Undisputed Grindcore Supremacy

Well the time is almost upon us. My goodness, has it been something like 12 years now since Napalm Death played Winnipeg? I remember it was at the Pyramid, back in my days of wild abandon and experimentation. I had developed a strange habit of removing my slacks and urinating in mosh pits and this last Napalm Death show was no exception to my new found joy in life. Nothing was kicked off my body and several people were pee'd on. There was some NYHC band on the bill that I flipped off all night long and the opening band was some lousy industrial crap from Vancouver. Pretty disappointing! Except for special pee time!

This time, this bill makes sense. It's a night of crust, grind and hardcore as Napalm Death retrn to Winnipeg on Monday, October 17th. IT will be fierce, In addition to us, east Van's MASS GRAVE are coming out to rage. And with locals like TU SUFRES, FLASH OUT and ZERO CAUSE on hand to wreck shit, you know that you are dealing with one of the better extreme band bills of the year.  There are tickets in advance at Into the Music, The Zoo (front desk) and War on Music. I think they are $22 or something like that. Being that this gig is on a Monday night, early doors open at 7:30pm with the first band on at 8:00pm. THe show will be over by 12:30-ish, so working idiots like me can make it in on Tuesday morning. This show is going to rule, so please consider dropped on in and not missing a thing.

See you in line at the bar...-soiled.

Bad Acid Trips, Shitty Shrooms, Fucked Off People and Grindcore mayhem!

The summer of 2011 bulldozes forward and we are thrilled to be a part of the second annual FOUL COPSE FEST. Foul Copse is a DIY punk/grind generator-powered music festival in the middle of the fucking forest. Desolate, scary and thrilling! We will be playing on night 2 on Saturday, August 27th. We will be playing along with Iskra, Six Brew Bantha, No Eulogy, Tu Sufres, Scab Smoker and Egyptian Art Strike. First band on at 7:00pm and we will be on sometime around 9:15. This is going to be wild! Head up Hwy. 6 80 or so clicks past Oak Point before turning East on Hwy. 229 and driving 7 clicks down the dirt road before arriving at PUNKLAND! Bring your own tent, food, cans of beer (no glass), chairs, air horns, and prepare for a weekend of camping and grindcore! Tickets are $20 a day, or stay all weekend for $30! See you there!

Arsonfest 2011

Wow, we had an aweful lot of fun last week playing at the Park Theatre. Thanks a lot to everyone who showed up for what we consider to be a show that was as fucking real as it gets. So glad to see true metalheads out at the Exhumed show who all understand how washed up the "entertainment" was at the MTS Centre that night. You people are swell and we would trust you with the keys to our '06 Chevy Uplander in a heartbeat.

Up next for us is a slot at Arsoneft 2011. We haven't played this thing in a couple of years and we are pleased to partake in the good times. We are scheduled to perform on Saturday, Aug. 6th along with Bloody Phoenix, Haggatha, Archagathus, Enabler, Osk and Wake. Wow. That's fucking cool. Tickets will be available at the door and we suggest that people show up early as we expect this show to reach capacity. Proceeds from the Fest benefit the Pow Wow To Honour Children Affected by Violence, so be sure to come out and support a good time by coming to enjoy a good time. 10pm start time. No booze in or around the venue. Thanks for your understanding.

You Hiss and Moan and You Constantly Groan but You Never Go Away...and That's Because All You Need Is Putrescence

Hey kids! Just got back inside from being totally awesome to mention that we will be playing a gig next Wednesday, July 27th at the Park Theatre with our old pals in gore, Exhumed. Also on the bill are Denver's hydrogrinders' extrordinaire Cephalic Carnage, along with Macabre and Withered. People wasting their time at the Jets Arena can show up to show with a Slayer ticket stub and get half off at the door! Whoooopy!!! Doors are at 7:30pm and we rock the joint at 8:00pm. And it's all ages too! Fackin 'ell! We still have no fucking shirts because we're a go-nowhere band, but if there are any talent scouts from big time record labels reading this, we'll desperately suck any body part you'd like us to. Okay, back to the Party of Radness that we're hanging out at, we'll see you party fucks pool-side at the Park Theatre.

STAY FUCKING BRUTAL...

Summertime is Ugly and Terrible

A late-breaking announcement for the perverts, fiends and junkies...

June 17th: Putrescence, Besieged, Tu Sufres & Flash Out @ Park Theatre 698 Osborne. 7pm, $8.

