PUNGENT STENCH
Been Caught Buttering DCD JEWELCASE

CD 1
Been Caught Buttering
01. Shrunken and Mummified Bitch
02. Happy Re-birthday
03. Games of Humiliation
04. S.M.A.S.H.
05. Brainpan Blues
06. And Only Hunger Remains
07. Sputter Supper
08. Sick Bizarre Defaced Creation
09. Splatterday Night Fever
10. The Ballad of Mangled Homeboys *
11. Daddy Cruel *
* CD bonustracks

CD 2
Live at Rockhaus,
Vienna 18.5.1991
01. Extreme Deformity
02. Hypnos
03. Dead Body Love
04. Suspended Animation/ For God Your Soul
05. Mucous Secretion
06. Bonesawer
07. Just Let Me Rot
08. In the Vault/ Rip You Without Care
09. A Small Lunch
10. Molecular Disembowelment
11. Pungent Stench
12. Paradise City

Pungent Stench’s 1991 underground Death Metal classic album remastered!
“Been Caught Buttering” achieves greatness not by expanding upon or pushing forward the Death Metal genre, but by distilling it. Here is death metal embodied: buzzsaw
guitars threaten to slice through limb, drums are hit with the precision and care of a killer clubbing his victim, the bass throbs underneath like the pulse of some monstrous beast,
solos rip through the din without warning, depraved tales are recited in a maniacal bark, and everything is sloshed in terrible, fetid grime. As far as ruthless, muck-encrusted
death, its only rival is “Mental Funeral” by Autopsy. This is elemental, admirable for its purity of vision.
As definitive as this sophomore album is, it’s also unique, both in Pungent Stench’s discography and in Death Metal as a whole. Nothing is quite like it, which is hinted at before
you even hear it. Joel-Peter Witkin returns as cover artist, with the piece “The Kiss”, a photograph of a cadaver head split down the middle and the two halves laid side by side
as if caught in an amorous embrace. Witkin’s work is suitably repulsive, but with enough artistry to elevate it above the legions of goregrind covers created.
Musically, there’s an undercurrent of Rock. Unlike Death ‘N’ Roll bands (such as Pungent Stench became on their subsequent album) who make rock music with Death Metal
trappings, “Been Caught Buttering” bends and contorts rock to fit within its twisted framework. Just as the cover takes a familiar and innocent image and perverts it into something
dreadful, the band employ well-worn tropes to devious ends.
The Pungent Stench discography is very diverse in its quality. There are other high points, but none to match this, not that one could reasonably expect a band to attain this
quality once, let alone multiple times. When asked what this death metal thing is about, our answer is simply to play “Been Caught Buttering”. If you worship at the altars of
ungodly splatter, if you regularly have sonic sewage oozing from your headphones and your buttering has as of yet gone undetected, it’s high time you get yourself caught.

Line-up:
Alex Wank - Drums
Martin Schirenc - Guitars, vocals
Jacek Perkowski - Bass