The band's main man was Zoltan Valter, the only constant member of it's line-up, who had bigger motivations than what was common amongst local musicians. It's not like Hungarian metal bands didn't play higher quality music before. There have been examples for very promising initations that had the chance to change things even on wider perspectives, but the bands just split up too early and they've never made it until a full-lenght release, or they didn't seem interested in a break through. "Purulent Reality" is stone carved old school death metal at it's best, featured by heavy basic riffings and very catchy lead guitar themes. They preferred the combination of middle speed and longer song lenghts to extend the duration of headbanging compatible themes. Even though the main impression might seem primitive, the album has excellent sound quality, with clearly audible and very enjoyable bass lines. In vocal style the black metal-like cawing became preferable that commonly switches to deep growls. The lyrical concept shows similarity with Death's "Spiritual Healing" and "Human" era (the sound is remindig to that too), that focused on grotesque topics and found their sources in life based events instead of gore and horror influenced fantasies. It's definitely the type of album that didn't intend to experiment, and was made just to enjoy the devastating sound and simple effectiveness death metal on it's finest. But still it offers much more that what might be expected from the surface. Naturally the style didn't require any introduction in the small local scene, but nobody did it before how Sectioned did. The weight and importance of "Purulent Reality" not surprisingly wasn't realized in it's time, and the album would have deserved way more attention.
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