{"id":97844,"date":"2023-02-03T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=97844"},"modified":"2023-02-06T18:42:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T18:42:58","slug":"album-review-putrid-fate-visions-of-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-putrid-fate-visions-of-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"PUTRID FATE – Visions Of Horror (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

PUTRID FATE
Visions Of Horror<\/strong><\/span>
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\nMacho (2023)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Channelling the likes of Mortician, Scottish one-man act Putrid Fate serves up its debut full-length as if it were a slab of festering human meat slapped onto a table of maggots to be consumed by deranged cannibals. Rory MacAulay is one of the talented up and coming musicians within the Scottish scene and who, alongside acts like BrainBath, Rancid Cadaver and Gouger, is responsible for some of the juiciest death metal around right now.<\/p>\n

MacAulay came to my attention in 2022 with his decent Feast On Flesh<\/em><\/a> EP; a raw, at times naive yet burgeoning release littered with horror movie samples and driven by a grinding, and at times frantic old school death metal energy. Visions Of Horror<\/em> follows similar themes to the EP but with extra sludge, slop and congealed brutality as MacAulay takes us on a grisly journey through ten macabre soundtracks, all of which are daubed in that nasty, chunky guitar tone which buzzes like a rotting corpse swarming with hectic flies.<\/p>\n

For me, the album really comes into its own on those slow murky numbers, which ooze and fester like a peat bog consisting of hardened bone marrow, soupy vomit, clotted blood and flayed flesh. The melancholic, trudging \u2018Living Dead\u2019 and chugging pustular rankness of \u2018Dead And Buried\u2019 are prime examples of how MacAulay superbly taps into that gnawing, aching fustiness; also showcased on the mid-section of \u2018Final Destination\u2019 which is a gnashing, mid-tempo furnace of putridity.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, there are plenty of faster, more aggressive blasts of grimness such as \u2018Confessions Of A Necrophile\u2019 and \u2018Wrath\u2019, but all the tracks are quite happy to shift from suffocating slime to pacier outbursts. Everything about this album feels thick, cloying and dense, and I\u2019m always a sucker to hear albums littered with horror movie samples \u2013 \u2018Freudstein\u2019 and \u2018Death By Stereo\u2019, just two examples of such nostalgia and atmosphere.<\/p>\n

Although I enjoyed MacAulay\u2019s debut EP there is clearly a marked improvement on this one. When I interviewed him as part of my Scottish death metal scene report (Scottish Sickness<\/a>) he was fully aware not only of his limitations, but as to how he could better himself with future releases. Visions Of Horror<\/em> is testimony to Rory\u2019s perseverance and I have to say I\u2019m proud of what he is achieving within the death metal genre. I can\u2019t wait for the next instalment, but for now I\u2019m quite happy chewing on the fat of this heaving heap of entrails.<\/p>\n

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

PUTRID FATEVisions Of Horror Macho (2023)Rating: 8\/10 Channelling the likes of Mortician, Scottish one-man act Putrid Fate serves up its debut full-length as if it were a slab of festering human meat slapped onto a table of maggots to be consumed by deranged cannibals. Rory MacAulay is one of the talented up and coming musicians […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4767],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-putrid-fate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97844","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=97844"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97848,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97844\/revisions\/97848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}