Cloud Rat is a "three-piece grindpunk ensemble from MI. Anti-oppression, anti-discrimination, pro-vegan." The Michigan, USA band says that they started in December 2009. Since that time they have made about a billion recordings, more or less. They have strong opinions about politics, grind and everything else and they can't stop writing songs about it. Excerpts of reviews at Metal Archives say things like the following: "The three piece, hailing from Michigan, USA not only play some of the most aggressive and violent grindcore out there, but they do so with a dark and harrowing sense of emotion, a real sincerity which is often missing from grindcore. It’s depressing and devastating in equal measure, and really needs to be heard to be believed. Singer Madison’s voice is simply insane. Her screams are absolutely harrowing, they’re some of the most emotionally powerful I’ve heard in extreme music. Aggressive to the maximum, and really sincere. With extremely moving lyrics concerning abuse, depression, drug abuse and neglect, it’s obvious from the sheer vividness of the lyrics and their emotional delivery that the band have really been through some bad experiences – nothing this dark would have arisen, without coming from real, horrible experiences, this is especially shown on the powerful “Mouse Trap”, and “Sinkhole” which might just be the best grindcore track since Napalm Death’s Scum. The music itself is grindcore with a lot of hardcore influence. Without a bassist, the guitarist Rorik Brooks plays through multiple amps, and as such they still have a really full and powerful sound, and he delivers an incredible performance."
The band has a bunch of free/name-your-price recordings at Bandcamp. In case you don't believe that they have millions of recordings, this is the discography from Metal Archives:
DISCOGRAPHY:
Cloud Rat Full-length 2010
Cloud Rat / Xtra Vomit Split 2010
Cloud Rat / The Oily Menace / Wolbachia Split 2011
Live at Vaggie Fest 6/12/11 Live album 2011
Fever Dreams Compilation 2011
Cloud Rat / Autarkeia Split 2011
Cloud Rat / Republic of Dreams Split 2012
Moksha Full-length 2013
Blind River Compilation 2014
Cloud Rat / Orgullo Primitivo Split 2014
Qliphoth Full-length 2015
Cloud Rat / Drugs of Faith Split 2015
www.cloudrat.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/cloudratgrind/
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