Rootwater

Rootwater
During concert in Mega Club in Katowice.
Background information
Origin	Warsaw, Poland
Genres	Nu metal, thrash metal, metalcore
Years active	2002–2010
Labels	Fonografika, Mystic Production
Associated acts	Vesania, Vader
Website	rootwater.pl
Members	Maciej Taff Sebastian Zusin Filip "Heinrich" Hałucha Marcin "Valeo" Walenczykowski Grzegorz "Oleynik" Olejnik
Past members	Paweł "Paul" Jaroszewicz Tomasz "Yońca" Jońca Paweł Jurkowski Przemysław Bieliński Michał Truong Artur Rowiński

Rootwater was a Polish nu metal band, formed in Warsaw, Poland in 2002 by Sebastian Zusin, Tomasz "Yońca" Jońca and Paweł Jurkowski. Soon, Maciej Taff has joined the band as a vocalist. In their music there are many hardcore, trash, folk and punk, or even ambient influences clearly hearable. The name of the band comes from a Magic: The Gathering card captioned "Rootwater Commando". The band is famous for their psychedelic, technically perfect album covers. Many critics are comparing Rootwater's music to System of a Down's music, which is probably caused by a similar use of native "folkish" melodies by both groups. Rootwater's vocalist, Maciej Taff usually sings in English, but some songs refer to Hebrew (Hava Nagila), or are sung in traditional Roma language (Caje Sukarije), Polish, or French (Climchoque).