This show is on a Thursday night. Perfect for getting blacked out drunk, violent and getting us all banned from future Park Theatre shows. I feel very stongly that a garbage can or two might get rattled. Oh the humanity...

I don't think we will have new shirts available in time for this brutal gig. With the impending threat of a postal stike up here, the chances seem slim.

Dawn of the Hatchet Zombie for Christsakes...(fucking grimm!)

Soiled Depends here, reporting live from the confines of the Executive Spa Suite here at Pine Lodge in the Whiteshell region on Manitoba. I'm shaked up here enjoying the in-room jacuzzi with bottles of Gibsons and a "couldn't be fucking arsed" attitude. I am indeed praying that die-hard fans of the Can-rock band Putrescence can appreciate and empathize with the atrocious experience I suffered this morning when I recieved an email from Bruce at Warlord Clothing. It was Bruce advising me that our new shirt design has now gone up over at Bruces' Warlord Clothing website. This news has caused me to update the Shitasti-blog here to notify you all of this reality. This is very gruelling work! Please try to understand. I'm learning poker here at this luxurious resort in order to one day play against "The Kid" from Big Trouble In Little China. I'm in spring training, you could say.

Well we are glad for this development. I've already searched the ice machine downstairs across the hal from the bait shop for one of these shirts and thought I saw one, but it was just more ice from the ice machine. Good grief. Maybe having such high hopes was too much to ask. I might stick my head in my in-room fire place before the end of the night.

Shirt design and purcashe information here: Warlord Clothing

Alright, fuck. Enjoy. Consider a purchase. I'm back to my bottles of Gibson's. Tootles!

Rancid Bludgeoned Flesh Rotting In the Sun

Hey, it's slowly becoming one of our favorite times of the year. When all the dogshit and garbage finally emerges all over the place as snow melts all over the city. It's time for an update on how 2011 is unfolding for us over here.

First off, as you know, we are providing direct support to Nuclear Assault on Saturday, March 26th at the Manitoba Metalfest. Also on the bill are Speak English Or Die (SOD tribute from Quebec) as well as Evil Survives and Besieged. Tickets are available now at War on Music, The Zoo, Into the Music, Park Theatre and online at http://www.ticketworkshop.com/ This show is happening at the Zoo and is 18+ w/ ID.

Up next will be a special performance in support of our good friend Heather Makar. Heather has done a lot of work for the local metal community in Winnipeg and beyond as a top shelf graphic designer. She worked on our demo as well as our first two albums. Recently Heather sustained a serious injury and is currently recovering in the ICU at the Health Sceinces Centre in Winnipeg. We will be joining other friends of hers, including Big Trouble In Little China, Wobachia, Of Human Bondage and Antikathera in a benefit gig in support of Heather, her partner Mike and their family. The show is scheduled for Thursday, April 21st at the Royal Albert Arms. Tickets are $10 in advance at War on Music.

August promises to be a fun month for us. We are confirmed to perform at Arsonfest in Winnipeg, playing along with Bloody Phoenix, Wolbachia, Enabler, Archagathus, Haggatha and many more. Arsonfest is happening on August 5 & 6 in Winnipeg. Additionally, we are confirmed to play at Foul Copse Fest east of Winnipeg. It's an outdoor generator festival in the forest. We are confirmed along with Six Brew Bantha, No Eulogy, Iskra, Contagium and a buttload of others. That is taking palce the weekend of August 26/27. Good times!

There will be other show announcements very shortly as well. Stay tuned for fucksakes and stay fucking stoned.

Putrescence/Archagathus 7" Reviews That We Excavated

In the (probable) event that you had your head up your ass, we released a split 7" with our pals Archagathus last year. We recently dug up a couple of reviews of this release. Before this platter is resigned to obscurity once and for all, we thought we would let you know what Industry Insiders have been saying about this record for months. If you are interested in copies of this, I know that Rescued From Life definately has one or more with your name on it. Presently we are without. That's because we can't keep them in stock. This shit moves fast! Hooray!

