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PUTRED
Repulsie Post-Mortem

Cavernous (2023)
Rating: 9/10

With their long-awaited debut full-length platter of splatter, Romanian bunch Putred is most certainly giving the rest of the death metal genre a run for its money.

Repulsie Post-Mortem is one hell of a heavy ride. Dripping with gory and daubed with immense bludgeoning grooves, Putred has mastered the art of combining repugnant old school dynamics with the more contemporary traipses through sewage which a number of bands – from the US, Finland and the UK – are dabbling in. The melancholic solos combating sludgy riffs, the thudding percussion and those utterly miserable vocal gurgles – it’s all here; a pulverising but extremely catchy offering so morbid and yet infectious that after just one listen you’ll feel as if you’ve owned this record for a long time.

Ending with a superb rendition of the Asphyx track ‘Rites Of Shades’, Repulsie Post-Mortem often lumbers like a serial murderer trudging off to meet his next woodland victim, all the while his already bloodied clothes become further sodden and caked by the swampy terrain that only he knows.

‘Cavou curgător’, ‘Duhoare de moarte’ and opener ‘Peste umbra densă’ are grisly, foul utterances ushered in via the dense, boggy tremors of bass and drum before the doom-laden riff chugs with such a thickening and gloopy stride. This is immense, premium death metal so hefty and so spattered with vomit that one cannot help but wade through its sickly landscape.

How one can be so excited by such a clumpy, congealed narrative is testimony to my own deranged pleasure, but now is the time for you, dear reader, to stop reading this review and grab yourself a copy of this underground leviathan.

Neil Arnold

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