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PUTRID FATE
Feast On Flesh EP

Self-released (2022)
Rating: 8/10

Scotland isn’t exactly known for its death metal, but this debut release from one-man project Putrid Fate should hopefully put it on the map. This release features six songs and runs just shy of 15 minutes, but if you like your death metal dark n’ grisly then this is for you.

The man behind such a creation is Rory MacAulay, and boy does he serve up a festering platter of splatter. Opening cut ‘Cemetery’ begins with a creepy film sample and then your brain is mashed to a pulp, your innards thrown into a blender and your limbs fed to the pigs.

MacAulay brings sickening haste to the menu with every instrument gnashing and slashing in violent convulsions. The pace only lets up around the 1:20 mark when slow churning buzzsaw riffs march in doomy fashion as Rory drops and dribbles congealed saliva. Then, it’s back to the bludgeoning.

If Putrid Fate was a serial killer it wouldn’t be one that toys with its victims or the authorities. Here, the crimes are carried out swiftly before moving onto the next kill.

‘Rot’ may be short but it revs like a rusty chainsaw, gnashing with menace, while ‘Decompose’ is shorter still with the grinding death acting as a killer pursing prey.

The title cut, ‘Feast On Flesh’, ominously trudges then quickens, hacking, jangling as MacAulay pukes up another clotted vocal cyst and we are consumed again by gore.

Putrid Fate is now upon us, ravenous in its rampage and manifesting chunky, scowling rhythms to hack up bodies too. You have no choice but to become the next victim. Support the underground and buy this.

Neil Arnold

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