30 Years Ago: PUNGENT STENCH release Been Caught Buttering

Daily Noise - / 2021

30 Years Ago: PUNGENT STENCH release Been Caught Buttering

We never had any goals while writing music - it just came naturally and we tried to think outside the box. That's why you hear influences from 70's rock to doom metal on this album. The recordings were even more chaotic than on "For God...", because we booked a studio in Austria, that wasn't even ready, when we started the session, so we quickly had to find a substitute. Once we found another studio, we started recording and ran into tons of technical problems, since the equipment was rather old and not so well maintained. We also didn't have an engineer, so it was DIY again. With all these difficulties, it's really surprising that this became our best selling album.

Martin Schirenc / Pungent Stench interview, Tough Riffs, 2016

PUNGENT STENCH released their second LP, Been Caught Buttering, on this day in 1991 through Nuclear Blast.

He's a Viennese artist [the "Shrunken And Mummified Bitch" video butcher] who used to hang out at the record store Alex and I worked at, so we asked him to star in our video. He turned out to be a great choice, as he played his role very convincing, because he enjoyed "molesting" the female actors, a lot! The script was written by the director of the clip and filmed at several locations. I wasn't even present when they shot the forrest scenes and most of the dungeon parts, so I can't share any interesting stories about this. The "Sick Bizarre..." clip is just some live footage and put together by the same guys.

Martin Schirenc / Pungent Stench interview, Tough Riffs, 2016