Look, let's be upfront about this.

Dead Rat Orchestra is, quite clearly, a terrible name for a band. Even the band members admit as much. "I normally say it now and cringe as I say it," Dead Rat Orchestree Nathan Mann concedes when I raise the interface of chosen moniker and rubbish quotient. "And I have to clarify that we're not 15 and it's not black metal. But strangely Spanish people think it's a fantastic name and North Americans tend to think it's brilliant."

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