Putrevore has existed for nearly two decades
as a meeting point between two titans of the underground. Dave Rotten of Avulsed
and Rogga Johansson of Paganizer. The project was born from their shared
hunger for pure, punishing death metal, and “Unending Rotting Cycle,” their
fifth album, keeps that flame burning in its most foul and unrelenting form.
This album
doesn’t waste time. “No Mourning The Grace” greets the listener with the kind
of suffocating heaviness that only veterans like these can summon. Rotten’s vocals remain one of death metal’s
deepest growls, an inhuman roar that sounds as if it crawled straight out of a
tomb. Rogga Johansson’s guitar tone is pure
filth, the riffs stomping and grinding with a gruesome sense of finality. The
songs never drift far from their core purpose. To crush, rot, and destroy.
“Cult Of
The Tentacle” is one of the album’s standout assaults, a nightmarish march
through swampy riffs and demonic bellows. The closing “The Cradle Replaced By
The Grave” crushes everything in its path, sealing the album in a coffin of
despair and decay. Throughout, the sense of dread never lets up.
Alejandro Lobo’s
mix keeps things grounded in the dirt, allowing the low-end to dominate but
still giving space for Johansson’s riffing to rot in glorious detail. “Unending
Rotting Cycle” is exactly what its title promises. A relentless return to the
bowels of death metal’s filthiest traditions. It’s heavy, sincere, and devoted
to the old gods of the genre without sliding into parody. Putrevore isn’t evolving, they’re decomposing
beautifully.
Score: 7.5
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