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PUTRID WOMB: PROPENSITY FOR VIOLENCE

PUTRID WOMB: PROPENSITY FOR VIOLENCE

   Considering how utterly saturated with new bands and releases the Brutal Slamming Death-Metal scene is today, it is unsurprising that bands are beginning to look elsewhere for inspiration and diversifying in order to stand out in the maddening, bustling brutal music crowd. In Putrid Womb's case, for their debut full-length they have delved back in time, to a simpler time when Brutal Death-Metal wasn't entirely obsessed with speed, blastbeats and breakdowns. The product of this creative tactic, Propensity For Violence, is a strong and highly refined album, enjoyable to say the least, yet also noticeably lacking a certain charm and depth that chastens the album from being something more than just "good".
   Propensity For Violence is definitely not your average Brutal Slamming Death-Metal release, far from it. Taking the place of the massively overused crushing breakdowns and bass drops, Putrid Womb have loaded their arsenal with tight tidy drumming and sinister mid-paced rhythmic guitar work. That said, the album is not short of a few Slams here and there, or bumbling bass work, squealing gutturals and intricate riffing.
   Following on from the album's grooving, Slamming instrumental intro, title track "Propensity For Violence" keeps up the catchy grooves and unloads a massive dose of delightful bouncing riffs and Disentomb style heaviness. "Diarrhea Waterboarding" is characterised by the strange use of techno bleeps and bloops, scattered among some otherwise solid Party Cannon strain melodic stomping Slams. 
   For evidence of Putrid Womb's incorporation of old-school Death-Metal inspired workings, look no further than the excellent cover of Obituary's "By The Light", paying homage to the bands legendary sound with immense skill, while "Vaginal Evisceration" and the distinctly more Devourment-esque Slamming "Of Incest And Depravity", one of the album highlights, reek of Six Feet Under, both musically and vocally. 
    The charmingly titled "Ceaseless Ejaculation" is musically a very intense track, containing some excellent traditionally booming yet also strangely jubilant riffing and impressive inaudible gutturals. Closing track "Perpetual Punishment" ends the album in a slightly faster note, armed with a splash of bass drops, chugging old-school Death-Metal riff intricacy and Slam signature smashing symbols.     
   Overall, Propensity For Violence is a good album and definitely enjoyable, giving a fresh take on a rotting style of extreme music. Putrid Womb clearly have a lot of potential, not just to make great music, but to revive a scene which is rapidly losing ideas.     


    
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PROPENSITY FOR VIOLENCE is available through ROTTEN MUSIC here

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