Pungent Stench

Artist: Pungent Stench
Country of origin: Austria
Location: Vienna
Status: Disputed
Formed in: 1988
Years active: 1988-1995, 2001-2007,
Genre: Death Metal
Lyrical themes: Perversion, Molestation, Depravity, Gore, Sick Humour
Current label: Nuclear Blast

Members:
Rector Stench: Drums (1988-1995, 2001-2007)
Don Cochino: Guitars, Vocals (1988-1995, 2001-2007)
El Gore: Bass (2006-2007)

Formed by members from the band Carnage (split-up in 1987) in February 1988. The band split up in 1995 and reunited again in 2001 without Jacek Perkowski.

Three members were also in a band named Los Tres Hombres, which played covers of classic rock and pop songs with death metal twist and only played in Vienna. The only song ever released by this side-project was "Love Hurts" (originally by the Everly Brothers) on the Soulrape compilation.

The members have a side project with Dr Heathen from Mentors.

Due to international and domestic disputes with labels and each other, the band decided to split up in mid-August 2007. Though, El Cochino promised to release the planned album nonetheless, as Pungent Stench or as a new project.

The band was reactivated by Martin Schirenc on his own in August 2013 (along with Danny Vacuum on bass and Mike G. Mayhem (Hollenthon) on drums), using the name The Church of Pungent Stench for live shows to avoid legal trouble. Nevertheless, Alex Wank announced in November 2013 that he considers this reunion neither official nor legitimate and intends to pursue legal action against Schirenc. Full comment: "The attempt of an Pungent Stench member to start this band again and to present it as a "Reunion" is pure nonsense and a fake. Pungent Stench was formed, created & lead by Mr. Stench and nobody else. The goal was reached with the other guy, but that doesn't allow him to "re-form" the band again under the Pungent Stench moniker (or anything related). This attempt was made to cheat the supporters and promoters to make some quick cash and nothing else. By no means I will sit back and see my creation abused - legal action has already been taken. This Church is foul – and this Church will burn! -Mr. Stench/Alex Wank" (source)

The band also collaborated with the notorious Viennese shock rock band Drahdiwaberl on their 1994 album Sperminator with the song 'Madcatmachopsychoromantik'.

Compilation Appearances:
 - "Festered Offals" and "Pungent Stench" on The Pleasures in Life (Nuclear Blast, 1989)
 - "Suspended Animation" (remix) on Death...Is Just the Beginning (Nuclear Blast, 1990)
 - "Suspended Animation" on Ich Zahl' Nicht Mehr! (Steamhammer, 1992)
 - "The Ballad of Mangled Homeboys" on Rock Hard Presents Monsters of Death (R/C, 1992)
 - "Daddy Cruel" on Death...is Just the Beginning II (Nuclear Blast, 1992)
 - "Tony" on Death...is Just the Beginning III (Nuclear Blast, 1994)
 - "Nunsense" on "Death... is Just the Beginning VII" (Nuclear Blast, 1996)

Discography:

  Mucous Secretion (1988) 

Album: Mucous Secretion
Type: Demo
Release date: April 1st, 1988
Catalog ID: N/A
Label: Independent
Format: Cassette, Limited edition (250 Copies)
MP3 | 320Kbps | 15:21 | 35,2Mb

Tracklist:
1. Extreme Deformity  05:14
2. Festered Offals  02:58
3. Pulsating Protoplasm  02:40
4. Pungent Stench  02:27
5. Embalmed in Sulphuric Acid  01:57

Numbered copies.

We took a fucked-up ghetto blaster, placed it in the middle of the floor and just recorded the songs live. After we did these five tracks we were so surprised and satisfied with the sound quality that we decided to release it as our first work under the name Mucous Secretion.

Recorded at Rehearsal Room, Ghettoblaster, Vienna, Austria.

  Pungent Stench / Disharmonic Orchestra (1989)

Album: Pungent Stench / Disharmonic Orchestra
Type: Split
Release date: June 1989
Catalog ID: NB 019
Label: Nuclear Blast
Format: 12" vinyl (33⅓ RPM), Limited edition (1000 Copies)
MP3 | 160Kbps | 30:50 | 37,1Mb

Tracklist:
Disharmonic Orchestra:
1. Dehumanoid  03:25
2. Distorted Mind  02:43
3. Putrid Stench  01:31
4. Shreded Illusion  02:31
5. Compulsorily Screaming  02:23
6. Interposition  02:06
7. Animal Suffocation  01:17

Pungent Stench:
8. Pulsating Protoplasma  02:51
9. Dead Body Love  03:59
10. Miscarriage  02:20
11. In the Vault  02:59
12. Rip You Without Care  03:39

Pressing info:
- pressed on black vinyl.
- 500 copies on green vinyl.
- 250 copies on orange vinyl.

Pungent Stench:
Recorded at Masterplan Studios, Hildesheim, Germany.
According to some old interviews, the Disharmonic Orchestra side was pressed unmixed on the vinyl.

