Unfortunately we have to cancel our show this weekend with our friends Into the moat, due to some last minute family related issues that popped up.

here are some live videos of some new songs:

We got back from tour 2 weeks ago and had a blast. MDF was fucking great, as well as hanging out and playing some dates with all the Rotten Sound, Crowpath, and Misery Index dudes. Here are 2 youtube clips highlighting some of the "best and worst" moments of the tour for your viewing pleasure.

Part 1:



Part 2:



We would like to thank everyone that helped us out with setting up any of the shows, anyone that came out to hang, and anyone that let us crash on their floors. Fucking cheers!

With that being said, we would also like to announce that we have begun the writing process for our second full length album. It is untitled at the moment, but we have roughly 9 songs written (we played 3 of them live on the most recent tour). We are aiming to get it released early next year through Willowtip. More details to be announced in the next few months.

Other than that, we will most likely be kicking it back at home for the remainder of the year working hard on the new record. We would like to tour in either August,September, or October again... We are always open to hoping on a tour package as support. Feel free to drop us a line via email if you have anything to offer us : Maruta666@hotmail.com

We still have a few leftover tour t-shirts and trucker hats as well. Click HERE to check them out before they are gone. We ship orders out every Saturday morning.





Thanks for the support and grind on!

-Maruta aka Mitchell, Nick, Eduardo.

go to http://maruta.bigcartel.com to pick one up

Taken from Metal Review:

self-professed "abrasive grind/powerviolence" trio drops debut album, In Narcosis, and succeeds in both being abrasive and powerfully violent. What else is new. Maruta have left the kind of impression that only a band bearing the emblem of an angel with an arrow, can. In other words: Willowtip does it again.

Grindcore makes me wanna squeeze things really hard. Maruta makes me wanna squeeze things harder than that. In Narcosis is fifteen songs that would be hard to peg as "grind specific". From what I know of this convulsive genre, Narcosis meets the requirement of sounding unwaveringly obliterating, yet multi-emotional, and dare I say "musical". For one, the production here is crisp and punchy (it should also be mentioned early on, for the grind-bass enthusiasts, that these guys are intentionally short a bass player, but you wouldn't know it by their thick and sick downtuned display), and not to say that all grindcore recordings are for shit, but handfuls of them are; if I didn't know any better I would think it was scripture. The breathing room that Maruta's songwriting allows for, paired with said "recorded sound", shows a temperament that often brings to mind a latter-day Napalm Death's moments of clarity, or an Arts-degree-seeking Phobia, which can feel like deep exhales amidst the fallout. Still, there's an unhealthy supply of blasting and breakdowns (not nu-breakdowns, just moments of less snare drum) held tight in the arms of vocal throw-up, so rest assured, you'll punch mirrors trying to kick your own ass over this. But where you might stop and think, is aside the dissonant stiltwalk of "Demise of the Humanist", or underneath the icicles of "Rise of the Iron Moth" (strangely, not so far removed from the cold Jedi-blackened-death-metal tactics of something like say, The Amenta); it's all a fight to the finish, just one where you can actually hear them landing punches. Maruta can hang with these kinds of comparisons and then proceed to piss in the pool, simply because the musicianship is beyond capable, which is why they are successfully able to transcend their own definition.

Like any fine whine, this wouldn't be as effective if I didn't monitor its intake. I, personally, could not make this the soundtrack for every one of my waking moments. Make of that statement what you will, but it's paying a huge compliment to their ferocity.

Taken from Teufel's Tomb:

After several years of relative mediocrity the grindcore scene had become pretty dull with great releases being few and far between. In 2008 everything changed. I'm not sure why this year turned out to be such a great year for grind, but with stellar releases by CAPTAIN CLEANOFF, EXIT WOUNDS, KILL THE CLIENT and AGENDA OF SWINE 2008 has shaped up to be the best year in grindcore in well over a decade.

Another album can be added to that ever growing list of killer grindcore releases for 2008; IN NARCOSIS, the debut full length offering by Florida-based grinders MARUTA. With 15 tracks clocking in at just over 32 minutes, IN NARCOSIS delivers a high paced relentless blast, shriek and shred aural assault. The material has a surprisingly heavy and brutal edge to it, much heavier than most grindcore releases by Willowtip with a thick meaty guitar tone and powerful hi and low vocal approach.

The experience of listening to IN NARCOSIS can best be described as pressing your ear against a washing machine with an uneven load as the machine thrashes about while someone beats the side of it with sticks and screams into your other ear. It'll leave you crazed, screaming and disoriented.

