{"id":101153,"date":"2023-07-21T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T23:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=101153"},"modified":"2023-08-03T12:32:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T11:32:09","slug":"ep-review-putrescent-inhuman-infestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-putrescent-inhuman-infestation\/","title":{"rendered":"PUTRESCENT &#8211; Inhuman Infestation EP (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>PUTRESCENT<br \/>Inhuman Infestation EP<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" height=\"3\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"title3\"><span style=\"color: #c80000;\">Rotted Life (2023)<\/span><br \/><strong>Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedright\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/putrescent_inhumaninfestationep.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"right\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Inhuman Infestation<\/em> is the debut EP from Los Angeles, California-based band Putrescent, a miserable quartet that has conjured up one of my favourite releases of the year so far.<\/p>\n<p>Guttural, grim, and doomy, the opening track \u2018Obscure Putrescent Growls Of Death\u2019 sums up what the sound is; a macabre dredging drool of dense riffage that oozes like sewage, and dense percussive thuds that run in silted combat with mouldy bass lines. The whole slogging horror is dragged further into those repugnant swamps by the sick, slurping vocals. Speedier segments emerge with a sound akin to one\u2019s own bowels being excreted and flushed. \u2018Sepulchral Desecration\u2019 combines further flurries of fermented gore with slower, clogging bulbousness.<\/p>\n<p><em>Inhuman Infestation<\/em> is an EP that drips with a foul, congealed brilliance, remaining gloomy and gloopy as if each putrid chord is strained through a sieve to reveal clotted lumps. Succumb to a session with Putrescent and your eyeballs will leak sediment, your mouth will ooze with lung syrup and your ears will turn inwards into your mashed brain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUTRESCENTInhuman Infestation EP Rotted Life (2023)Rating: 8.5\/10 Inhuman Infestation is the debut EP from Los Angeles, California-based band Putrescent, a miserable quartet that has conjured up one of my favourite releases of the year so far. Guttural, grim, and doomy, the opening track \u2018Obscure Putrescent Growls Of Death\u2019 sums up what the sound is; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5457],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-putrescent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101154,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101153\/revisions\/101154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}