  Extreme Deformity (1989)

Album: Extreme Deformity
Type: EP
Release date: September 9th, 1989
Catalog ID: NB 024
Label: Nuclear Blast
Format: 7" vinyl (33⅓ RPM)
MP3 | 192Kbps | 11:52 | 18Mb

Tracklist:
1. Extreme Deformity  04:06
2. Mucous Secretion  02:53
3. Molecular Disembowelment  05:24

Pressing Info:
- Limited edition in green vinyl with red cover print (500 copies)
- Yellow vinyl with yellow cover print (500 copies)
- Black vinyl with yellow cover print.
- Black vinyl with red cover print.
- Blue vinyl.

"Planned to be released as the second demo cassette. We delayed the release due to our split lp with Disharmonic Orchestra. September '89 we released these three tracks as the 7" ep Extreme Deformity, copied down from an ordinary tape as the master tapes were lost."

Second & third track titles, "Mocus Secretion" & "Molecular Disembowlment", misspelled on back cover & labels.

Recorded at Birdsong Studios, Worcester, England, 8/88.

  For God Your Soul... for Me Your Flesh (1990)

Album: For God Your Soul... for Me Your Flesh
Type: Full-length
Release date: April 9th, 1990
Catalog ID: NB 029 CD
Label: Nuclear Blast
Format: CD
MP3 | 192Kbps | 01:15:07 | 112Mb

Tracklist:
1. Intro / Extreme Deformity  04:51
2. Hypnos  03:09
3. For God Your Soul... for Me Your Flesh  07:04
4. Just Let Me Rot  03:46
5. Pungent Stench  02:33
6. Bonesawer  03:39
7. Embalmed in Sulphuric Acid  02:07
8. Blood, Pus and Gastric Juice  04:25
9. Suspended Animation  04:17
10. A Small Lunch  05:43
11. Pulsating Protoplasma* 02:51
12. Dead Body Love* 03:59
13. Miscarriage* 02:19
14. In the Vault* 02:59
15. Rip You Without Care* 03:40
16. Festered Offals* 02:54
17. Pungent Stench* 02:21
18. Extreme Deformity* 04:04
19. Mucous Secretion* 02:52
20. Molecular Disembowlment* 05:26

Tracks 11-15 were taken from split w/ Disharmonic Orchestra
Tracks 16-17 were taken from The Pleasures In Life v/a compilation
Tracks 18-20 were taken from the Extreme Deformity EP

Recorded and mixed at Masterplan Studios, West-Germany, December 89.

  屍臭 (1991)

Album: 屍臭 (Shisyu EP)
Type: EP
Release date: 1991
Catalog ID: BSR-001
Label: Brandnew Sunshine (Closed)
Format: 7" vinyl (33⅓ RPM), Limited edition Japan (1000 Copies)
MP3 | 256Kbps | 11:39 | 21,3Mb

Tracklist:
1. Daddy Cruel  03:27
2. The Ballad of Mangled Homeboys  03:26
3. Splatterday Night Fever  04:33

Numbered copies.

The song "Daddy Cruel" was included in the Nuclear Blast compilation "Death... Is Just the Beginning II", released in 1992.

The Japanese title of the album roughly translates to 'pungent stench'.

  Been Caught Buttering (1991)

Album: Been Caught Buttering
Type: Full-length
Release date: November 12th, 2001 (1991)
Catalog ID: NB 540-2 / 27361 65402
Label: Nuclear Blast
Format: CD
MP3 | 192Kbps | 44:18 | 66,3Mb

Tracklist:
1. Shrunken and Mummified Bitch  03:48
2. Happy Re-Birthday  03:25
3. Games of Humiliation  05:09
4. S.M.A.S.H.  02:33
5. Brainpan Blues  04:04
6. And Only Hunger Remains  05:56
7. Sputter Supper  03:22
8. Sick Bizarre Defaced Creation  04:13
9. Splatterday Night Fever  04:39
10. Daddy Cruel* 03:33
11. The Ballad of Mangled Homeboys* 03:29

Recorded and mixed at Donnersound Studios, August '91.

  Dirty Rhymes and Psychotronic Beats (1993)

Album: Dirty Rhymes and Psychotronic Beats
Type: EP
Release date: April 1993
Catalog ID: nb078cd
Label: Nuclear Blast
Format: CD, Uncensored version
MP3 | 192Kbps | 33:20 | 45,8Mb

Tracklist:
1. Praise the Names of the Musical Assassins  02:14
2. Viva La Muerte  05:22
3. Why Can the Bodies Fly (Warning cover)  03:50
4. Blood, Pus and Gastric Juice (rare groove-mix)  04:26
5. Horny Little Piggy Bank  04:27
6. Four 'F' Club (Mentors cover)  05:14
7. Blood, Pus and Gastric Juice (tekkno-house-mix)  07:50

"Why Can the Bodies Fly" is a Warning cover song, not a Warp Spasm song. This Warning was from Germany and played in EBM-style. Originally it was a soundtrack on Tatort "Peggy hat Angst" TV series.

