Gorebug

Matúš Orth, known as Gorebug, is a Slovak producer and DJ working across deathstep, drum and bass, gabber, industrial, new rave and speedcore. Public credits and his SoundCloud list his year of birth as 1991. He began producing around 2008, adopted the stage name Gorebug and started DJing around 2011. Key releases include the Skullcracker EP (2013) and The Test Subject LP (2021). He has released music on Section 8, Lethal Injection, Metafiziq, Mental Disorder, T3K, Triamer and Drumatch.

Gorebug’s entry into electronic music is documented through a clear timeline: production work from ~2008, then a shift to performing under the Gorebug name around 2011. His online credits (SoundCloud and other release listings) carry the 1991 birth year and trace his catalog through labels that specialise in heavier bass and hardcore-adjacent sounds.

Sonically, Gorebug works at the intersection of hard drum & bass, darkstep/crossbreed and heavier bass music forms such as deathstep and industrial. His tracks characteristically push low-end weight with heavily saturated bass layers. He commonly stacks detuned reese-style layers with sub-frequency sine/triangle fundamentals, then adds midrange distortion and multiband saturation to give basslines a grinding, industrial edge.

On rhythm and breakwork, Gorebug favours tight, edited breakbeats rather than long, loopy amen passages. Drum programming emphasises chopped and quantised snares, transient shaping on kicks, and aggressive transient compression to keep high-energy hits forward in the mix. Production techniques heard across his catalog include resampling chains, heavy use of saturation and bit-reduction for grit, and layered transient control to make kicks and snares cut through dense low-end. Atmospheric elements are metallic and abrasive rather than ambient: metallic percussion, factory-like noise beds and short, processed vocal snippets appear as texture rather than extended pads.

The Skullcracker EP (2013) marked Gorebug’s early label-facing work and presented his lean toward darkstep and crossbreed weight. The Test Subject LP (2021) expanded that template into a full-length format, showing longer arrangements and more developed industrial coloration while retaining the hard drum & bass backbone. Across both releases and his label appearances, the through-line is heavy low-end design, clipped break edits, and a preference for hard, mechanised timbres.

As a contributor to the scene, Gorebug’s verified activity is primarily production and record releases on the labels listed above. He also began performing as a DJ from around 2011, bringing his production-led material into sets. Outside of the Skullcracker EP and The Test Subject LP, his catalog and label credits on Section 8, Lethal Injection, Metafiziq, Mental Disorder, T3K, Triamer and Drumatch are the concrete markers of his output and reach within heavier D'n'B and adjacent communities.

Publicly documented statements about direct influences or detailed collaborations are limited. There are no widely published interviews or lists that name specific artists as Gorebug’s influences, so concrete influence attributions are not verifiable from available sources.

For now, the clearest reference points remain his timeline (producing from ~2008; DJing from ~2011), the Skullcracker EP (2013) and The Test Subject LP (2021), and his releases on Section 8, Lethal Injection, Metafiziq, Mental Disorder, T3K, Triamer and Drumatch.