{"title":"Pungent Stench","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"mucous-secretion","title":"Mucous Secretion","description":"\u003cp\u003eOld school Extreme Death Metal demo finally available again! Contains a never heard before rehearsal including the previously unreleased song “Melted Corpse”!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hammerheart Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":51931451785547,"sku":"R5620-8783","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/hhr2025-35_pungent_stench_-_mucous_secretion_740x_987ae50e-dbb1-4a4c-8637-589e417758dd.webp?v=1748598494"},{"product_id":"extreme-deformity-zl","title":"Extreme Deformity","description":"\u003cp\u003eClassic Death Metal EP finally available again! Featuring a previously unreleased song and a previously unreleased ‘88 live recording! Tracked in a single day on August 25th, 1988 at Birdsong Studio, Worcester, England! “Extreme Deformity” includes all 4 original tracks, including the long-lost “Rip You Without Care”, missing for over 37 years. Brutal, spontaneous Death Metal captured in its purest, most primitive form. This release also included “Embalmed in Sulphuric Acid”, recorded on an afternoon in Vienna with members of Napalm Death and Extreme Noise Terror in the Pungent Stench rehearsal room!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hammerheart Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":53172927332683,"sku":"R3318-4535","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":53172927365451,"sku":"R3318-1823","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Pungent-Stench-Extreme-Deformity-CD-169436-1-1750919206.jpg?v=1755101745"},{"product_id":"pungent-stench-fz","title":"Pungent Stench","description":"\u003cp\u003eClassic Death Metal recordings finally available again! Featuring the complete split LP sessions and a previously unreleased ‘89 live recording! Hammerheart Records re-issues the infamous Pungent Stench side of their split with Disharmonic Orchestra. Raw and filthy Death Metal, recorded in 1989 and still standing as a milestone of underground brutality. This release also includes the “The Pleasures in Life” compilation songs from the same studio session, plus crushing live recordings as bonus. These tracks show Pungent Stench at their most primitive and unhinged. Essential for fans of early Death Metal history!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hammerheart Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":55835091927371,"sku":"R2428-8612","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":55835091960139,"sku":"R2428-6457","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/diss077cdd.jpg?v=1762335662"},{"product_id":"for-god-your-soul-for-me-your-flesh-ml","title":"For God Your Soul… For Me Your Flesh","description":"\u003cp\u003ePure filthy Death Metal perfection! Pungent Stench’s 1990 classic debut remastered! The year 1990 was the moment Death Metal truly exploded. Bands like Entombed released their debut full lengths (which would later go on to be some of the most respected albums of the entire genre) and soon to be giants of the genre Deicide and Cannibal Corpse would also release their first albums. But in Austria something even stranger and more twisted was festering. Pungent Stench arrived with “For God Your Soul… For Me Your Flesh”, a debut that smashed Death Metal and early Grindcore together into a sound that sounded like a cross between Obituary and Terrorizer! What makes this record stand out is its total rejection of finesse. No melody. No clean lines. No attempt at showing off. Just a filthy, hostile churn of riffs that somehow stick in your skull long after the noise dies down. Tracks like “A Small Lunch” and “Blood, Pus and Gastric Juice” prove that primitive Death Metal always hits hardest when it doesn’t try to be clever. Sludge soaked slow sections collapse into savage bursts, and the bass rumbles underneath it all like some diseased animal clawing for daylight. Like on their early material and the record that followed, Pungent Stench twist D-Beat and Thrash Metal soaked Death Metal into something that lurches between Speed, Doom and their own brand of morbid humor. They were never a parody, never a joke band. Their sick grin only made the filth more vivid. “For God Your Soul… For Me Your Flesh” might not be the album everyone cites first from Death Metal’s golden era, but it stands as a raw, essential blast of grime and extremity that still demands to be played loud and often.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hammerheart","offers":[{"title":"2CD","offer_id":56636520071499,"sku":"R2673-1314","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":56636520104267,"sku":"R2673-9531","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Pungent-Stench-For-God-Your-Soul_85-For-Me-Your-Flesh-CD-172695-1-1767777945_c761c251-a11e-4745-ae7b-33c94db1d940.jpg?v=1772108290"},{"product_id":"been-caught-buttering-2cd-edition-hx","title":"Been Caught Buttering (2CD-Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePungent Stench’s 1991 underground Death Metal classic album remastered! “Been Caught Buttering” achieves greatness not by expanding upon or pushing forward the Death Metal genre, but by distilling it. Here is death metal embodied: buzzsaw guitars threaten to slice through limb, drums are hit with the precision and care of a killer clubbing his victim, the bass throbs underneath like the pulse of some monstrous beast, solos rip through the din without warning, depraved tales are recited in a maniacal bark, and everything is sloshed in terrible, fetid grime. As far as ruthless, muck-encrusted death, its only rival is “Mental Funeral” by Autopsy. This is elemental, admirable for its purity of vision. As definitive as this sophomore album is, it’s also unique, both in Pungent Stench’s discography and in Death Metal as a whole. Nothing is quite like it, which is hinted at before you even hear it. Joel-Peter Witkin returns as cover artist, with the piece “The Kiss”, a photograph of a cadaver head split down the middle and the two halves laid side by side as if caught in an amorous embrace. Witkin’s work is suitably repulsive, but with enough artistry to elevate it above the legions of goregrind covers created. Musically, there’s an undercurrent of Rock. Unlike Death ‘N’ Roll bands (such as Pungent Stench became on their subsequent album) who make rock music with Death Metal trappings, “Been Caught Buttering” bends and contorts rock to fit within its twisted framework. Just as the cover takes a familiar and innocent image and perverts it into something dreadful, the band employ well-worn tropes to devious ends. The Pungent Stench discography is very diverse in its quality. There are other high points, but none to match this, not that one could reasonably expect a band to attain this quality once, let alone multiple times. When asked what this death metal thing is about, our answer is simply to play “Been Caught Buttering”. If you worship at the altars of ungodly splatter, if you regularly have sonic sewage oozing from your headphones and your buttering has as of yet gone undetected, it’s high time you get yourself caught.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hammerheart Records","offers":[{"title":"2CD","offer_id":57509060608331,"sku":"R7790-7198","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Been_Caught_Buttering.jpg?v=1780582848"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/pungent-stench.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}