Recorded and mixed at Sing Sang Studios, Vienna, November 1992.

  "Club Mondo Bizarre" For Members Only (1994)

Album: "Club Mondo Bizarre" For Members Only
Type: Full-length
Release date: March 6th, 1994
Catalog ID: NB.079-2
Label: Nuclear Blast
Format: CD, censored version
MP3 | 192Kbps | 01:01:23 | 84,4Mb

Tracklist:
1. True Life  05:06
2. Klyster Boogie  04:02
3. Choked Just for a Joke  04:38
4. Hydrocephalus  04:22
5. I'm a Family Man  05:17
6. Treatments of Pain  04:38
7. In Search of the Perfect Torture  05:00
8. Practice Suicide  03:27
9. Fuck Bizarre  03:16
10. Rape - Pagar con la misma moneda  04:14
11. Klyster Boogie (Karaoke Version)* 04:06
12. Hydrocephalus (Karaoke Version)* 04:24
13. Treatments Of Pain (Karaoke Version)* 04:38
14. Rape-Pagar Con La Misma Moneda (Karaoke Version)* 04:14

Censored version with a 4-page booket replacing the sexually explicit foldout poster. The CD face design was also changed on this versión.

Recorded and mixed at Sing Sang Studios, Vienna May/June 1993.
Recorded by Gregoregore Warzenegger.
Mixed and produced by Gregoregore Warzenegger.

  Masters of Moral - Servants of Sin (2001)

Album: Masters of Moral - Servants of Sin
Type: Full-length
Release date: January 4th, 2001
Catalog ID: NB 677-2
Label: Nuclear Blast
Format: CD
MP3 | 192Kbps | 47:18 | 64,9Mb

Tracklist:
1. Loot, Shoot, Electrocute  02:15
2. School's Out Forever  05:29
3. Diary of a Nurse  04:14
4. The Convent of Sin  05:25
5. Rex Paedophilus  03:54
6. Retaliation  04:36
7. Suffer the Little Children to Come unto Me  05:32
8. Viva il Vaticano  05:24
9. Mortuary Love Affair  05:24
10. The Testament of Stench  05:05

Besides the regular booklet which has a lot of band photography and artwork, it does come with an additional eight-page lyrics booklet called 'Book Of Prayer'.

Recorded at House of Music Studios, Winterbach, Germany.

  Ampeauty (2004)

Album: Ampeauty
Type: Full-length
Release date: September 13th, 2004
Catalog ID: NB 1331-2
Label: Nuclear Blast
Format: CD
MP3 | 230Kbps | 57:28 | 96,3Mb

Tracklist:
1. Lynndie (She-Wolf of Abu Ghraib)  06:55
2. Invisible Empire  05:59
3. The Amp Hymn  06:04
4. The Passion of Lucifer  04:49
5. Got Milf?  05:41
6. Human Garbage  05:51
7. Apotemnophiliac  04:06
8. No Guts, No Glory  05:04
9. Same Shit - Different Asshole  04:38
10. Fear the Grand Inquisitor  08:21

Recorded at Vato Loco Studio, Vienna, Austria during May and June 2004.

The bass lines have been done by Martin Schirenc.

  The Pungent Stench Sessions (2010)

Artist: Pungent Stench / Dr. Heathen Scum
Album: The Pungent Stench Sessions
Type: Collaboration
Release date: April 7th, 2010
Catalog ID: N/A
Label: Mentor Records (N/A)
Format: CD-R
MP3 | 192Kbps | 43:57 | 60,4Mb

Tracklist:
1. Hot, Tight, and Wet  04:44
2. Euro Sluts  04:14
3. Can You Smell It?  03:38
4. Operation Desert Slut Storm  04:35
5. I Like to Get Wasted  05:36
6. Rockin' and Maxin'  03:05
7. Backdoor Romeo  03:52
8. Are You Ready for Me?  04:31
9. Screw Ya, Do Ya  05:22
10. Silka  04:20

  Smut Kingdom (2018)

Album: Smut Kingdom
Type: Full-length
Release date: April 13th, 2018
Catalog ID: DISS084CDD
Label: Dissonance Productions
Format: CD
MP3 | 320Kbps | 47:15 | 109Mb

Tracklist:
1. Aztec Holiday  05:00
2. Persona non grata  04:31
3. Devil's Work  04:04
4. Brute  04:39
5. King of Smut  03:22
6. Suicide Bombshell  04:49
7. Opus Dei  05:02
8. I Require Death Sentence  03:34
9. Me Gonzo  03:55
10. Planet of the Dead  08:16

Recorded in late 2006 and early 2007 and roughly mixed during summer 2007 at Vaco Loco, but remained unreleased for 11 years.

Mastered at Outhouse Studios, 2017.

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