Bottomless Pit album cover

Bottomless Pit

By Death Grips

Released
May 6, 2016

Genres

  • experimental hip hop
  • industrial hip hop
  • noise rap

The Story

Released on May 6, 2016, Bottomless Pit continued Death Grips’ confrontational and experimental approach while presenting one of their most concise and direct records. After the fragmented and dual-structured The Powers That B, the group returned with a tighter collection of tracks that emphasized immediacy, repetition, and aggressive energy. MC Ride, Zach Hill, and Andy Morin focused on short, high-impact compositions built around dense percussion, distorted electronics, and abrupt structural shifts. The album opens with Giving Bad People Good Ideas, which combines rapid percussion with distorted guitar textures, immediately establishing intensity. Hot Head follows with fragmented vocal delivery and mechanical rhythm, while Spikes introduces a more groove-based structure within the chaotic framework. Warping and Eh continue the pattern of abrupt transitions and layered electronic noise, maintaining constant momentum. Bubbles Buried in This Jungle and Trash reinforce the aggressive pacing, blending shouted vocals with tightly compressed beats. Houdini and BB Poison highlight repetition and minimal melodic content, focusing instead on texture and rhythm. Three Bedrooms in a Good Neighborhood builds tension through looping structures, while Ring a Bell introduces a more defined groove within the album’s abrasive sound. 80808 continues the mechanical, distorted production, leading into the closing track Bottomless Pit. The final track slows the pacing slightly while maintaining density, providing a darker and more atmospheric conclusion. Bottomless Pit emphasizes brevity, intensity, and rhythmic focus. The album avoids extended compositions in favor of short, concentrated bursts of sound, each built around repetition and texture. By refining their approach into tighter structures without losing their abrasive identity, Death Grips delivered a record that captures their sound in a more immediate and focused form while maintaining their experimental edge.