Been Caught Buttering
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Been Caught Buttering is the second album of the Austrian death metal
band Pungent Stench
. It was originally released in 1991 on Nuclear Blast
. The original album art, which depicted two severed, partially decomposed heads kissing (in fact, it is one head which had been sawed in half by Joel-Peter Witkin
), had to be changed for the Australia
n release. The cover art can also be seen as a parody of a famous picture with Leonid Brezhnev
and Erich Honecker
kissing at the celebrations of the 30th birthday of the former German Democratic Republic in 1979.
Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....
band Pungent Stench
Pungent Stench
Pungent Stench was a darkly humorous death metal band from Vienna, Austria, which formed in 1988. Their last known lineup consists of Martin Schirenc , El Gore , and Alex Wank...
. It was originally released in 1991 on Nuclear Blast
Nuclear Blast
Nuclear Blast is an independent record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. The record label was founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Germany. Originally releasing hardcore punk records, the label moved on to releasing albums by melodic...
. The original album art, which depicted two severed, partially decomposed heads kissing (in fact, it is one head which had been sawed in half by Joel-Peter Witkin
Joel-Peter Witkin
Joel-Peter Witkin is an American photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work often deals with such themes as death, corpses , and various outsiders such as dwarfs, transsexuals, hermaphrodites, and physically deformed people...
), had to be changed for the Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n release. The cover art can also be seen as a parody of a famous picture with Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev – 10 November 1982) was the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , presiding over the country from 1964 until his death in 1982. His eighteen-year term as General Secretary was second only to that of Joseph Stalin in...
and Erich Honecker
Erich Honecker
Erich Honecker was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic as General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party from 1971 until 1989, serving as Head of State as well from Willi Stoph's relinquishment of that post in 1976....
kissing at the celebrations of the 30th birthday of the former German Democratic Republic in 1979.
Track listing
- "Shrunken and Mummified Bitch" – 3:50
- "Happy Re-birth Day" – 3:28
- "Games of Humiliation" – 5:12
- "S.M.A.S.H." – 2:36
- "Brainpan Blues" – 4:07
- "And Only Hunger Remains" – 5:58
- "Sputter Supper" – 3:25
- "Sick Bizarre Defaced Creation" – 4:15
- "Splatterday Night Fever" – 4:38