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The year 1990 was the moment Death Metal truly exploded. Bands like Entombed released their debut full lengths (which would later go on to be some of the most respected albums of the entire genre) and soon to be giants of the genre Deicide and Cannibal Corpse would also release their first albums. But in Austria something even stranger and more twisted was festering. Pungent Stench arrived with “For God Your Soul… For Me Your Flesh”, a debut that smashed Death Metal and early Grindcore together into a sound that sounded like a cross between Obituary and Terrorizer!
What makes this record stand out is its total rejection of finesse. No melody. No clean lines. No attempt at showing off. Just a filthy, hostile churn of riffs that somehow stick in your skull long after the noise dies down. Tracks like “A Small Lunch” and “Blood, Pus and Gastric Juice” prove that primitive Death Metal always hits hardest when it doesn’t try to be clever. Sludge soaked slow sections collapse into savage bursts, and the bass rumbles underneath it all like some diseased animal clawing for daylight.
Like on their early material and the record that followed, Pungent Stench twist D-Beat and Thrash Metal soaked Death Metal into something that lurches between Speed, Doom and their own brand of morbid humor. They were never a parody, never a joke band. Their sick grin only made the filth more vivid.
Things got even messier afterwards. Plans for a US release and a remix were underway, until the studio accidentally erased three of the original master tracks. Pungent Stench had no choice but to re-record them in Vienna in 1992, while also working on what would become “Dirty Rhymes and Psychotronic Beats”.
“For God Your Soul… For Me Your Flesh” might not be the album everyone cites first from Death Metal’s golden era, but it stands as a raw, essential blast of grime and extremity that still demands to be played loud and often.
CD 1/LP
For God Your Soul...
For Me Your Flesh
1. Intro / Extreme Deformity
2. Hypnos
3. For God Your Soul...
For Me Your Flesh
4. Just Let Me Rot
5. Pungent Stench
6. Bonesawer
7. Embalmed in Sulphuric Acid
8. Blood Pus & Gastric Juice
9. Suspended Animation
10. A Small Lunch
Tracks 7,8 and 9 Re-recorded & mixed by
George Schwarzenegger November 1992
at Sing Sang Studios, Vienna.
CD 2
Been Caught Buttering
Rehearsals
1. Brainpan Blues
2. Sick Bizarre Defaced Creation
3. Happy Re-Birthday
4. And Only Hunger Remains
5. Games of Humiliation
6. Splatterday Night Fever
7. Sputter Supper
8. S.M.A.S.H.
9. Shrunken & Mummified Bitch
Live
10. For God Your Soul...
For Me Your Flesh
11. Blood Pus & Gastric Juice
12. Dead Body Love
13. Molecular Disembowlment
14. Extreme Deformity
Tracks 1-9 rehearsals for
“Been Caught Buttering”
Tracks 10-14 recorded live in
Tel Aviv, Israel 18.3.92
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