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PUTRED
Blestemul Din Adânc

Iron Fortress (2026)
Rating: 8/10

Romanian gorehounds Putred are becoming a top flight present day death metal act. Their gnarly and grotesque discography has already made waves on the scene and so this new full-length will be more than welcomed by the ravenous fans in the underground.

Emerging just over a year after sophomore slab Megalit al Putrefacției, Blestemul Din Adânc doesn’t feel rushed at all but continues the band’s repulsive legacy. The main ingredient here is the bass; numerous times it has a dominant twang as it works in tandem with the vile down tuned riffs.

The tone is set with ‘Sfâșiat… Stigmatizat’, a truly hideous cut with an oppressive atmosphere in which the main dismal melody slithers through. Pace is not on the agenda with this outing; the combo is more than happy to provide a morbid slugfest that lies across the chest like a heavy damp blanket. Putred has always veered towards the abysmal side of the genre, but this time they’ve plumbed new depths of gore lust and depravity.

This is one of those albums that could be as equally entertaining even without the vocals, and so to have them on top enables the record to squirm in such a filthy manner. Just listen to the clanking percussion on ‘Întâlnirea Mortală’, an absolute deathly tolling that conjures images of clanging churchyard bells echoing through soupy layers of green fog. And then we have the surprising thrashy aspect of ‘Devorat de Întuneric’; the drums and riffs jerky before the shift into murky oozing.

To add extra gloom, Putred, like many other acts of this ilk, just can’t help but pierce the waft of decay with a howling despondent solo. Time and time again such a cry will permeate the cloying, clogging thick mist, almost as if eager to escape the heavy blanket of gloom. Density is key throughout this process; suffocating layers of doom rich ideologies even with the interesting cover of Benediction’s ‘Subconscious Terror’.

Putred revels gleefully in its own silt, lathering up in those rank foaming riffs and bulbous bass qualities. It’s all here, a revolting concoction of putrid menace and cryptal eeriness. But even with such foul traipsing there are busier passages such as with ‘Catacombe Sângerii’, although the guttural bellowing and trudging is Putred’s bread n’ butter, with ‘Cripta Vrăjilor’ a standout for such low level slogging.

Putred continues to bore a wretched path through humanity, and every gore-obsessed death metal maniac will be salivating with glee – myself included.

Neil Arnold

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