Man I started writing a review of this 7'' and it came out totally clinical sounding so I'll just say that this is an awesome grindcore split between two of the coolest bands going in Canada's grindcore capital Winnipeg, Manitoba. Archagathus is straight up old school mincing grind who have a billion splits out, Putrescence is evil as fuck deathgrind who apparently recorded their side of this split in one alcohol drenched day and it turned out to be my favorite thing they've ever put out. This just came out on Killbomb Records out of Vancouver and Rescued From Life from Texas, buy it and support the underground.
-The Process of Weeding Out

I even had a hard time finding a cover image of this one. I contacted the label about this record when I first caught word that it was out, and got no response. The only reason I knew this was out was because I learned about it from the Prince of Mince himself. Putrescence got blackout drunk in the studio before recording their tunes for this. You can expect some gore-tinged death-metal-breath grindcore beast on their side. The Archagathus tracks are from the same session as their material on the Sakatat split, which just happens to be my favorite. If you're unfamiliar with Archagathus, I recommend that you get acquainted with them right now. They are the band that Agathocles wishes they still were. That's right, Archagathus has surpassed their bastard grandfather of a band. -Don't Be Swindle

Chaotic Sound Interview with Soiled Depends

Hi again. Please find enclosed the most recent interview conducted by yours truly on behalf of the entire band. This one is with a zine called Chaotic Sound from Brazil. Please enjoy the hatred and written noise, which is also totally brutal.

1- Cheers Mike, fine? First of all, tell us about the beginning of Putrescence, and difficulties you had along the years...

Yes, Hi Glesio, I am fine. A little sleep deprived but I am well otherwise. As for your question, Winnipeg has a fairly small metal scene. And even smaller amount of bands that aren't terrible. So anyone who plays in a band knows everyone else by sight. I met Shaun and Cory, who had just ended their previous band, Seven Plagues. I was in Head Hits Concrete at the time and I was looking for some action on the side. They were serious about starting something heavy and I was tickled at the idea of singing in a brutal way. We got Jean Louis to jump aboard and that how it started. We have had some issues with a second guitar player over the years, but nothing worth weeping over. We are happy that our most recent boy-toy Jay has decided to play with us. He is devoted to his instrument so it makes the grey skies disappear...hopefully once and for all.

2- Here in Brazil, some bands evolved with gore and splatter have sexist and stupid lyrics, but this is not only here... Some bands have a good sound but the lyrics are poor and ignorant...  A lot of bands have stupid lyrics, being gore splatter or not. What do you think about it?

This is one of the things that doesn’t really go away, does it? It’s sad to see the metal scene conform to some very mainstream values related to sexuality. I think a lot of men out there are absolutely fucking terrified of women and this fear turns into ignorance which allows for the kind of depictions of violence against women that we see. Some days ignorance is hard. That’s when I wish I lived in the cartoon land of Oz with Dorothy, the Scarecrow and the Tin Man. Anywhere but here where I am surrounded with half-assed and piss poor excuses for metal and grind. Look, singing about gore and splatter is an equal opportunity chance for people like us to behave like the emotionally stunted angry children that we are. Sure we might have emotional baggage and didn’t spend enough time on mom’s tit. That doesn’t mean we have to embrace imagery that degrades and abuses women. I find a lot of shitty choices made by uncreative dullards are reflections of a society that doesn’t really offer too much consideration to others.  

3- Here we have a big and tragical problem with drugs. Now the CRACK invades our society and we are having a lot of brutal crimes caused by crack's users. In your land you have this kind of shit problems?

I am sorry to hear of your problems with drugs. Crack came to Winnipeg over a decade ago and it has turned people living in the inner city into zombies. There are also very brutal crimes here that are perpetuated by folks who are dealing with addiction. For the most part, crack is not a part of the metal or punk scene here. It’s fairly easy for middleclass folks to shun it. It’s much more socially acceptable to get shitfaced on booze and to smoke weed all day long here. There isn’t the same stigma associated with those substances, even though we have high rates of drunk driving and whatnot. It’s fucked. We hope people can get the help they need if they are dealing with an addiction, and we know that can be hard to obtain.

4- a new wave of grind gore splatter bands are right now causing a big "explosion" in a very large scale into the underground scene. but some bands, are in this side of the coin for status, or to get more friends and also girlfriends. what you think about it?

