Artist: Putrefy
Album: One Nation Under Gore
Type: Album
Label: Metal Age Productions
Hailing from Nothern Ireland, Putrefy are all about the speed/slam/speed style of brutal death metal. Although forming in the early 90’s, I bought their first album out of curiosity when it was released in 2006, and can’t say I was overly impressed by their one dimensional blast-a-thon or the inevitable gurgling pig squealing gore-fest that coupled it. However, I must say that to some extent, ‘One Nation Under Gore’ is an improvement.
The album as a whole is made up of destructive rhythms, pinch harmonics, clicky double bass work, enamel cracking lightspeed-fast riffs and gravity beats, followed by painfully slow slam sections that sound as though they could level cities at a time. Add in the occasional sample from a horror movie (seemingly not as many as their debut, thankfully) as well as song topics that out-‘bleugh’ Cannibal Corpse and you’ve got the rudimentary blueprint for Putrefy right there. There’s certainly improvement in the song crafting department when compared to the first album, with pretty decent riffage to be found here and there. The problem with this is that you just have to be in the mood for the style of music; one of those moods where you switch off all thoughts and get swept away by the fuzz of distortion and rhythms.
I’ve got quite a bit of this style of metal in my collection, but Putrefy just don’t spark my interest enough to make me want to check out further releases. It’s certainly not terrible (there are a hell of a lot of one man, brutal slam death metal bands whom these guys piss all over with their professionalism and song-writing abilities), but it just leaves me cold with it’s crude single-minded approach. However, in the same breath, you wouldn’t go buying this album expecting anything other than a face-removing bludgeoning of guitars, rattling bass and unintelligible vocals. One to throw next to your burgeoning Mortician collection.
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Lars Christiansen
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