Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering (1991) [Reissue 2001]

 

Pungent Stench began in late 1987 when Martin Schirenc and Alex Wank, drummer from Carnage, got together to form a new band. They recruited Jacek Perkowski for the bass player position after months of searching, and by February 1988 the trio started rehearsing together. Barely a month in existence the band had already composed 10 songs, and by April 1988 the band recorded their first demo tape, Mucous Secretion. Recorded live in their rehearsal room, Mucous Secretion featured 5 tracks plus an intro taken out of the first The Evil Dead movie. The tape got very positive reactions from the tapetrading community.

In July 1988 the band travelled to England to record their second demo. Wank was as a guest at the mixing process of Napalm Death's sophomore album, From Enslavement to Obliteration, at the Birdsong Studios in Worcester. After that he booked 2 days for Pungent Stench in the same studio. The band had plans to release this demo in a professional manner, with a printed cover and manufactured tapes, but before the manufacturing process began Pungent Stench got an offer by Nuclear Blast Records

Pungent Stench happened to play close by Nuclear Blast's hometown, Donzdorf. The label's staff had already heard about the band and sent someone to watch their show and express the record company's interest in the group. Pungent Stench signed the contract in April 1989 and their first release for Nuclear Blast, a split album with fellow Austrian death metallers Disharmonic Orchestra, came out in June. The record was reasonably successful, moving more than 4 thousand units in less than a year. Extreme Deformity 7" vinyl EP, featuring three tracks from their unreleased demo, came out in September to rave reviews.

Pungent Stench's debut For God Your Soul... For Me Your Flesh was released in April 1990. Described as raw and primitive, it shows the band favoring simple song structures and visceral, demented aggression over technical proficiency and over-complicated soloing. The album's title track made it to the "100 Best Death Metal Songs" list compiled by the German version of Metal Hammer.

Around the time their first record came out Pungent Stench were already an experienced live band, having played with Carcass, Entombed, Napalm Death, Extreme Noise Terror, Atrocity and Prong, among others. By the end of the year they organized their first, 6-week European tour (named the "Fleisch Tour"), with Master headlining and Paul Speckmann's thrash metal side project Abomination as the opening act.

 

 

-Tracklist:

1. Shrunken And Mummified Bitch     3:48

2. Happy Re-Birthday     3:26

3. Games Of Humiliation     5:09

4. S.M.A.S.H.     2:34

5. Brainpan Blues     4:05

6. And Only Hunger Remains     5:56

7. Sputter Supper     3:24

8. Sick Bizarre Defaced Creation   4:13

9. Splatterday Night Fever     4:38

10. Daddy Cruel     3:32

11. The Ballad Of Mangled Homeboys     3:29

 

-Line up:

• Alex Wank: drums

• Jacek Perkowski: bass

• Martin Schirenc: guitars, vocals.

 

 

 

Label: Nuclear Blast.

Tracks 10 & 11 are bonus tracks not available on the original version, the booklet contains lyrics for them too.

 

Recorded and mixed at Donnersound Studios, August '91.

 

 

 

Bathory - Bathory (1984) [Repress 2013]

Bathory were one of the pioneers of the first wave of Black Metal as well as Viking Metal.
When Quorthon formed the band in 1983, his nickname was originally Black Spade. He soon changed it to Ace Shoot, then finally to Quorthon, a name he found on a list of demons.

• Barcode: Matrix / Runout: BA 666 A
• Barcode: Matrix / Runout: BA 666 B

-Tracklist:

Side A - Darkness
1. Hades     05:03    
2. Reaper     02:44    
3. Necromansy     03:41    
4. Sacrifice     03:17
     
Side B - Evil
5. In Conspiracy with Satan     02:29    
6. Armageddon     02:32    
7. Raise the Dead     03:42      
8. War     03:34

-Line up:

- Quorthon (R.I.P. 2004): vocals, guitars, songwriting, lyrics
- Stefan Larsson: drums.

 

Exact copy of the original "Yellow Goat" release, record labels, Catalog# etc., with the A4 insert.

 Recorded at Heavenshore Studio, Stockholm, Sweden

Recorded on June, 1984
Published by Tyfon Music
Mixed at Electra Studio, Stockholm, Sweden.

 Label: Black Mark Production (fake).

Ilustration by Joseph Smith.

 

 

 

 

 

Demented - How Much For My Death? [2006]

 

-Discography:

 

- Promo 2004 [Demo 2004]    

- How Much for My Death? [2006]    

- Psychoanalysis of Eternal Pain [2008]    

- 3-Ways to Exhume [Split 2009]

 

-Tracklist:

1. Darkness     04:21   
2. Emperors of the Dark    03:00   
3. Epidemic      03:47   
4. Slab          03:57   
5. End           03:23   
6. Dementia      03:24   
7. Penumbra      04:02   
8. Deep      03:38   
9. In the Divine Name of Pain   03:52

 

-Line up:

• Guitars And Bass: Kris
• Drums And Vocals: Carlos.

 

 

Recorded, mixed & mastered in 4 days of October 2005 by Paco Liaño at Treboada studios (A Coruña)
Label: Reek of Putrefaction Records.

 

 

 

Puteraeon - Fascination For Mutilation [demo CD-R] (2008)

 

Puteraeon was spawned in Alingsås, Sweden 2008 by guitarist & vocalist Jonas Lindblood (Taetre). “I started doing some oldschool riffs that took me back to my roots in death metal”. Some songs were posted on the net and there was a big demand for demos. Jonas did all in all 3 demos during the time of 2008-2009.

All demos were very well recieved within the underground. The demos got really good reviews and loads of interviews were made.

