Putrid Offal
Mature Necropsy

It is not everyday you get something from a returning legend in your mailbox, but this is claimed to be just that. French band that quote: “At the very contrary of many young bands playing supposedly old-school stuff with just mimicking gimmicks and an outdated production, Putrid Offal are the genuine essence of a time when Death Metal and Goregrind were still a single thing, even being part of the few ones that CREATED it, along with the likes of Carcass, General Surgery, Necrony, Dead, Pathologist”. Big claims are something we always have to deal with – how come no label manages to write amusing and original press releases?

The songs were written 25 years ago, and it is very audible from what we hear. It sounds outdated and doesn’t differ from other old-school extreme metal with its musty riffs, smattering drums and growly vocals, and the variation isn’t much to say anything about either. It sounds like you can expect from a band with such a name. Short songs, short album with 13 tracks and 30 minutes of music is what you get so they do not bore you with a long album.

So, if you were part of creating a genre and not really releasing anything you can’t be accused of doing something that sounds dated and repetitive? It sounds like everything else in the genre, it is relatively well made for what it is but at the same time we have heard it all before many times and these songs are about 25 years old and they sound like it. I think that this album sounds very dated, and it offers nothing that we haven’t heard before – can it really be a legendary band when their music is nothing of consequence. Well, those who enjoy the genre a lot might find this album interesting and enjoyable.

I find it a tad difficult to write much about albums like this, albums that doesn’t really break any new ground or impress with majestically brilliant music, it is just an album. Mature Necropsy is about as uninteresting as it looks, at least if you are not a massive fan of this kind of music because those fans are the only ones that isn’t bored easily enough to just dismiss the album on sight.

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