{"id":259144,"date":"2025-11-12T20:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/259144\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T20:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:33:08","slug":"putrevore-unending-rotten-cycle-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/259144\/","title":{"rendered":"Putrevore – Unending Rotten Cycle Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Inevitable. Perpetual. Eternal. Constant. And of course, Unending. All monikers appropriate for the supremacy of death, widely recognized by figures wiser than me as the most unifying of all our experiences. Whether your death is peaceful, disease-ridden, or a sudden explosion of macabre tragedy, it will come, and it will bear a face unique to your own experience. It\u2019s fitting, then, that death metal too has such an inexhaustible supply of manifestations and sonic descriptors from which to draw from. There\u2019s seemingly no end to the offshoots of subgenres and tributes and evolutions to be found around the world, but no matter how wanky or prog-infused the labels get, as time moves forward, death still awaits. Putrevore are a two-piece international outfit, one of innumerable side projects from Rogga Johnson (Paganizer) and Dave Rotten of Avulsed. Here to escort us through the cemetery on their fifth album, Unending Rotten Cycle, the question isn\u2019t whether you will get out alive, but how mangled and abused your corpse will be by the time we\u2019re finished.<\/p>\n

That Putrevore offer up death metal is no surprise, but this is no bright sounding colorful death. Unending Rotten Cycle is that wet death, that freshly tilled, earthworm-infested, \u201cthe body is equal parts chunky and liquid\u201d moist and cooled soil breed of death. With a tone like old Autopsy recorded in a cavernous depth, Putrevore offer up a smorgasbord of blasts and assaults devoid of anything offering reprieve or hope. Acoustic interludes? Melodic runs? Forget about it. Unending Rotten Cycle operates on a two-pronged assault of steamroller attacks which alternate into a crushing riff or groove that pulls from the well of all the maggot-infested giants of past and present, while Dave Rotten\u2019s large-intestine-originated bellows holler from below and amidst the music, drenched in reverb and disgust.<\/p>\n

\ufeffUnending Rotting Cycle by PUTREVORE<\/a><\/p>\n

Every song on display features a highlight worthy of note, and standouts really depend on which cadaverific presentation you\u2019re most into. \u201cMortal Ways of the Flesh\u201d features a devastatingly foul chuggathon slathered with just a whiff of hair-windmill inducing lead pulled from the book of Funebrarum, while \u201cMorbid Procession\u201d reminds one of the more frantic moments of Incantations Onward to Golgotha. \u201cThey Worship Disarray\u201d has a shockingly accessible crowd-chant of a chorus with Dave Rotten\u2019s voice paradoxically clear and enunciated despite sounding like bubbles erupting from a pool of miasma. The filth of Fetid is laced through blasts beats, and down-tempo lurches, while vintage Phrenelith destruction echoes through \u201cThe Cradle Replaced by the Grave.\u201d Doses of Vastum, Demilich, Funebre, and Mortiferium leave their fingerprints across tempo changes, diseased-sounding scales, and one corpse sodomizing groove after another.<\/p>\n

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The final product results in Unending Rotten Cycle being a succinct, straightforward, and high-quality offering of the most decomposed breed of death metal. Guitarist\/Bassist Rogga Johnson excavates riffs that manage to touch on so many flavors and sounds that I could burn my whole word count trying to name and list them all. The only real downside to this sort of presentation is that it threatens to become overwhelmed by the uniformity of what it sets out to do. And yet, brevity in song composition and album length help combat this, with each track coming in, throwing a slab of corpse meat at you, and running off before you have the chance to process how violated you are. \u201cThe Cradle Replaced by the Grave\u201d does a good job at just grazing a shift in atmosphere to announce it as an album closer, featuring the most moody of its chord progressions and whiff of leads before leaving your coffin shattered and tattered. At a hair over half an hour in length, the listener has no opportunity to succumb to boredom as Putrevore wisely peace out at a timely moment, leaving you with the silence of the cemetery for company.<\/p>\n

Unending Rotten Cycle stands tall as a testament to the inexhaustible possibilities of death. A glut of excellent riffs and a relatively short presentation ensure that, despite the (deliberate) stylistic limitations, Putrevore manage to squeeze the maximum amount of offal from this corpse. If you like death metal and you\u2019re tired of overly polished wankery or needlessly humanized presentations, I cannot imagine this being anything but a ghastly joy to listen to. Death metal will always rule the roost, and while far from innovative, Unending Rotten Cycle reigns supreme in its fierce display of the genre\u2019s might, impact, and staying power. Now, everyone grab a shovel, and start digging. Six feet should be more than sufficient for our needs\u2026<\/p>\n

Rating: 3.5\/5.0
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Xtreem Music
<\/a>Website: Album Bandcamp<\/a>
Releases Worldwide: November 11th, 2025<\/p>\n

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