PUNGENT STENCH - Been Caught Buttering (new LP; not sealed) (2026 Hammerheart Re-issue) on 140gram Black vinyl comes w/4 page booklet full of pictures, awesome fold-out poster w/red text, liner notes & lyrics
 
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: buzz saw 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. 
 
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. 
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.  -- Hammerheart Records – HHR 2026-02
 
• Classic Death Metal album from the golden early 90’s.
• Famous cover artwork made by Joel-Peter Witkin (o.a. Pixies, Devourment)
• Recorded and mixed at Donnersound Studio in August 1991
• Remastered by Erwin Hermsen at Toneshed Studio (Trouble, Master, Pestilence, Therion, Legion of the Damned, Sinister)
• Artwork faithfully restored to the original pressing

For fans of: Carcass, Slaughter, Autopsy, Repulsion, Macabre, Hellhammer, Impetigo