Category: Underground News

|I admit I don’t like extremely much of this demo except for the honesty of calling it an Ep despite the over 25 minute running time. The Cd itself is cheap silver disc but both layout and design are decent enough, save for some evident jpeg loss on the artwork, but for a demo, who can complain. The band comes from the Finnish western town of Kannus (population 5.000!), and it shows – eh – there is even a guy with a Kalevala shirt (which is like seein’ a Greek with an Odissey shirt or an Italian with an Aeneid one). Well I guess it’s some band’s maybe…

Well. First off the Cannibal Holocaust soundtrack intro is maybe a bit too long (just above 2 minutes) – I’d rather listen to the real album by Riz Ortolani than a cheap excerpt if you know what I mean – but the idea is nice. Musicwise speaking, Putrid Whore does not play goregrind despite my expectations. The cover art is pure porn vulgarity and all the porn thing makes one believe it but in general the guitar riffs are mostly bold Brutal Death with some slam and a bunch of accelerations than sludgy sick grind. The vocals are froglike deep with some squeal a la Devourment here and there. Generally quite good. The sound is surprisingly healthy for a product that looks so cheap (xeroxed cover and plan Cd-r support), there is a gross use of photoshop tricks but the overall effect works I believe, that’s the “last minute goregrind” style after all. I didn’t like much the boring humour in tne titles like the parody of Spongebob etc. Really overused IMHO.

One funny but a bit annoying thing is that the tracks of the band are not split in two parts but instead are inserted in intervals, so you get all odd numbers with Putrid Whore and all even ones with Whore Evil. Eh eh. Nice.

|Well. First off the Cannibal Holocaust soundtrack intro is maybe a bit too long (just above 2 minutes) – I’d rather listen to the real album by Riz Ortolani than a cheap excerpt if you know what I mean – but the idea is nice. Musicwise speaking, Putrid Whore does not play goregrind despite my expectations. The cover art is pure porn vulgarity and all the porn thing makes one believe it but in general the guitar riffs are mostly bold Brutal Death with some slam and a bunch of accelerations than sludgy sick grind. The vocals are froglike deep with some squeal a la Devourment here and there. Generally quite good. The sound is surprisingly healthy for a product that looks so cheap (xeroxed cover and plan Cd-r support), there is a gross use of photoshop tricks but the overall effect works I believe, that’s the “last minute goregrind” style after all. I didn’t like much the boring humour in tne titles like the parody of Spongebob etc. Really overused IMHO.