Exclusive Track Premiere: Putridity’s “In Disgust They Shine”
Shimmering like adipocere in the hot, dying sun.
On June 27th, Italian brutal death metal legends Putridity will release their fourth full-length Morbid Ataraxia via the esteemed Willowtip Records. The band’s first LP since 2015’s highly venerated Ignominious Atonement, Morbid Ataraxia finds Ciccio & Co. exploring “the oxymoronic nature of humanity” through vertebrae-chopping blasts and scum-chunked riffs that deform and reform at a breakneck pace. The sense of unconditional tranquility–the band’s own form of ataraxia–can only be found in a reckless, mocking disregard for the listener’s wellbeing.
Today, we’re stoked to premiere the album’s second single “In Disgust They Shine.” Following as it does lead single “Mors Mater Nostra,” this newest single builds up and out of the Divine quote that ends the previous track. “Kill everyone now! Condone first-degree murder! Advocate cannibalism! Eat shit!” Babs Johnson pronounces proudly in perhaps the most famous scene of John Waters’ 1972 Pink Flamingo. Babs’ own politics of filth certainly inform the filth-osophy of Putridity, a band most comfortable when celebrating the bawdy, ribald, and obscene. While “In Disgust They Shine” has brief moments of slowed-down groove and haywire mosh riffs, mostly the band cannot countenance anything other than raucous avalanche of staggering speed, jagged stop-start juts, and blaring pinch harmonics. It’s a breathless, cacophonous whirlwind of brutal death metal that will have fans of Brodequin, Suffocation, and Defeated Sanity–to say nothing of Putridity’s earlier works–slavering bloody splittle all over their baby bibs.
Working with the same lineup that recorded 2023’s return-to-the-old-ways Greedy Gory Gluttony, Putridity have crafted a delightfully vulgar affair with Morbid Ataraxia. It is, of course, one of the great oxymorons in music that brutal death metal played this well can be such easy listening. Just wait until you hear the re-recorded “Adipocere Retribution,” soon-to-be fan-favourite “Molten Mirrors of the Subjugated,” or the album’s titular track. Everything is tight, sharp, and compact, running along at a frightful pace and keeping the listener enthralled. Don’t look askance, either, at the run time of closer “Immersed in the Smell of Death.” Intrepid listeners might just find something to like at the end of Putridity’s griseous and gristled rainbow.
Until then, slake your thirst on “In Disgust They Shine.”
Morbid Ataraxia arrives June 27
via Willowtip Records.
You will find peace, comfort, and solace
in its ferocity.
(Yes, that is a vagina.)
