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Review: Purtenance - The Rot Within Us
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The Rot Within Us

Label: Xtreem Music
Year released: 2023
Duration: 36:33
Tracks: 8
Genre: Doom/Death

Rating:
4/5


Review online: January 23, 2024
Reviewed by: Luxi Lahtinen
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Purtenance are similar to the other big death metal acts in Finland's first wave of the stuff in that they were around for a brief time and rose to legendary status without getting to really enjoy it in their heyday, but have damn well made up for lost time after the fact, albeit a good bit later than many of their peers. Ironically, what makes them different is their refusal to evolve or change like Convulse or Demigod did, instead acting like a day hasn't passed since Member of Immortal Damnation first came out and simply doing what they have always done best. This remains true for their latest album, The Rot Within Us, which is 8 tracks of the grinding, heavy as fuck death metal they've always made, shining at its darkest when it slows to a spine-chilling doomy crawl as it always has, just a bit better played than before. For some, this dedication to one specific sound may seem like stagnation or laziness, but some bands just want to do one thing, damn it, and Purtenance are among the bands that are good at it as they show blatant disregard to the changing of trends and the basic movement of time, certainly good enough to keep fans like myself loyal over the decades. This won't change minds and was never meant to, it's just another reliable blast of quality Finnish death metal from one of the scene's oldest and grimiest time capsules, and that's all I can really ask of Purtenance.

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