Album Type: Full-Length
Date
Released: 9/2/2015
Label: Kaotoxin
Records
‘Mature
Necropsy’ CD//DD track listing:
1.
Purulent Cold
2.
Garroting Way
3.
Mortuary Garlands
4.
Gurgling Prey
5.
Repulsive Corpse
6.
Suffering
7.
From Plasma to Embalming
8.
Organic Excavation
9.
Premature Necropsy
10.
Symptom
11.
Rotted Flesh
12.
Birth Remains
13.
Outro
14.
Freddy Kruger*
15.
Sane Men**
·
Total running time: 34:10 (CD)
·
Tracks 14 & 15 are CD-exclusive bonus cover
versions (of S.O.D. and Nerve, respectively).
Putrid Offal
is
Frédéric
Houriez - bass (M.Pheral)
Franck
Peiffer - guitars and vocals (M.Pheral)
Phil
Reinhalter- guitars (Division Alpha)
Laye
Louhenapessy - Drums (Dehuman, Vibrion)
Review:
What
happens when a band takes an extended hiatus (19-20 years, give or take) from
making goregrind/death metal and then return with re-recordings of their early
nineties material? A pretty brutal record happens, apparently.
I'm
going to state this right away. The drums appear programmed. I don't care. They
do exactly what they need to do to support the relentless riffs and grooves
that pound through this record. I say do what you need to do to get what you
hear in your head out there.
Everything
on these re-recordings sound intense and present with some obvious benefits of
modern recording techniques and the drums enhance the fact that the guitar and
bass are really tight. There is a dark, minor key ambiance that permeates
throughout with vocals that get so guttural I'm pretty sure you can hear shit
gurgling at the bottom guitarist/vocalist
Frank Peiffer's guts at the end of ‘Garroting Away’. There are some truly disturbing human sounds
throughout this record. That track also features some creepy-as-hell ambient
synth-like sounds that appear a little unexpectedly and to good effect. A
similar orchestration appears in ‘From
Plasma to Embalming’.
There
are a few lead guitar moments that lend themselves similarly to the synth-ish
parts with a focus more on which notes that add to the tension of the riff, as
opposed to how many notes can be played in a few bars of music. There are LOTS
of great blasts and digusting, atonal slashing on the strings consistent with
grind and death metal. Then there are spots like the intro to ‘Repulsive Corpse’, which features a mid-tempo, slamming
groove and later in the same track where the band gets almost a little sludgy
with an actual guitar solo, that while relaxing in tempo, don't let off on the
overwhelming sense of dread the band is creating. Of course we also get some
great build-ups and stops and a few distorted bass breaks for good measure,
like the intro to ‘Birth Remains’.
The
band has a drummer performing with them live and has several festival dates
lined-up starting this month through the end of the year. I imagine these
veterans can slay a stage and who knows if they'll be at it again anytime soon.
I
would have never guessed that some of these songs were originally written when
I was 7.
Words by: Ian Smedbron
For more
information:
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