PUNGENT STENCH — "Club Mondo Bizarre" for Members Only

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Album · 1994

Tracklist

1. True Life (5:08)
2. Klyster Boogie (4:04)
3. Choked Just for a Joke (4:39)
4. Hydrocephalus (4:23)
5. I'm a Family Man (5:19)
6. Treatments of Pain (4:40)
7. In Search of the Perfect Torture (5:02)
8. Practice Suicide (3:28)
9. Fuck Bizarre (3:17)
10. Rape - pagar con la misma moneda (4:16)
11. Klyster Boogie (instrumental) (4:07)
12. Hydrocephalus (instrumental) (4:25)
13. Treatments of Pain (instrumental) (4:40)
14. Rape - pagar con la misma moneda (instrumental) (4:14)

Total Time: 61:48

Line-up/Musicians

- Rector Stench / Drums
- Pitbull Jack / Bass
- Don Cochino / Guitars, Vocals

Guest/Session:
- Michi Munster / Vocals (backing) on Track 2
- Wolfgang Shalom / Vocals (backing) on Track 2

About this release

Nuclear Blast Records, March 6th, 1994

This is by far their most groove/rock'n'roll influenced album, the vocals remain extreme but the music is almost devoid of actual death metal.

Background vocals on track 2 by The Klyster Boys (Wolfgang Shalom & Michi Munster).

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

Limited version on white vinyl (1000 copies) and l on black vinyl (1875 copies) also released. Both vinyl versions featured gatefold sleeves and all formats made use of different artwork. The fully censored German version used the artwork found on the vinyl versions.

The CD release has four bonus tracks, which are all instrumental versions. They were meant for a contest, where fans could record their own vocals over the songs, send the recordings to the band and label, and they'd choose the winner. The winner would have his contribution released somehow, but it seems their was never a conclusion to this contest:
11. Klyster Boogie [4:06]
12. Hydrocephalus [4:24]
13. Treatments of Pain [4:38]
14. Rape - Pagar con la Misma Modena [4:14]

Thanks to UMUR, Vim Fuego for the updates

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UMUR
"Club Mondo Bizarre - for Members Only" is the 3rd full-length studio album by Austrian extreme metal act Pungent Stench. The album was released through Nuclear Blast Records in March 1994. The vinyl version of the album features 10 tracks while the CD version features 4 additional instrumental versions of tracks from the album. They were originally meant for a competition, where the band asked their fans to send in the most sick vocals they could possibly perform. The most sick and perverted vocal contribution would then be released on a single or as a bonus track on a future Pungent Stench release. I remember reading interviews with the band, where they enthusiastially spoke about the competition, but as far as I know the result of the competition has yet to be released. There are several different cover artworks for "Club Mondo Bizarre - for Members Only" and several of them are censored because of their explicit sexual nature. The original cover artwork is full of pictures of the band wearing S/M gear posing in a S/M club and I guess that´s too much for the authorities in many countries around the world (fortunately not in mine. To each his own I say).

If the cover artwork didn´t give it straight away, the perverted gore themes of previous releases by Pungent Stench are continued here, which is also apparent from reading songtitles like "Klyster Boogie", "In Search of the Perfect Torture" and "Fuck Bizarre". Pungent Stench were never a subtle bunch of guys. Stylistically the band has moved completely into death´n´roll territory. That part of their sound was already introduced on "Been Caught Buttering (1991)" and refined a little more on the "Dirty Rhymes and Psychotronic Beats (1993)" EP, but the transition from their early deathgrind days is now over. Besides the raw semi-growling vocals, you´ll actually find very few death metal elements on "Club Mondo Bizarre - for Members Only". The tracks are based on relatively simple and groove oriented riffs (which are for the most part surprisingly "non groovy" and stiff sounding) and while some tracks deviate from what sounds like a vers/chorus structured format, the tracks aren´t that adventurous when it comes to structure. The band often repeat their ideas too many times during the tracks and as a consequence most tracks feel longer than they are and sometimes they are a bit of a tedious listen. Sure a track like "Klyster Boogie" brings a smile to my face, but I generally don´t smile enough during the playing time and that´s never a good sign.

The sound production is organic, fat, and relatively powerful, and the band are decently playing (without showing anything out of the ordinary). All in all "Club Mondo Bizarre - for Members Only" is a decent album, but I have no problem if there are years between my listens and when I do listen to the album it mostly comes off after a few tracks. At least to me it´s a step down from "Been Caught Buttering (1991)" and a 3 star (60%) rating is warranted.

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