AN NCS PREMIERE: PUTRED — “DEVORAT DE ÎNTUNERIC”

Jan 162026

(written by Islander)

Almost one year ago we published our contributor Zoltar’s very insightful interview of veteran guitarist Uriel Aguillon, riff-writer of the Romanian death metal band Putred. The discussion included this revealing Q&A:

Do you think that Putred would have sounded different if you hadn’t been born in the first half of the ’70s, and thus had the chance to catch the whole death metal boom when it all started?

Absolutely! I’ve been in the metal underground since the mid ’80s and it is what I know how to do, it comes naturally, and I couldn’t continue listening to new stuff after 1996, so I got stuck in the past for good. Putred is old rusted murky and filthy rotting death metal based in that feeling/mood rather than anything else.

This is an honest claim, and an accurate one when it comes to the music of these Transylvanian ghouls. One year ago Putred had just launched their second album Megalit al putrefacției, and this year they’re returning with a new album titled Blestemul din Adânc that’s set for release in March by a trio of conspiring labels. What we’ve got for you today is a visualizer premiere for the record’s first single, “Devorat de Întuneric“.

Based on the paragraphs above, this new single doesn’t begin as you might expect. It includes spoken words that sound like a strange radio transmission, and around them it includes slow streams of ethereal and haunting melody that conjure visions of evanescing ghosts lost in their own sorrow.

But soon enough Putred get in gear, inflicting viciously gnawing riffage with an ugly tone and a savagely charging pulse, and they back that with vividly clattering (and occasionally steady) beats, as well as grotesque guttural growls.

The riffing also begins to putridly ooze, like the sonic slime of a crawling corpse, and to gruesomely lurch, accented by freakishly quivering and miserably slithering guitar solos. It’s a simultaneously blood-letting and blood-congealing experience, and in the riffing fattened maggots also seem to writhe.

In short, this is pure death metal horror, authentically sadistic and sickening but highly capable of dominating your reptile brain. Listen:

PUTRED’S LINE-UP:
Filip – Vocals
Uriel – Guitars
Corina – Bass Guitar
Denis – Guitars
Ficus – Drums

Blestemul din Adânc has a worldwide release date of March 20th. It will be available on 12″ vinyl LP via Futhark Records (Canada), on cassette tape through Iron Fortress Records (USA), and on CD from Awakening Records (China). Check the links below for more release info and order opportunities.

FUTHARK RECORDS:
https://futharkrecords.com

IRON FORTRESS RECORDS:
https://www.ironfortressrecords.com
https://ironfortressrecords.bandcamp.com

AWAKENING RECORDS:
https://awakeningrecordscn.bandcamp.com

PUTRED:
https://linktr.ee/putred
https://putred.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/metalputredalmortii