The debut album by British black/sludge metal band Believe In Nothing album ‘Rot‘, is scheduled for release on October 31st via Church Road Records. Just like a train wreck unfolding before your very eyes, you won’t be able to tear yourself away from the awful sites and sounds in front of you.
To mark the announcement of their debut LP, the band have released the brand new single ‘Gut‘ as well as announcing their first headline tour.
“This song is about cutting your guts out and giving them to your work coach after another heartless and mechanical sanction by the state. What the extremes of desperation and humiliation can do to people” – Caine Hemmingway (vocals/noise)
Headline tour dates
27.11 London @ The Black Heart
28.11 Eastbourne @ The Pier
29.11 Bournemouth @ The Four Horsemen
30.11 Tunbridge Wells @ The Sussex Arms
3.12 Bristol @ The Exchange Basement
4.12 Nottingham @ The Chapel
5.12 Newcastle @ Lubber Fiend
6.12 Edinburgh @ Legends
7.12 Glasgow @ The Hug and Pint
9.12 York @ Fulford Arms
10.12 Norwich @ Holloway
12.12 Hastings @ The Pig
13.12 Worthing @ The Charles Dickens
15.12 Brighton @ Green Door Store
Over the past year, Believe In Nothing has become a formidable force in the UK underground. Stunning audiences into shocked silence, they have worked themselves tirelessly on the touring circuit, and they’re only just getting started. 2025 has seen them release some of the tracks from ‘Rot’ as standalone singles. Almost like sending body parts in the mail, they’ve slowly been revealing the horror their debut LP has to offer.
Believe In Nothing is hands on, visceral and quite frankly disturbing.
Be it their live performances where tension in the room is palpable, their blood, sweat and tears approach to creating art, or the fact their frontman rots pigs hearts in a box to convey their view of the dystopian world we live in, there is something about Believe In Nothing that will make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end.
Formed in Eastbourne in 2023, the band brings together Caine Hemmingway (vocals/noise), Lawrence Rodriguez (guitar), Steve Collier (guitar), and Jasper Lyons (drums). With a history of playing in various heavy South Coast bands and having a dedicated DIY ethos, the members hit the ground running, sidestepping the usual growing pains of a new project and quickly locking into a vision of crushing, apocalyptic sonic ritual.
An unofficial live debut came in early 2024: An unplanned set at The Eagle pub in Eastbourne after another band went AWOL. With no songs written, they played anyway, improvising a fifteen minute barrage of semi-controlled noise guided only by a shared sense of timing and a vision for summoning the right kind of apocalyptic genie. The band saw it as a proof of concept – a raw, spontaneous performance that vindicated their cerebral approach to heavy music and hellish worldbuilding.
After a slight line-up reshuffle which saw Jasper switch from bass to drums and the addition of guitarist Lawrence, they really clicked in the practice room, soon returning to The Eagle in May 2024 for a more formal debut gig alongside fellow Eastbourne crushers Black Groove and out-of-towners Black Shape. Still staring into the abyss, but now armed with carved-out structures and a sharpened identity. Those present described Believe in Nothing’s set as a detonation – as if something cataclysmic had been unleashed that couldn’t be sealed back into any kind of box.
Believe In Nothing have carved out a relentless live presence across the UK, hitting their Eastbourne hometown as well as Brighton and London multiple times, and making appearances in Ashford, Hastings, and beyond. Along the way, they’ve shared stages with a wide range of abrasive underground acts, including KULK, Mastiff, Mizmor, WODE, and many more. The remainder of 2025 sees them doubling down, with return appearances at key venues like The Black Heart in London (August and November) and The Green Door Store in Brighton (August and December), plus first-time shows in Tunbridge Wells, Windsor, York, Norwich, Reading, Worthing, and Nottingham. They’ll also head north to hit Newcastle, Edinburgh, and Glasgow before wrapping up the year with a homecoming blowout at the Green Door Store on December 15th, courtesy of Tinnitus Promotions.
Believe In Nothing’s creative ethos centres on sonic mass wielded with weaponised restraint to create jarring dynamic changes. Instead of endlessly piling on layers they embrace controlled tension: Barrages of enormous guitars and drums and noise interjected with sparse movements, cold atonal textures, and stifling silences that feel like all oxygen just got sucked out of the room. The results are dense, oppressive soundscapes not from brute force, but via slow, deliberate accumulation. It’s an immersive, unsettling experience shaped by subtraction rather than excess.
They began releasing music in mid-2024, dropping a demo track ‘Boiling Stone’ to Bandcamp in June 2024. This track was a minimal yet crushing tone-setting statement that established their turf on a scorched and abandoned earth. The band then planned to drip feed more demos to Bandcamp at tactical moments but after experiencing their live ferocity, Church Road Records picked them up at the end of 2024. The band then began unfolding a string of miserable end times inducing singles in 2025:
- “What Would You Do?” (March 25,?2025): a slow-motion, dread-laden descent into public humiliation and violence, described by the band as ‘a contemplation of public execution, humiliation and ultimately enjoying it’.
- “Complete Desolation” (April 30, ?2025): Embracing primal horror, an economy of pain, and a futuristic nightmare post-wars and collapse.
- “Fistful Of Worms” (May?21,?2025): their third single, channeling the tortured, paranoid mind of a murderer dragging a victim to be buried in the woods
- “Boiling Stone” (June 27, 2025): A reworked, even more sulphuric final version of the track the band had previously uploaded an early demo of.
Due for release on 31st October 2025 via Church Road Records, Rot is Believe In Nothing’s full-length debut and the culmination of their bleak creative vision. It chisels into granite their counter-intuitive approach to heaviness: equal parts chaos and control, volume and restraint, with layered textures collapsing under their own weight. Where earlier singles hinted at suffocating tension, Rot dives headlong into the abyss, using pressure, space, and psychological decay to conjure a world that feels like it’s been burning for years. The title track, “Rot”, already a staple in their live set, appears at the end of shows for a reason: a final, devastating statement that refuses to comfort. A cracked mirror held up to the slow, grinding death of the familiar which leaves no closure, only aftermath.
Tracklist:
1) Complete Desolation
2) What Would You Do?
3) Fist Full of Worms
4) Gut
5) Meth
6) Boiling Stone
7) Deserts Are Glass
8) The Children Are Cattle
9) Rot
Members:
Caine Hemmingway – Vocals and Noise
Jasper Lyons – Drums
Steve Collier – Guitar and Bass
Lawrence Rodriguez – Guitar
Guest appearances:
Jake Packham (Blackgroove) on ‘What Would You Do?’
Kyle MacLeod on ‘Boiling Stone’
Mrs Frighthouse on ‘Deserts Are Glass’
