{"id":104973,"date":"2025-06-06T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T23:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=104973"},"modified":"2025-06-10T13:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:36:14","slug":"album-review-putrescent-darkness-embraced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-putrescent-darkness-embraced\/","title":{"rendered":"PUTRESCENT – Darkness Embraced (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

PUTRESCENT
\nDarkness Embraced<\/strong><\/span>
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\nRotted Life (2025)<\/span>
\nRating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The promotional band photo I saw of this Los Angeles, California-based band certainly suggested that Putrescent looked the part: the long hair, macho stance, leather jackets and graveyard setting \u2013 y\u2019know, that classic death metal image from 1990. Dixie Martinez (vocals and guitar), Francisco Tobar (guitar), Demitree Rivera (bass), Abraham Garcia (drums) certainly have previous experience from bands such as Insineratehymn and Sadistic Slaughter, and this shows on what is a ghastly expression.<\/p>\n

Typically gnarly in all aspects of its existence, Darkness Embraced<\/em> offers plenty of familiar extremity from those fast-paced, chilly winds (\u2018Sepulchral Desecration\u2019), hammering percussion (\u2018Darkness Embraced\u2019) and utterly cavernous vocals (\u2018Spectral Sanctum\u2019). But hell, this is one devastating and apocalyptic debut album; even 2023 EP, Inhuman Infestation<\/em><\/a>, couldn\u2019t have prepared me for such a hellish onslaught.<\/p>\n

Now, much of what is delivered is frantic and even generic, but there\u2019s no denying the evil presence of such a record. The drumming on \u2018Putrid Piles Of Human Flesh\u2019 is despicably savage, but the whole tirade from the beginning of the album to the climax of closing track \u2018Inhuman Infestation\u2019 is a thick, scorching torrent spattered with mould and hellfire.<\/p>\n

\u2018Black Ceremony\u2019 is a hideous seeping wreck that begins as a yawning death-doom chasm leaking those mournful guitar chords through black waterfalls of slime. The track maintains its low level churning for some time before the cracks widen and out rush teeming tides of blasphemy. The vocals rumble and moan like foul subterranean tremors, summed up even more so on the morbid oozing of \u2018Obscure Putrescent Growls Of Death\u2019 which spews up some hideous, dragging mid-paced riffage.<\/p>\n

Yeah, you could say that a lot of contemporary death metal sounds like this \u2013 dismal, blustery and vile \u2013 but somehow Putrescent just has the right ingredients. The end result is a monstrous and miasmic slab which smothers you like a damp blanket.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PUTRESCENT Darkness Embraced Rotted Life (2025) Rating: 8\/10 The promotional band photo I saw of this Los Angeles, California-based band certainly suggested that Putrescent looked the part: the long hair, macho stance, leather jackets and graveyard setting \u2013 y\u2019know, that classic death metal image from 1990. Dixie Martinez (vocals and guitar), Francisco Tobar (guitar), Demitree […]<\/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-104973","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\/104973","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=104973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104974,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104973\/revisions\/104974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}