Putrevore - Unending Rotting Cycle
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PUTREVORE – UNENDING ROTTING CYCLE LABEL: XTREEM MUSIC RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 11th 2025
We walk upon a road of mouldering bones, empty sockets staring up in silent reproach at our trespass. And then, with a last backward glance at the fading daylight, we step into the maw of death…descending into a darkness beyond black, the lightless catacombs of dying where life has no place and angels fear to tread. Here the gods have many eyes and many serpentine limbs. Here the dead converse in crackling whispers as their flesh sloughs from their bent and twisted frames. Here the aeons pass in unending rotting cycles…
Putrevore…a shared dream between two icons of death, a nascent idea hatched between Dave Rotten (Avulsed, Holycide etc) and Rogga Johansson (Paganizer, Ribspreader and a thousand more) to pay tribute to the hardest, heaviest and most brutal of the death metal pioneers of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, more than twenty years ago. Yet still the beast clings to life with a vicious tenacity and a fifth full length album of impossible horrors is about to be unleashed – Unending Rotting Cycle!
Attacking with a terrifying immediacy, ‘No Mourning The Grace’ reveals Dave Rotten’s vocals at their most tomb-trawling, deeper and more inhuman than ever before, while Rogga Johansson’s inexhaustible supply of superlative death metal riffs remains undiminished. An inherent sense of dark melody is always present behind the song’s wall of terror, spreading tendrils of utter desolation through its rotting cadaver. There’s an incredible murky darkness shrouding this album as a whole, the vocals clawing their way up through the thick, oppressive riffs, while the drums deliver a crisp, bone shaking thunder within the vortex of chaos. On tracks like the magnificent, rumbling, infernal majesty of ‘Subterranean Paths To The Temples’, the fear infused atmosphere is simply awesome. There is no let up in the nightmarish aura – once Putrevore have sunk their cracked, decaying teeth into your flesh they do not let go. From the stumbling zombie death march of ‘They Worship Disarray’, led by Rotten’s flesh melting vocals, to the paean to horrors from beyond the boundaries of sanity that is ‘Cult Of The Tentacle’, Unending Rotting Cycle is a testament to the fact that the blood in Putrevore’s collective veins runs black with the essence of death metal. The final act of desecration, ‘The Cradle Replaced By The Grave’, is haunting and morose as it grinds you into the dust, extinguishing the last flickering embers of life and hope.
Mixed and mastered by Avulsed guitarist, Alejandro Lobo, at his Acordica Studios and featuring the cataclysmic drumming of regular Rogga Johansson co-conspirator Thomas Ohlsson (Stass, War Magic etc), Unending Rotting Cycle is without question the most relentless, ravenous and remorseless example of Putrevore’s death metal war machine. It will be released by Xtreem Music on November 11th on CD, 12"LP Cassette & Digital formats, completed by the stunning artwork of Lucretia Morti (Avulsed, Ribspreader etc). Bleak, black and bestial, Putrevore remain the undead embodiment of an old phrase from the age that inspired them – some music was meant to stay underground.
Genre: Death Metal
For Fans Of: Incantation | Immolation | Avulsed | Grisly Line-up:
Dave Rotten – Vocals
Rogga Johansson – Guitars/Bass
Drums on Unending Rotting Cycle performed by Thomas Ohlsson
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