Botch on DeBaser: mathcore pioneers reviewed

Botch

Musical Group

Forfans of mathcore/metalcore, adventurous heavy-music listeners, and debaser readers into complex, intense sounds.
3 Reviews 2 Definitions 3 Charts

The Profile

Botch are an American mathcore/metalcore band from Tacoma, Washington. Known for complex rhythms, dissonant riffs, and intense vocals, they released two landmark albums and a final EP, influencing a generation of heavy music.

Released on Hydra Head Records; vocalist Dave Verellen is cited in the reviews. The EP “An Anthology of Dead Ends” features track titles with “n” replaced by “m.” The band reunited for shows in 2022–2024.

Three DeBaser reviews celebrate Botch’s explosive mix of intelligence and brutality. American Nervoso is praised as accessible mathcore, We Are the Romans as a mastodonic, coherent leap into mathcore, and An Anthology of Dead Ends as a fierce, thoughtful swan song. Expect dissonant riffs, polyrhythms, and abrasive vocals with lyrical bite.

Notable Quotes

❝ Come on, we’re talking about Botch: pioneers of a genre that sits at the intersection of brutality and intelligence, if you sell it this way I can guarantee you’ll earn the respect of all these lovely pogo enthusiasts without knee pads but with mouthguards.

❝ And so the sound of Botch is mastodonic, booming yet also in a certain sense chaotic and fractal, clear and schematic: a sound that fits into an evolved metalcore that is now free of the prejudices that have always bogged it down, ready to evolve into what is often called mathcore today.