PUNGENT STENCH — Been Caught Buttering (review)

PUNGENT STENCH — Been Caught Buttering album cover Album · 1991 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
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"Been Caught Buttering" is the 2nd full-length studio album by Austrian death metal trio Pungent Stench. The album was released through Nuclear Blast Records in October 1991. While "For God Your Soul... For Me Your Flesh (1990)" earned the band some success, "Been Caught Buttering" really put their name on the European death metal map. The album even spawned promotional music videos for the tracks "Shrunken and Mummified Bitch" and "Sick Bizarre Defaced Creation". It should be noted that the 2001 re-issue features two bonus tracks titled "Daddy Cruel" and "The Ballad of Mangled Homeboys".

The simple and filthy death metal style (with the occasional deathgrinding part) of the debut album is continued on "Been Caught Buttering", but with an added groove element (and even the odd funky slapbass part in "Sick Bizarre Defaced Creation"). In fact there are parts on the album that smell like death´n´roll a couple of years before that style was made popular by the likes of Entombed and Gorefest. The perverted blood´n´gore themes are in a similar style as the ones on the debut album albeit with an even more sick humourous twist. Tracks like "Sputter Supper" and especially the album highlight "Splatterday Night Fever" feature moments that are absolutely hilarious if you are able to appreciate the deranged humour. Sometimes the music is a bit too simple and formulaic, but "Been Caught Buttering" is overall a greatly entertaining release.

The music is delivered with a nice organic touch by the trio (there´s an almost filthy punked attitude about it) and the raw sound production is also something that suits the music well. The guitar is distorted to a point where it´s not always obvious what is being played (noisy buzzaw style), but somehow that´s not a serious distraction. A 3.5 star (70%) rating is deserved.
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