Rat Babies

Rat Babies are a darkly-psychedelic, bass-heavy, mouth-foaming, gutteral-screaming, foamy-slobber-spitting, sweat-stained, two piece drum-n-bass, swamp-metal band out of the little known heavy scene of Athens GA. Rat Babies have been around since early 2005 playing shows everywhere… in and outside of Athens GA.

“Rat Babies share more than just an Athens, Ga., hometown with Harvey Milk; they find common ground in the slow and low. Rat Babies’ muck-tunneling sludge metal is cut with blues-guitar melodies like Harvey Milk but charged with charred-sounding amp fuzz like Weedeater.” Bryan Reed (Independent Weekly)

“Heavy bass-driven get the hell out of the way or die rock…” – Anthony B. Harris (Macon Scene)

“Long-running Athens band Rat Babies… has changed its sound over the years from merely heavy and weird to thunderously noisy, sludgy and horrifyingly perched at the crossroads of provocative and insane” – Gordon Lamb (Flagpole Magazine)

“Rat Babies is sludgy bayou animosity in the vein of Melvins with a Halloween Town, stumbling from the graveyard with an armload of shovels, feel. The rhythm is slow and the lyrics are dark and repetitive battles with depression and substance addiction– driven home with a plodding and brutal momentum and a bass distorted to Jackson Pollock fog. Think of Atrayu pulling futilely at the reins of Artax as he sinks ever lower into a Swamp Of Sadness where lilly pads sprout hypodermic needles and the sun falls brown through soot stained clouds. A personal apocalypse with every track.” – David (The Athens Secret Admirer)

Website: www.ratbabies.org/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ratbabies
Reverbnation: www.reverbnation.com/ratbabies
Booking: booking at muxproductions dot com