Home to the now-defunct Jets of the National Hockey League, Winnie The Pooh, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Crash Test Dummies, The Guess Who and -40 degree winters, Winnipeg seems like the last place in the world you’d be likely to find one of the most demented gore acts in the world. Of course when you stop and think that Winnipeg is also home to Swallowing Shit, Roddy Piper, Joe Doerksen, Chris Jericho and Propaghandi it doesn’t sound so far fetched that musicians from the city could be warped enough to produce 2004’s sloppy goregrind masterpiece Mangled, Hollowed Out And Vomit Filled.

Putrescence have returned once again to follow-up their debut full length with 2006’s Dawn Of The Necrofecalizer. While Mangled, Hollowed Out And Vomit Filled was filled with simplistic riffs and patterns and a rougher-than-no name brand-toilet paper production, Dawn Of The Necrofecalizer has a lot of big stylistic and production changes. The raw production has been replaced by a much cleaner sound making every note easier to distinguish. The music, while still deeply entrenched in gore, contains a lot more death metal elements with a lot more thought put into the song writing process and overall song structure.

I was a little disappointed when I first listened to the new effort and heard the improvement in the production, as gore tends to sound better "raw", but after a few listens I found myself really digging the clarity of the material. Stylistically the material is somewhere between old school death metal in the vein of Hideous Mangleus fused with Exhumed and Eurogore (ie. Dead Infection, Suppository).

The vocals are rough sounding similar to a throat cancer patient coughing up a lung. The riffing is still relatively simplistic although there are moments where it gets a little more technical and have more of a brutal death metal vibe to them. The drumming is solid and accompanies the music well. The song structure, however, is hit and miss.

While Mangled, Hollowed Out And Vomit Filled was an album I could listen to again and again due to it’s simplistically sadistic sound, Dawn Of The Necrofecalizer does leave me feeling a little bored at times as it seems the band didn’t put enough emphasis on changing the song structures from track to track, as everything starts sounding the same pretty quickly.

While I appreciate the band’s efforts to branch outwards and progress, and there are a few decent tracks on this album, overall they fell a little short this time around. As much as I want to love this album, I just don’t find myself having any desire to listen to this CD very often which is really surprising considering the 100+ times I’ve listened to the debut. Hopefully the next album will be as catchy as the first.

Written By: Teufel