At the same time he had contacted both Anders Malmström, drums (ex-Nominon, Prophanity, Immemoreal, ex-Inverted) and Daniel Vandija, bass (13itch). And they were pursuaded to join. But all took some time.

When the band finally got together and started rehearsing, the contract with Cyclone Empire was allready inked. Hasse Sörensen who was in the band a short while on guitar was replaced by Rune Foss (Exempt, Reclusion, Aggro).

Finally in early 2011, the band is all set and ready to go. “The Esoteric Order” (T.E.O) mixed and mastered by Andy LaRocque Sonic Train studios, is an oldschool Swedish death metal album, blasting with rot and phlegm.

Following the success of T.E.O, Puteraeon hit the stage for the first time at Överrocken in Alingsås/Sweden. During the same year the swedish cities Gothenburg (twice) and Finspång got haunted by us and also the highlight Party San Open Air.

Early 2012 after a period of writing songs Puteraeon hit the stage in Västervik (se) in between recordings of the follow up to T.E.O, entitled Cult Cthulhu (C.C). The album was recorded with technician/producer/engineer/sound tech Kristian RZA Isaksson. Final mix and master again at Sonic Train Studios and Andy LaRoque.
The album was released on June 1’st via Cyclone Empire.
With the arrival of the autumn Puteraeon made yet another visit to Gothenburg and for the first time a gig in Denmark - Aalborg metal festival.

The future looks bright, the future looks rotten, embrace our Cult of the dreamless sleep of Cthulhu…

 

-Tracklist:

1. The Plague     02:24
2. Butchery Torment     02:41
3. Castle of Despair     03:52
4. Buried Shadows     02:47
5. Timewarped     04:24
6. Bloodcult     04:12
7. Cannibalistic     04:00
8. Werewolf     02:56

-Line up:

• Jonas Lindblood: everything.

 

 

 

 

 Label: Independent.

 

All music decomposed by Puteraeon.

Recorded at studio Stunlight, Alingsås, Sweden.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Jonas Lindblood

 

 

 

Totten Korps ‎- Tharnheim: Athi-Land-Nhi; Ciclopean Crypts Of Citadels (2000)

 

Totten Korps, founded in 1989 in Santiago, Chile, is one of the extreme metal pioneer bands in Chile, as well as being an influential band for future generations of Chilean Death Metal. The band was born amidst the chaos arising from the military dictatorship ruling the country at the time, scenario that fueled the goal of recording their first demo “The King of Hell Reclaims his Throne” (1990) and subsequently their second demo “For the Infernal Resurrection” (1991). Through these two recordings, an obscure and morbid EP was born: “Our Almighty Lords” (1992). In 1993, the band signed their first record deal with Hellion Rec from Brazil, thus managing to cross the Chilean borders to disseminate their somber Death Metal throughout the globe.

In 2000, Totten Korps signed with Spanish label Repulse Records, which led to the release of the band’s first LP: “Tharnheim: -Ati-Land-Nhi; Ciclopean Crypts of Citadels”, an album marked by an occultist/transcendental philosophical structure that took the band to be released in Europe, North America and Asia.

Currently, Totten Korps holds a legendary status within the South American underground Death Metal scene. In October 2014, the band completed their second LP “Supreme Commanders of Darkness”, a dark, brutal and technical album, which also manages to preserve the old school roots.

 

 

-Tracklist:

 1. Intro     01:34
2. The Ancient Demoniac Celebration     03:31
3. Slaughter Nocturnal Butcher     04:30
4. Tharnheim: Athi-Land-Nhi, Ciclopean Crypts of Citadels  04:16
5. The Black Horde of the Surdic Gods     04:37
6. Our Almighty Lords     02:40
7. Imperator of the Black Abyss  04:12
8. Das schwarze Korps     03:40
9. Totten Korps     03:27
10. Avohej, the God-Dog of Nazareth     03:59
11. The 7th Blasphemies of Sacred Sacrament     03:25

 

 

-Line up:

• Cristián Soto: guitars
• Cristian Ortíz Von Martoq: bass, vocals
• Fernando Toro: guitars
• Sergio Aravena: drums.

 

 

Released by World War III on October 9th 2001 in the Usa with the Our Almighty Lords EP as bonus tracks.
Reissued by Blackend in 2003 as a 2 CD set with Imprecation's Theurgia Goetia Summa on disc 2.
Recorded and mixed by Claudio Torres at HYT Studios, in January 2000, Santiago, Chile.
Mastered by Joaquin Garcia at Clio Studios, Santiago, Chile.
 Label: Repulse Records.

 

 

Draugar - Weathering the Curse (2004)

 

The Draugr (Old Icelandic plural Draugar) is, according to Medieval Icelandic Sagas, an evil and restless dead that torments and causes harm to the living. In Later Norwegian folklore, the Draugen is mostly associated with sailors that died at sea.
 

Lyrical themes: darkness, solitude, hatred, absurdity of existence.   

Handnumered. Limited to 500 copies. 

-Tracklist:

 1. Warrior Without War     06:43     
2. I Come as a Curse     12:42     
3. Infernal Existence / Grey Horizons     07:37     
4. Wage a Finale Battle     06:05     
5. Trails of Blood That Lead to Dark Corners     06:09     
6. 10 Fold / Tortured Old Soul     08:07     
7. Laughing and Bleeding     07:23     
8. Through the Dark Until You Die     05:37

-Line up:

⛧Tim Lehi: everything.

 

 

Label: Moribund Records.

 

Cover and Back Tray
Paintings by R.L.P.

 

Limited to 500 copies.