The crushed heads and dismembered remains of PUTRESCENCE (ex-Head Hits Concrete, Seven Plagues) have been assaulting and mutilating frenzied and degenerate audiences across Canada and the United States since the spring of 2003. Since its initial exhumation from a desolate field near a cement manufacturing plant in Winnipegs north end, the band has sworn vengeance upon the living by launching into a brutal campaign of power drilling stale and grotesque music deep inside craniums and soft, juicy eyeball sockets.
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Releases have been pouring like warm plasma out of an axed up human skull. "Occult Blood and Excrement", the 5 song demo was released in the fall of 2003. A year later in the fall of 2004, "Mangled, Hollowed Out and Vomit-Filled" was regurgitated by No Escape Records. A September 2005 tour of Eastern Canada followed. In late 2005, the band recorded tracks for a split EP with Embalming Theatre.
In 2006, the band released a second full length CD on No Escape Records with the 12" vinyl version on One Percent Records.
In 2007, having added Dennis Mott on 2nd guitar, the band played the Maryland Deathfest, and released a new album for Power It Up Records. "Fatal White Pustules Upon Septic Organs" was supported with appearances at Bloodshed Fest in Holland and Moshfest in Poland as part of the mid-October European Blowtorch Decapitation tour. Over a two and a half week period. Putrescence played numerous countries alongside such bands as Regurgitate, Dead Infection, Extreme Noise Terror, Squash Bowels, Afgrund, Malignant Tumor, Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition, Neuropathia, Gadget and many, many more.
In 2008, the band finished recording new material, appeared on a split 7" with I Die Screaming on Eschaton Industries. The band also took part on a split 7" with Archagathus on Kill Bomb/Rescued from Life Records, out hopefully in 2049. As well, Putrescence released a fourth fourth full length album, "Sledgehammer Holocaust" on October 31st on No Escape Records. A two week tour of Western Canada took place in early November with Impaled and Fuck the Facts.
2009 has seen the band completing a successful jaunt out to Alberta and back. 2009 has also brought the departure of Dennis Mott and the addition of Jay Edwards on guitar. Presently the band is holed up in the basement writing, waiting, and trying to piece together the most extreme tunes the band has put together in six years of existence.
2010 will see the band perform at Maryland Deathfest as well as Obscene Extreme.