review: Putrid Offal (France) -- living la vida loca of gore death metal

Putrid Offal

Sicknesses Obsessions

XENOKORP

11 September 2020

In the 15 songs in (almost) 35 minutes the band focuses on compact, blasting old-school death. The vocals are a dual approach of raging gremlin screech and low, gruff growl, while the drums alternate between fast and then blasting rhythms, and the guitars buzz and saw their way across. Once in a blue moon there is a hint of a semi-melody, but overall it is the brutality of a soundtrack to horror movies about the zombie apocalypse, if the movies were to be especially for death fanatics. It’s a fun big of mess of dirty extremity (not tech-death/prog at all) with gargled screaming, hollering, barking and growling and all those gory vocals. This is the second album by the French band, but their history is complicated. It seems like they were a gore metal demo band for a few years in the early 90s, but they got tired of it and moved on to industrial metal under the name M.Pheral. Decades later a couple of the original members got the itch again for Putrid Offal, recruited a couple of like-minded fellows, and in 2015 they had their debut album and here they are making disgusting gore metal again. The sicko metal is alive and well for Putrid Offal and this time it is better than ever: These old dogs have already been to the circus many times. They know the business of death metal. Therefore, this is for fans that want to death party like it’s 1991. This is not a revival. It’s a resuscitation.

Sicknesses Obsessions by PUTRID OFFAL