Putridity – Morbid Ataraxia (Review)

Putridity are an Italian death metal band this is their fourth album.

Sometimes all you feel like is absolute brutality. Enter Putridity. Morbid Ataraxia is a feast of uncompromising savagery, and it really hits the spot when you’re in a certain mood.

Morbid Ataraxia is an album of furious adrenaline-charged bloodlust. The carnage is omnipresent, in the punishing riffs, the precision of each blast beat, the sickeningly guttural growls; Putridity mean business, and business is good.

The intensity is murderous, and the technicality lethal, but without sacrificing impact. They are enablers, in fact. The songs are a masterclass in sheer brutality; unrelenting killing machines of teeth and blade. There’s nothing nice here, and very little let up in ferocity. There’s no crowd-friendly accessibility, just pure, underground, death metal hyper-aggression.

Great stuff.

My only complaint is the old-school CD-style waste of space noise between where the final song actually ends and the cover of Rotted Divinity by Enmity actually starts. Nobody needs to go back to those painful days. Cutting this out reduces the running time from 36 minutes to 30 minutes.

Other than that dubious choice, Morbid Ataraxia absolutely lays waste.

Definitely one for fans of Brodequin, Defeated Sanity, Deeds of Flesh, Devangelic, Disentomb, Gorgasm, Infecting the Swarm, Stabbing, Relics of Humanity, etc. Don’t miss out.