15.11.2004 
Lynndie (She-Wolf Of Abu Ghraib)
Invisible Empire
The Amp Hymn
The Passion Of Lucifer
Got Milf?
Human Garbage
Apotemnophiliac
No Guts, No Glory
Same Shift - Different Asshole
Fear The Grand Inquisitor
El Cochino (Martin Shirenc) - vocals guitar
Mr. Stench (Alex Wank) - drums
Fabio
Testi - bass
review by Artur
Felicijan____ 
| Old - school Death Metal and a treasure of abominable poetry |
Perverse
sexual content never sounded so good and so goddamn fun as it did by
listening to Pungent Stench. If you thought that Viennese psychos were
drained of death metal and juicy lyrics with 2001 output "Masters
of Moral - Servants of Sin", you were damn wrong! With
their latest album, entitled "Ampeauty", Pungent Stench return
with 10 pieces of old-school death metal anthems and a treasure of
abominable poetry.
The
whole album sounds early 90's death metal, with a sick touch of rock n'
roll grooves. All songs are driven by constant metal grinding, with
occasional electronic parts that do not force any kind of modern musical
decoration. Composition and hard rock spirit is very obvious,
which makes whole album listenable and great to get drunk by. Don't get
me wrong, but this is actually the most sociable interpretation I can
imagine, while listening these rather bizarre Austrian perverts.
Talking
about bizarre - that is by far most politically correct statement I can
give you about the Stench company. To be honest with you, I
don't know if I am already too old, but I find these guys inhumanly
perverse, disgusting, intolerant and most certainly - IMMORAL! I take
many things (considering art) for granted. I really don't mind lyrical
hatred, don't care about blasphemy, shit eating or any kind of similar
pleasurable actions that certain people love practicing. But this whole
"Amp" stuff... this is clearly too much! I don't and
can not accept this as humourous and so shouldn't any other sane person,
for it is highly offensive, careless, and in their
case - CHILDISH! Either they need to reconsider some parts of
their image or get some help, because this simply isn't healty.
At any rate, Pungent Stench stood with this image since 1988, and in 2004 they made it clear they're not going to change it - Thumbs up for that.
"Ampeauty"
is (lyrics aside) a "cool" death metal album of the
Old-school, worth noticing, as it sounds fresh today. With all
these high-end production "Nu" bands and cheesy black metal
phenomena, Pungent Stench made their impression with musical simplicity,
aggressive performance, and die-hard attitude. To express myself in a
Stench way - BUY or DIE!
Favourite
track: Invisible Empire
rating: 7/10
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