Rootwater was a Polish nu metal band, formed in Warsaw in 2002[2] by Sebastian Zusin, Tomasz "Yońca" Jońca and Paweł Jurkowski.

In their music there are many hardcore, thrash, folk and punk, and even ambient influences clearly audible.

The name of the band comes from a Magic: The Gathering card captioned "Rootwater Commando".

The band is famous for their psychedelic album covers.

Rootwater's vocalist, Maciej Taff usually sings in English, but some songs refer to Hebrew (Hava Nagila),[3] or are sung in traditional Roma language (Caje Sukarije), Polish, or French (Climchoque).