have reformed and booked five festivals, twelve years after the band they had turned into, The Rotted, stopped.
It started with Damnation Festival, which they played this year after having been on the bill of its first edition twenty one years ago. "For years when asked by various promoters and fans if we would reform, we went from saying no chance to thanks, but highly unlikely to go on then," the band said. "From the Damnation announcement came more and more offers."
Fluffy, Goreskin and Junky Jon are back, the three who played on all three albums, with Reverend Trudgill on bass. He was in The Rotted and before that was on the road with the band anyway, driving and selling merchandise. "It is highly likely if he had said no when we asked him that we would not have come back at all," the band said.
The dates are Eindhoven Metal Meeting on 12 December, Heidelberg Deathfest on 19 and 20 March, Monsters Of Death in Portugal on 22 May, Maryland Deathfest from 28 to 30 May and Obscene Extreme from 7 to 11 July. The sets come from Mutilated In Minutes and Only Tools and Corpses, both of which have been reissued this year, the first on vinyl by Hammerheart and the other two on CD by Junky Jon's own label.