The riffs are fast and aggressive, the blasting is powerful and the grunts, growls and shrieks are unreal. The material reminds me a bit of PUTRESCENCE with the deep growls, screams, dark muddy sound and hint of goregrind mixed with the relentless grinding of KILL THE CLIENT and high paced assault of EXIT WOUNDS. To be honest, I'd expect a release with this much intensity to heaviness to be released on No Escape Records, but kudos to Jason Tipton for getting these guys signed first.

IN NARCOSIS is a killer debut offering. The only complaint that can be made is that the production is pretty rough giving the material a sound more closely associated with goregrind than grindcore, but the material is fucking solid so any complaints about production will be coming from douche bags whose opinions are irrelevant anyway. MARUTA's IN NARCOSIS is yet another killer "must own" grindcore release for 2008!

Taken from Lords of metal:

People that went out of their heads with the last 'This Compilation Kills Fascists' album (compiled by Pig Destroyer's Scott Hull and released by Relapse) probably know them already; Maruta, the grinding warmachine from Florida, United States. The two compiled tracks went down pretty fucking well of course, but naturally a fifteen track full-length album is a whole different story…

'In Narcosis' is the debut record of this threesome, showing the listener a crossbreed between grindcore, math, and doom in the best tradition of Nasum, Leng Tch'e, and Rotten Sound. This means an irrecoverable attack on the eardrums from a drummer that holds the motto "hit everything all at once at the same time for at least two minutes every song" way up high, assisted by a maniacal schizophrenic vocalist and a thundering string beating. Listening to them full speed the whole time is not something I would recommend, and luckily Maruta is aware of this. In order to add variation they often exchange their speed-kick for a nicely fuming joint. Unfortunately they don't succeed entirely in creating a sound of their own, but a nice and greasy grindcore pastry this is without a second of doubt. 'In Narcosis' therefore gets a big fat stamp saying "for speedfreaks", and it will certainly reach them. Enjoy, but drive safely!

Taken from Grind and Punishment

Maruta
In Narcosis
Willowtip
Dr. Josef "Angel of Death" Mengele carved himself into the modern psyche with a few flicks of his cruel scalpel, but his Japanese counterpart, Dr. Shiro Ishii, conveniently seems to have avoided the same well deserved notoriety. As commander of the infamous Unit 731 in Manchuria, Ichii and his staff performed all manner of vile experimentation on Chinese peasants and Soviet P.O.W.'s – dehumanized as maruta ("logs of wood") – by their sadistic captors in their quest to perfect chemical and bacteriological weaponry.
In the interest of journalistic thoroughness, this weekend I subjected myself to back to back viewings of notorious 1988 Chinese exploitation film Men Behind the Sun and Andrey Iskanov's often tedious four and a half hour shockumentary Philosophy of a Knife, two of the few representations of Unit 731's savagery in popular culture. While neither strive toward academic levels of historicity, they bear graphic witness to World War II's second Holocaust.
More than just another monicker to shock and evince some notion of extremity, Maruta's potent admixture of offhand brutality and clearly thought out attack sonically channels the charnel atmosphere of one of the worst – and least discussed – atrocities of the 20th Century, painting a portrait of pain and casual sadism with a palette of curdled blood, purpled contusions and gangrenous yellow.
But it's not all blunt force trauma experiments. Maruta also know how to wield a scalpel.
After being clubbed over the head with a blunt instrument for three straight songs, "Demise of the Humanist" sees these grindcore Neanderthals whip out slide rules and begin lecturing on the finer points of trigonometry in a song laced with enough pinch harmonics and technical snazzy to light up fans of Lethargy and Creation is Crucifixion. It's those kinds of moments when tempos slow to let double bass work over take the incessant blast beatdowns and guitarist Eduardo Borja carves out enough space to prove he's more than just an adrenaline junky punk banger that Maruta truly come into their own as a grind force to be faced and feared. "Rise of the Iron Moth" sounds more like a swarm of Africanized titanium bees on a kamikaze run with your face.
Add in production values thick as a week old puddle of bodily fluids on a surgery floor, and Willowtip have a sure fire winner on their hands. And this is just Maruta's debut.

Taken from Metal Ireland

Willowtip really seem to have developed a knack for picking up on the better Grind bands out there and signing them. Last seen on the much lauded 'This Comp. Kills Facists" collection, the goods are delivered here in the form of U.S. three-piece Maruta's debut. The press release accompanying it is as refreshingly to-the-point as the music itself - "Maruta are 3 dudes from Miami who want to grind your fucking head in". With 'In Narcosis', they comprehensively succeed in doing so.

The band more than merit comparison with the heavyweights in the genre. 'Iconoclaust' kicks things off almost in mid blast, with the vocalist displaying a warped scream and deep growl that is smoothly alternated throughout the entire album. The beefy, guitar led assault is soon broken up by 'Demise of the Humanist', with a quick dive into slow, tortuous and sustained chords bringing about a different type of intensity. Add to this a liberal dash of power-violence brand simplicity, such as on 'The Great Delusion', and you have a surefire recipe for inspiring granny-punching aggression in the listener.

