Been Caught Buttering

Pungent Stench | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 12, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Nuclear Blast
• ASIN: B00005R1KP
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #478,802 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Loud, nasty, disgusting fun, January 13, 2003

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JEFF (RI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Been Caught Buttering (Audio CD)

Pungent Stench's "Been Caught Buttering" is a sickening yet hilarious romp through the wilds of early 90s Austrian death metal. This is not a band that takes themselves seriously; they're sort of a grindier philosophical (though not musical) comrade of Autopsy. Fairly simple songs are spiced with a silly take on gore lyricism, musical satire and large doses of good old rock. Some of the better tracks include "Splatterday Night Fever," "Sick, Bizarre, Defaced Creation" (which features a cool funk break that leads into a perfectly hackneyed shred solo) and "Happy Re-Birthday." The cover art is not for those with nervous stomachs. But for morbid-metal heads who like a good time, this is just the record.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BLEEARGH!, August 21, 2006

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Patrick Stott (Rolleston, Canterbury, New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Been Caught Buttering (Audio CD)

This album has the sickest artwork ever, bar none. The picture of two grizzled old men, decapitated and kissing, is the perfect preparation for the audio filth contained within. `Been Caught Buttering' is pure musical perversion of the vilest kind, repulsive and degrading, or porn for deviants, depending on your point of view.

Everything on this album is distorted, from the instruments to the band's view of the world. Guitar, bass and drums merge in a morass of visceral Death Metal sludge, thick and almost impenetrable. There are two gears on this album: high speed, almost tune-free jackhammering, or a mid-paced grooving grind. Schrenk occasionally pulls some odd noises from his guitar in the place of solos, and Alex sometimes hits an extra drum or two, which is about as close as the band ever get to embellishing their music.

This is all about the vocals though. Schrenk gargles and groans his way through the deliciously revolting lyrics. How revolting? Well, "Shrunken And Mummified Bitch" is about, well, shrinking and mummifying a prostitute. "Splatterday Night Fever" graphically explores the putrescent consequences of casual sex. Elsewhere, there's rebirth by crawling through your mother's entrails, mass murder both sick and sexual, cannibalism, and hideous deformity. Most comic of everything on offer is "Sputter Supper". Alex's wife butchers a different neighbour for his supper every evening, including the annoying kid upstairs. Next on the menu is the new janitor.

`Been Caught Buttering' is a good old fashioned, old school piece of Death Metal obscenity. It has no socially redeeming features, zero melody, is rough as hell, and in places, it reeks of rancid gore. It couldn't be much better.

5.0 out of 5 stars Been Caught Buttering, December 26, 2011

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RacheyH - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Been Caught Buttering (Audio CD)

My husband grew up on death and black metal, then one day he became a mature adult. Bad idea. He got rid of a lot of his 80's tapes and now he is back into the same music. He absolutely loved Pungent Stench and begged for it for his birthday. He loves it just as much today. They are terribly loud and the lyrics are down right disgusting. I am so glad I was able to buy a copy as there were not that many made in the first place. They are similar to groups from the Netherlands, but definitely have there own sound and gross lyrics. If you can find a copy and you like European death/black metal you will love it.