In the years I have been playing grindcore and more recently playing gore/deathgrind with Putrescence, I find it mind-shattering to understand what kind of status a person can get playing this garbage. There are only so many Leon Del Meurte and Matt Harvey’s to go around, you know. They are the true OG motherfuckers. The rest of us toil away in total obscurity, farting wet sloppy sounds into some ridiculous 4 track device. We throw it up on myspace and think we’re going to be places? These folks who think that playing this shit-encrusted music need a reality check, as soon as possible. Let’s get over ourselves and realize that since it’s not slick, polished, melodic and safe, no one really gives a toss about it other than the true grind maniacs. I don’t know. Maybe by getting into a van and taking the show on the road is helpful if you want friends or girlfriends. All I know is that nice things can happen to folks who work hard at what they do. Oh look at me, I’m Henry fucking Rollins over here…

5- your albums have always a good art and a good sound quality. Canada has a big and good scene with bands i love, like Dahmer, Disjonctor, Mesrine, Archagathus, Powercup... the scene of Canada is very fucked (in the good meaning). tell us about your scene, favorite bands, gigs, drunkies hehehe...

Thanks for the kind words about our tunes and the art that people do for us. We are fortunate that over the years people have taken an interest in what we do. I think that’s why our releases look the way they do. Which is nice. We have played from British Columbia to Quebec and have seen some good bands and played some fantastic shows. Right now,as far as Canadian bands are concerned, I am into Haggatha, State of Minefields, Tu Sufres, Loutish, Willing Feet, Grotesque Organ Defilement, Wake, Rape Revenge, Vile Intent, No Eulogy, Six Brew Bantha, War Hero, Fear of Tomorrow, Wolbachia, Big Trouble In Little China and anything that fuckin’ Gord Smith is involved in. There is more I could add to this list, but I want to hear tears of neglect hit the floor from the eyeballs of people whose bands didn’t make the cut…

6- What bands you know of our scene of Brazil Mike? Someday you want to play here with us? hehehe.

My favorite band from Brazil is the mighty fucking Mental Horror. “Proclaiming Vengeance” is an all time favorite album of mine. So fucking fast!!! Also, I like Hutt, Sick Terror, (old) Krisiun (ha! They still seem like very nice people!), Deranged Insane, and of corpse, Rot.  I would much like to tour Brazil. We wish we could go there and grind with the sickest bastards around. Maybe one day…

7- The new album split with Neuropathia is very good, like all your stuffs. What you are planning to release after this great split album?

Well thank you for saying so. We got blasted right off that damn thing. Neuropathia are very good. Those guys are nuts. I’m glad it came out. I’m not sure what happens next.  We have a lot of songs that are not recorded right now. I think we will end up doing another LP/CD. There is no rush at the moment.

8 - dude, thanx for spending time answering this shit to me and for have patience to read my poor english, sorry. say here all you want, the space is yours!

English doesn’t count. I hope the translation into Portuguese goes well for you. I wish you all the best in your future and thank you very much for taking the time to get in touch. We are fucking fed up with myspace and so we ask for people to look for us at www.putrescence666.blogspot.com

It’s brand new and we will be adding things like this interview right away. Thanks Glesio!

Holy Jesus of Nazareth. Fuck A Myspace

Greetings friends, old and new. Welcome to the brand new and completely official online presence for the Winnipeg, Manitoba-based band PUTRESCENCE. We are a five piece deathgrind band that has been haunting the living since the spring of 2003.

Recently as a result of some fundamentally idiotic decisions by the soon to be unemployed idiots at Rupert Murdoch's failed aquisition known as Myspace, the time has come to release ourselves from the hordes of brain dead dullards that are now free to shamble across the site like drooling idiots. It's officially too painful to call Myspace home. Things had been bad, but then they got really bad just over six weeks ago. The interface is now simply too horrible to look at. And that goddamn picture of the Black Eyed Peas...what the fuck...shoot me in the face, please.

We come here in the hopes of being able to have more control over what happens when we log onto our own site. Here we hope to return to the care-free days of better times when there were more controls available that might keep spamming assholes at bay.

This is but a test entry. The plan is to slowly add content to the extent that is possible so that you, our beloved guest, may obtain the information that you seek from us, whether it be a l'il ditty to tap your feet to, or the location of an obscure band factoid that will help you win that bet that you wagered against your step-mother.

Perhaps like us, you are not fond of change. up until recently, we had a very nice site designed for us by a good friend. Now, like so many other sites at myspace, the interface changed and wrecked it. The promise of a clean, minimal design here is exciting and we are concerned about losing parts of our own history. Interviews we did. Photos that were taken. As un-thrilled with change as we are, we do look forward to adding all the important details (favorite colours, future goals, dink sizes etc) to make this a nice place to visit for shitsucking deathgrind fuckholes for Satan.

Thanks a lot for stopping by our new joint. We appreciate it and hope you come back soon..