Putrid Evocation - Echoes of Death (2014)

   Putrid Evocation debuted in 2013 with rehearsal quality, but promising EP titled as "Blackness Enshroud". Their full-length album "Echoes of Death" followed the same path with slightly better sound that proved to be well fitting to their music by creating a moldy dungeon-like atmosphere.
   Their music wasn't putrid only because of the band name, therefore the atmosphere created by the poor sound quality helped to put that feeling into focus. The band preferred mainly middle speed with common slow downs and short term speed ups. This switching tendency combined with simple, slowly rolling basic themes led to Asphyx-like song compositions, and pushed the music close to the border of death/doom. In case of longer songs, this worked pretty well, and as the album goes on, by the involvement of slow melodic leads the obscure melancholy turns to a very familiar twisted feeling that might strongly remind to old Autopsy. Eventually this impression gets dominant, and like if it was some secret occult ritual, this last component completes the circle to recall a nostalgic aspect of old school death metal. The album is evolving slowly step by step, from a seemingly unimpressive start to a pretty enjoyable outcome, so it's definitely worth it to give some time. Especially for the fans of putrid old school death metal.