Published: 3 Sep 2024
Putrefaction in Progress
- Release date: 2006
- Genres: Goregrind, Gorenoise
- Rating: 3.5/5
- Originally written: 7th June 2024
This is the album that made me fall in love with comically pingy snare drums, as a way to augment and accentuate the “primordial soup” approach to recording. The most logical and extreme conclusion to an already extreme genre, in all of its uncomfortably slimy and sickeningly wet goodness. Yet the album itself feels contradictory, the absolutely relentless drumming; amorphous slabs of guitar; an overwhelming lack of structure, leads this towards noise territory (an achievement itself!) which is relaxing in the same way a bed of nails is. Instead this just makes me feel as sick and as uncomfortable as whatever horrible afflictions the vocalist must be suffering from.
I appreciate it exists in all of its goofy extremity, but avoiding feeling genuinely nauseously ill is generally preferable.
Best tracks: Covered with Faeces as Decoration, Sexually Imminent Perverted Deviant, Infinitive Putrefaction in Progress, Equal Pleasures in the Realms of Dehumanisation, Fragrant Facial Purulence, A Divine Proclamation of Finishing the Present Existence
