PUTRED – Megalit al putrefacției

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• Bands:
  ROTRED
• Duration: 00:41:06
• Available from: 01/20/2025
• Label:

• Memento Mori

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To frame the content of “Megalit al putrefacției”, Putred's second full-length released by the ever-industrious Memento Mori, we could start from its ending, entrusted to the cover of “Critical Madness” by the masters Autopsy.
In the seminal work of Chris Reifert and his companions, made up of rot and textures that advance on a viscous and nauseating surface, clearly lies everything that the Romanian group intends to convey with their music, in a display of retro and swampy solutions that do not can do without also mentioning Grave, Derkéta, Cianide and the first Bolt Thrower (at least if we consider the most challenging parentheses).
Already appearing on these pages last year with the very pleasant “Defleshed Exhumation” by Necrotum, the singer/guitarist Filip Garlonta (twenty-two years old) returns surrounded by new companions to explore another niche of the death metal genre, giving up technicalities and twists to embrace a much more barbaric and primitive aesthetic, whose intent seems to be fundamentally to taint the listener in question with the sound of atmospheres cemeteries and chipped developments.
A proposal which, it goes without saying, no longer makes the slightest news these days, given the proliferation of bands bewitched by the old school, and which Putred tackle with a typically youthful enthusiasm, but without being able (yet) to afford a direct comparison with the real driving forces of this revival current (Undergang, Morbific, Fetid).
Everything here – starting from the flamboyant cover – smacks of authenticity and frankness, and this will probably be enough to satisfy underground completionists, but the ideas and that ability to rework capable of making an inflated style captivating are for the moment out of reach of the quartet originally from Transylvania, whose songwriting – however confident and spontaneous – cannot hide a certain scholasticism.
All things considered, “Megalit…” is the classic album with a longevity directly proportional to the expectations and level of fanaticism of the death metaller who wants to approach it: those who are now tired of similar operations, despite recognizing some of their merits (see the solo flashes of the guitars) , will set it aside sooner rather than later; those who are instead willing to overlook the concepts of 'authority' and 'personality', as long as they receive their dose of saturated and heavy riffs, will appreciate it for the reasons mentioned above, rewarding the passion and loyalty to the boys' line .
It is useless to underline, however, that the truly essential releases are others, and that from this point the Putred will have to start again to achieve more mature and intriguing results in the future.