Putridity, Mental Prolapse Induces Necrophilism

Italy’s Putridity splattered onto the brutal death metal scene with their debut Mental Prolapse Induces Necrophilism — leaving bits of flesh and brain matter in their wake. Their first full length sees the band taking brutal death by the neck and stretching it to extremes. The deep, bludgeoning riffs are deeper and slower, the maniacal blasts from the drums leave carnage and battered bones after each track.

The production on Mental Prolapse Induces Necrophilism is superb, especially for a genre known for less than stellar production. There is simply an immense wall of sound contained within these nine tracks. Crushing riffs combine with vocals that sound like demons gargling the regurgitated souls of the damned — the are completely indecipherable and evil as fuck. Throw in a few sound clips from your random horror movie and you have the base for one hell of a debut effort.

Intro
The rather long intro is essentially what sounds like a sound clip from Hostile. There are some added effects to it, but you nothing to bring you back to it each time you put in the disc.

Abortifacient whore lobotomizer
The first real track on the album lauches the listener head first into a nasty, blood caked wood chipper with hellishly growled vocals. The vocals are key to this album as they are completely indecipherable yet actually have some decent range to them, shifting from ultra deep gurgles to pig squeals. As far as this song is concerned there are some impressive tempo shifts and gnarly, chugging riffs.

Molesting vomited decapitation
You’ve just got to love the song titles to just about any extreme, brutal death metal album. They’re meant to disgust and revile — the dudes from Putridity have it down to a science and this is their debut album. The riffs so far through this album have been simplistic in nature yet completely bludgeoning in their execution.

Zombie oral sex
As you can imagine, “Zombie oral sex” is full of disgusting lyrics in broken English — the dudes are from Italy after all — which oddly enough makes it that much more evil and earnest in it’s effects. There are some Cannibal Corpse influence guitar highlights throughout this one, as well. The band shifts tempos nicely from erratic pummeling to a slow, methodical skinning and back again.

Conscious in rigor mortis
Unrelenting drums and a big growl start this one off in an air of chaos as riff after riff tear through flesh and bone. Layered growls are used to decent effect on “Conscious in rigor mortis” and add a much needed dynamic to the band’s overall sound. It can be a bit one dimensional at times.

Fermented entrails
Mmmm… I do love me some fermented entrails and so does this trio of Italian death metalers. This one has a great high paced attack with crushing riffs, more Corpse guitar squeals and guttural growls. The drum work is impressive through all of the tempo changes. The guitars at the 1:10 mark are chaotic and impressive. The churning slow down at the 1:55 mark is sick. The layered vocals to end the track are real nice.

Necrophiliac limitations
There’s a nice cadence to the start of this one that I wasn’t expecting, especially after the neanderthal like approach the band has taken with their brand of straight forward brutal death metal. The groove is quickly swallowed by intestine ripping riffs and teeth shattering drum work. The vocals on this one seem a bit more aggressive fore some reason.

Convulsive incestuous devourment
Some of the more unique guitar work on the album starts this one off nicely. I would have loved to hear some more of this throughout the rest of album. I can understand the desire to keep things simple and brutal, but that opening bit of guitar work was impressive. This is certainly the most varied track on the album, showing us that the band is capable of much more than they have shown on this debut.

Pursue the suicidal breed
A brief sound clip and series of movie screams starts this one off as pig squeal vocals pierce the air. As the music finally gets up to speed the vocals take a turn for the guttural as crushing riffs and drums permeate the room. I love the rusty saw blade riffing in the second half of the song. The track fades slowly into more sound clips to tie in the intro.

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There’s a science to turning a steady stream of relatively simplified riffs into a churning mass of bludgeoning blows to the skull. Putridity seem to have mastered that technique quickly with their debut album Mental Prolapse Induces Necrophilism. The straight foward brutal death metal barely contained in the nine tracks on this disc are sickeningly awesome in every facet — from the guttural growls to the unrelenting drums to the gag reflex inducing lyrics. Not too bad for a debut, if you ask me.

Favorite Tracks:
Just about all of them

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