Ampeauty
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| Studio album by Pungent Stench | ||||
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Publication |
2004 |
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| Label (s) | Nuclear Blast | |||
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CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
57 min 28 s |
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Martin Schirenc |
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Ampeauty is the seventh and current album from Viennese death metal band Pungent Stench . It was released in 2004 under the label Nuclear Blast.
Music genre
Musically, Ampeauty differs from its previous album Masters of Moral, Servants of Sin mainly rhythmically. The beat is much slower, machine gun-like riffs and drum passages like in the predecessor can only be found in “The Passion of Lucifer”. Pungent Stench have placed greater emphasis on the typical groove of the last albums, which comes into its own here and lays a rich sound foundation.
Design of the cover
The cover of the album shows a woman dressed in lingerie with her left prosthetic leg lying on the floor in front of her. Her right leg is in some kind of amputation machine and is about to be cut off by a circular saw . Furthermore, her left arm is missing, also amputated. The whole thing is a black and white photograph.
Track list
- Lynndie (She-wolf of Abu-Ghraib) - 6:55
- Invisible Empire - 5:59
- The Amp Hymn - 6:04
- The Passion of Lucifer - 4:49
- Got MILF? - 5:42
- Human Garbage - 5:51
- Apotemnophiliac - 4:06
- No Guts, No Glory - 5:04
- Same Shit - Different Asshole - 4:39
- Fear the Grand Inquisitor - 8:20 am
Meaning of the lyrics
As can be seen from the album title, the album is based on themes that - in different ways - have to do with amputation . As usual for Pungent Stench, the textual content is very detailed, which is why the album is only sold in Germany without the lyrics in the booklet.
Lynndie (She-wolf of Abu Ghraib)
Thematically, the song deals with the former American soldier Lynndie England , who is said to have tortured and ill-treated several Iraqi prisoners in the prison of Abu-Ghraib during the third Gulf War. Pungent Stench combine the Lynndie England scandal with the subject of sadomasochism . The name is an allusion to the film " Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS ".
Invisible Empire
In track number two, Pungent Stench go in search of the ruler of the world and at the same time deal with the related topics of various conspiracy theories and various secret organizations, such as the Knights Templar . The title is based on the name of the Ku Klux Klan .
The Amp Hymn
“The Amp Hymn” is about amelotatism , the sexual inclination towards people with missing limbs. The title is at the heart of the album, which generally deals with amputation and related issues.
The Passion of Lucifer
In “The Passion of Lucifer” the passion of the devil is sung about. However, the song has no satanic background. Pungent Stench describe the devil as a creature who - like God - was invented by humans as a kind of figure of identification. The Beelzebub thus serves as a scapegoat for the atrocities that people perpetrate on people. The devil stands for evil in people and is therefore omnipresent. As in “Fear the Grand Inquisitor”, the church is by no means spared from criticism.
Got MILF?
The title “Got MILF?” Is based on the well-known advertising slogan “Got Milk?”. MILF belongs to the specialist vocabulary of the pornography scene and is the abbreviation for Mom I'd Like to Fuck . This describes a certain fetish for sex with more mature women (mothers).
Apotemnophiliac
Lyrically, the song is the monologue of a man who suffers from apotemnophilia, i.e. who feels a need to have healthy limbs amputated. "Apotemnophiliac" is introduced acoustically with a scene from Hellraiser 2: Hellbound .
No guts, no glory
This track is about a man who - abused as a child by his father - becomes a serial killer and murders helpless women at night. It also describes a certain sexual desire that the man tries to satisfy with his crimes. Lyrically, the piece conveys a kind of Jack-the-Ripper atmosphere.
Fear the Grand Inquisitor
The last and longest piece from Ampeauty tells of Tomás de Torquemada , who was the first and probably the most feared Grand Inquisitor of Aragón ( Spain ). Pungent Stench deals with his atrocities and accompanies the song with scenes from the film The Witch Hunter from Blackmoor .