The Noble Rot - Bonus Track Edition
Powerman 5000
The Noble Rot is the tenth studio album by Boston-born industrial metal act Powerman 5000, originally released on August 28, 2020 via Cleopatra Records. Led as always by vocalist Spider One — Michael Cummings, younger brother of Rob Zombie — the band at the time of recording comprised Spider One alongside guitarists Ty Oliver and Taylor Haycraft, bassist Murv3, and drummer DJ Rattan. The album's title borrows from the winemaking process of cultivating "noble rot" — grapes allowed to decay to just the right degree to produce the sweetest wine — a metaphor that suits the record's ethos: deliberately lo-fi, short, and unpolished, leaning heavily into the electronic and gothic new wave side of the band's palette rather than its metal roots. Clocking in at around 30 minutes across ten tracks, the album draws on post-punk, industrial, EBM, and early '80s alternative influences — Rough Edge called it "simple but intense music, loud and dark with killer songwriting" — and features a darkwave cover of The Go-Go's 1981 hit "We Got the Beat" alongside original tracks with characteristically tongue-in-cheek titles like "Cannibal Killers That Kill Everyone" and "Strange People Doing Strange Things."
The Bonus Track Edition, released by Cleopatra Records in 2026, appends the original 10-track album with three additional tracks: a re-recording of the band's signature 1999 hit "When Worlds Collide" (which had originally appeared as a bonus track on early CD pressings of the standard edition), a remix of "Black Lipstick," and a remix of "When Worlds Collide" — both remixes crafted by German industrial legends Die Krupps, adding an extra layer of electro-industrial grit to two of the album's most prominent songs. The pairing with Die Krupps is a natural fit: the German band's mechanical, driving sound shares DNA with Powerman 5000's industrial leanings, and the remixes offer a heavier, more European industrial perspective on Spider One's reliably eccentric vision.
The Noble Rot - Bonus Track Edition
Powerman 5000
The Noble Rot is the tenth studio album by Boston-born industrial metal act Powerman 5000, originally released on August 28, 2020 via Cleopatra Records. Led as always by vocalist Spider One — Michael Cummings, younger brother of Rob Zombie — the band at the time of recording comprised Spider One alongside guitarists Ty Oliver and Taylor Haycraft, bassist Murv3, and drummer DJ Rattan. The album's title borrows from the winemaking process of cultivating "noble rot" — grapes allowed to decay to just the right degree to produce the sweetest wine — a metaphor that suits the record's ethos: deliberately lo-fi, short, and unpolished, leaning heavily into the electronic and gothic new wave side of the band's palette rather than its metal roots. Clocking in at around 30 minutes across ten tracks, the album draws on post-punk, industrial, EBM, and early '80s alternative influences — Rough Edge called it "simple but intense music, loud and dark with killer songwriting" — and features a darkwave cover of The Go-Go's 1981 hit "We Got the Beat" alongside original tracks with characteristically tongue-in-cheek titles like "Cannibal Killers That Kill Everyone" and "Strange People Doing Strange Things."
The Bonus Track Edition, released by Cleopatra Records in 2026, appends the original 10-track album with three additional tracks: a re-recording of the band's signature 1999 hit "When Worlds Collide" (which had originally appeared as a bonus track on early CD pressings of the standard edition), a remix of "Black Lipstick," and a remix of "When Worlds Collide" — both remixes crafted by German industrial legends Die Krupps, adding an extra layer of electro-industrial grit to two of the album's most prominent songs. The pairing with Die Krupps is a natural fit: the German band's mechanical, driving sound shares DNA with Powerman 5000's industrial leanings, and the remixes offer a heavier, more European industrial perspective on Spider One's reliably eccentric vision.