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Praise the Names of the Musical Assassins

Praise the Names of the Musical Assassins is a compilation album of "rare and unreleased material"[1] by Austrian death metal band Pungent Stench. It was originally released in 1997 through Nuclear Blast, two years after the band had split-up.[3] The album, "which collected all the rare and unreleased Pungent Stench material available,"[3] contains tracks from the band's early demo tapes, Mucous Secretion, and Extreme Deformity, which was released as the group's first EP in 1989.[4] These "infamous" demos, along with a split-LP with Disharmonic Orchestra, caused a considerable amount of interest in the group, eventually leading them to sign a record deal with German label Nuclear Blast.[4]

Praise the Names of the Musical Assassins
Compilation album by
Pungent Stench
Released1997
RecordedApril 1988 – October 1993
GenreDeath metal
Length69:12
LabelNuclear Blast
Pungent Stench chronology
Club Mondo Bizarre - For Members Only
(1994) 		Praise the Names of the Musical Assassins
(1997) 		Masters of Moral, Servants of Sin
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Chronicles of Chaos(9/10)[2]

The compilation comes in special packaging, which consists of a black box with the CD and a 24-page booklet containing all of Pungent Stench's releases, live shows and photos of the band that were taken from around the world.[2] By this package, Jason Birchmeier of Allmusic praised the release stating, "Well packaged, Praise the Names of the Musical Assassins effectively sums up the group's early days when they were strictly a 'brutal splatter metal' group, before they would eventually slow down their music and write songs about sex rather than gore."[1] Birchmeier also defined Praise the Names of the Musical Assassins as a "suitable retrospective for one of the most notorious death metal bands of the 1990s."[4]

Adam Wasylyk of Chronicles of Chaos webzine, gave the album a rating of 9 out of 10, stating that "Praise the Names of the Musical Assassins is composed of hard-to-find, rare and compilation tracks to serve almost as a 'best of,' a quality remembrance to one of Nuclear Blast's better bands."[2]

Track listing edit

All songs were written by Pungent Stench.

  1. "Pulsating Protoplasma" – 2:51
  2. "Dead Body Love" – 4:00
  3. "Miscarriage" – 2:20
  4. "In the Vault" – 3:00
  5. "Rip You without Care" – 3:40
  6. "Festered Offals" – 2:54
  7. "Pungent Stench" – 2:20
  8. "Extreme Deformity" – 4:05
  9. "Mucous Secretion" – 2:53
  10. "Molecular Disembowelment" – 5:26
  11. "The Ballad of the Mangled Homeboys" – 3:30
  12. "Daddy Cruel" – 3:32
  13. "Tony" – 4:05
  14. "Madcatmachopsychoromantik" – 9:15
  15. "Extreme Deformity" – 5:15
  16. "Festered Offals" – 2:59
  17. "Pulsating Protoplasma" – 2:41
  18. "Pungent Stench" – 2:28
  19. "Embalmed in Sulphuric Acid" – 1:58

Tracks 1–5 were taken from the split-LP with Disharmonic Orchestra; tracks 8–10 were taken from the Extreme Deformity 7-inch EP; tracks 6–7 and 11–14 were taken from various compilation appearances; tracks 15–19 were taken from the Mucous Secretion demo.

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Birchmeier, Jason. "Praise the Names of the Musical Assassins - Review". Allmusic. Macrovision. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
  2. ^ a b c Wasylyk, Adam (10 March 1998). "Pungent Stench - Praise the Names of the Musical Assassins, Review". Chronicles of Chaos. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
  3. ^ a b Schwarz, Paul (14 January 2002). "Vomit to Vanquish the Vatican". Chronicles of Chaos. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
  4. ^ a b c Birchmeier, Jason. "Pungent Stench - Biography". Allmusic. Macrovision. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
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