Brevity often equates with impact in terms of good Grind, and the band know it. The entire album just about reaches the half hour mark, with plenty of clever variations on the tried and trusted formula making sure that a constantly shifting mode of attack is achieved. The fact that the band only pack a single guitarist and no bassist comes through in a somewhat higher ended production, but this itself adds to the overall aggressive vibe of the release.

The band also win points by avoiding the over use of samples (perennially annoying when they break things up too much), limiting themselves to the perfectly placed use of Peter Finch's 'Mad as Hell' speech from the movie Network. Overall, the album is a fine testament to the utter aggression that three people, a guitar and a drumkit can convey. Fans of the likes of Phobia, Kill the Client, Magrudergrind et al, take note.

Taken from Unbound Zine:

Grindcore has definitely changed a lot over the years. The manic energy that was present during the formation of the genre is still there but the overall feel of the genre and the riffing has certainly changed. Case in point, Maruta definitely is a grindcore band but they could definitely be considered a modern grindcore band.

The riffing style is technical and covers a lot of ground with the drums never falling behind. Dissonance is used to awesome effect throughout the album. Demise of the Humanist is a perfect example of this and actual a shining example of the fact that the band really isn't just another grindcore band. Disassociate meets Assuck somewhat describes what the band is doing but each song brings new surprises. The fact that I can say a grindcore album is varied doesn't happen very often. I love grindcore but it certainly has a tendency to be one dimensional. That is definitely not the case with Maruta.

As a huge fan of grindcore I can comfortably say that if you like the genre, this album definitely hits the mark. This is an explosive and surprisingly diverse album that fans of everything from Nasum to Agoraphobic Nosebleed should have very little trouble getting into.

Taken from Scratch the Surface Zine:

"the best, noisesit, most discordant grindcore album of the year." -Holy Roar

"[T]heir all-out spin cycle segment compete with slower, sludgier trawls for a superb slab of rage peppered with moments of technical dynamism" -Kerrang Magazine

check it out here: Maruta feature Dethroned Emperor # 16 at Sonic Frontiers


Thanks a ton to Josh Haun. Grind on!

Limited time offer of only one week, so act quick if you want in on this killer deal.

MARUTA WEBSTORE

out on willowtip/ candlelight

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go to MARUTA WEBSTORE for the killer deal. This is the cheapest you will ever find these cds!

Greetings from the Maruta camp! I realize we have been back at home for about a month already....but I would like to start off by sending a warm and very humble fucking "Thank you!!" to everyone that came out to a show, who hung out, or gave us a piece of your floor to sleep on last August/ September. We hit the road for two whole months in the U.S. and played a total of 51 shows.

We had a blast on the "Willowtip : War on Everything tour", and would also like to thank all the bands that participated i.e. Malignancy, Phobia, Kill the client, Illogicist, Impaled... fucking hails you scumfucks!!

The "IN NARCOSIS" album is finally in stores! You Can either order it directly through:

Willowtip in the U.S. ( www.willowtip.com)

Candlelight in Europe (http://www.candlelightrecords.co.uk)

or you can walk your ass over to your nearest record store and demand that shit!!!

For those who demand vinyl, we are working on getting that squared away. Any label interested in the possibility of licensing it to put it out should contact us here: Maruta666@hotmail.com

We finished up shooting a DIY music video for the track "The great delusion" ourselves with the help of our friend Kris Pabon.

You can go ahead and check that out by clicking on the following link here: The great Delusion.

Just make sure to watch the video in HIGH QUALITY, otherwise its going to look like total garbage. I tried uploading that damn fucking vid like 4 times in different formats, and for some odd reason it keeps comming out like that. Thanks Youtube!

For those who wanted the "This comp kills fascists vol 1" release on vinyl, you can now grab yourself a nice copy of the double LP version Deepsix records put out : www.deepsixrecords.com

We are playing the almighty Maryland Deathfest 7 next year as well, and will be looking to hit the road again in may and the following months. Any bands with serious inquiries who want us to support them, feel free to hit us up via email : Maruta666@hotmail.com

Last but not least I would like to say that this october marked our 3 years as a band together!

Grind on motherfuckers
-Mitchell, Nick, Eduardo

check out our merch store.

for some neat leftover tour shirts. The willowtip clothing section on their website has other designs as well.

go to : http://Maruta.bigcartel.com to pick one up! Both shirts have additional artwork on the back. We have very limited quantities and sizes, so act quick!

also: www.willowtip.com has various other neat leftover tour shirts. Go check the clothing section.