I believe it was some months ago when I first heard Putrid Pile. I was astonished and brutally earfucked by the immense brutality and the insane kick ass hooks that were thrown through my speakers. Now, I have the new Putrid Pile record called The Pleasure Of Suffering. I was curious about it, but when I actually heard it for the first time, I was a little bit disappointed. It’s not that Shaun LaCanne (Lividity) didn’t do his best, but he used a different approach.  

 

The reason why I was disappointed is that there is less structure and more technical nonsense. I really like that old skool double-bass/blast mayhem and there was enough of that on Collection Of Butchery, the last record. I miss it here, but the music still is not too bad. People with a taste for ultra brutal guttural death metal, as they can only make in the US, will have a perfect opportunity to jack off on it. Songs like Rush Hour Killing Spree and Battered Bitch really reminded me of Prostitute Disfigurement, and I really enjoyed those songs. Caged And Awaiting Death, is a track that I found really insane because of the great riffs.

 

After hearing this album a couple of times, I still have my mixed feelings. It’s brutal and certainly well-sounding, but it lacks on something. I can’t really explain what, but Collection Of Butchery was more overwhelming than this new record. I don’t say that this record isn’t worth your money, because it really is. It’s indeed somewhat more technical and the vocals still sound the same as ever (Imagine a drunken Rottweiler that smoked 76 bags of tobacco and tries to cough it up at once) I would say this new record isn’t the bomb, but certainly not too bad either!