Artist: Anal Cunt

The metal world is slightly less funny now that Anal Cunt frontman Seth Putnam passed away. In the wake of his death, Vice Magazine recently caught up with AC drummer Tim Morse who recalled some humorous tales of the band on the road. Here is my favorite tale from that story: The last show AC ...

Newton, Massachusetts-- a suburb of Boston-- has repeatedly ranked as one of the nation's safest and wealthiest cities of its size. It also happens to be the spawning place of one of the most hilariously diabolical bands in the nation, or even the world, although that ranking may be harder to prove statistically. The village pride of West Newton, Anal Cunt was led by the late vocalist Seth Putnam from 1998 until 2011, with an ever-changing lineup and a hiatus or two along the way. In June, 2011, Putnam died of a heart attack at the age of [...]

You may or may not have been surprised when Seth Putnam passed away over the summer - hard living had already put him into a coma years earlier in what many thought to be a suicide attempt - but if you didn't like what he did musically you're probably gay so whatever. I don't think ...

As we approach the end of yet another year, we find ourselves looking back -- not just at the good (of which next week we'll be discussing plenty of, with the publication of the Thrash Hits Albums Of The Year lists), but the bad. Over the past twelve months, some of our favourite bands decided [...]

With a name like Anal Cunt , there are only a few genres that you can belong to. Noise and grindcore are two solid options, and from 1988 (with a couple of timeouts for various reasons) to frontman Seth Putnam's death in June 2011, the group blended the two into an aggressive, abrasive, confrontational mess that influenced countless bands. Releases like 110 Song CD are really nothing more than walls of screeching, howling sound with occasional ecstatic bursts of silence. There's a more song-oriented side to Anal Cunt (as seen on 20102s Fuckin' A ), but [...]

There are only four relevant releases this week, the signal that we're entering the winter new release slump. 2011 has been a great year for releases, so this is fine by me. Check it out after the jump. Anal Cunt – The Old Testament (Relapse) The first post-mortem release from A.C. is a compilation of [...]

Anal Cunt were never sycophants to good taste - a simple Google search of their song titles will say a lot more than we can. But if you think they were offensive in their heyday, you should hear them when they first started in the late 80s. The late Seth Putnam and his band of musical anarchists weren't relying on provocative titles to make themselves the most hated band in America. Instead, they

Seth Putnam was one of metal's great provocateurs and most colorful personalities. That's why, even if you were never a huge Anal Cunt fan - and I profess, I am grateful to AxCx mostly for serving as my introduction to Scott Hull - Putnam's death this past June feels like a profound loss to the community. [...]

Not Seth Putnam One mind-blowing aspect of Devin Townsend's Deconstruction album is its coterie of guest personnel. A who's-who of pivotal screamers, the list includes that awesome dude from Gojira, legendary super-stud Ihsahn, and extreme metal's loveliest alto, Tommy Rogers from Between The Buried And Me. And though Townsend rightly rushes to downplay the distraction/sketchy [...]

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In a posthumous release, Relapse Records will be putting out a two-disc collection of Anal Cunt's early recordings called The Old Testament on November 22. The double-disc set will feature the "5,643 Song EP", early split releases, the band's first and last demo, and liner notes written by late Anal Cunt frontman Seth Putnam. ""The recordings ...

To explain the brevity of recent updates, my shoulder hurts and it is painful to type. Here is something else short and painful: the deplorable, reprehensible, and entirely notsensible grindcore band Anal Cunt singing about a favoured childhood toy. Ahh, bless. Anal Cunt - Hungry Hungry Hippos (alternate download)

• Anal Cunt - Hungry Hungry Hippos

File under "things I never thought I'd hear:" Anal Cunt covering Buckckcherry. But apparently now-deceased Anal Cunt frontman Seth Putnam (R.I.P.) was actually a huge Buckcherry fan. Check out this January 2011 interview from Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles: Q: Fuckin A' is a straight cock rock glam album… have you always been interested in [...]

A few weeks after the tragic death of Anal Cunt frontman Seth Putnam, Decibel comprised a pretty solid number of big names in metal to pay tribute to the most offensive man in metal. Decibel got touching obits from the likes of Phil Anselmo, Mike Williams of Eyehategod and Scott Hull of Pig Destroyer all ...

Best commercial ever? ANYWAY, here's how we filled our time this week: We mourned the loss of Anal Cunt's Seth Putnam and Sirius XM Liquid Metal's Mario Comesanas. We debuted new music by Intensus and, thanks to Decibel, Wormrot, too! Revocation's Dave Davidson walked us through his live rig, and we spoke to Paul Ryan from Origin [...]

I'll always remember Anal Cunt for being one of the four bands who broke me into the extreme metal underground back in 2006. Anal Cunt, alongside Unearth, Cannibal Corpse and Lamb of God were my four gateway drugs into the harder, edgier side of metal. It was a time when nu metal was no longer played on the radio and KoRn's Take a Look in the Mirro... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

While we continue to mourn the passing of Anal Cunt mainman Seth Putnam, Metal Injection posted the below memo, in which the band instructs the sound guy for whatever venue they were playing that night on just exactly how they'd like their monitors mixed. And it's pretty great. The bit about how vocal levels should be [...]

News While we continue to mourn the passing of Anal Cunt mainman Seth Putnam, Metal Injection posted the below memo, in which the band instructs the sound guy for whatever venue they were playing that night on just exactly how they'd like their monitors mixed. And it's pretty great. The bit about how vocal levels should be [...]

The metal world mourned the loss of Seth Putnam earlier this week, but today comes a screenshot reminding us why we all loved AxCx in the first place. Above is their sound instructions, and it's pretty simple: no soundcheck, mic is very loud, everything else... slightly less loud. RIP Seth! [via Shreddit]

Because two young upstart blogs have put together a few for your listening pleasure. I haven't had a chance to check any of these out myself yet, but, like the headline says, they're free, so it seems worth mentioning, because what have you got to lose, right? Here are the deets: Reader Ross Gnarly runs [...]

Anal Cunt performed at Siberia on April 9, 2011 This weekend, Seth Putnam - ringleader of infamous shock-rock grindcore band Anal Cunt - passed away from an apparent heart attack. A few months ago, we planned to highlight the show they played at Siberia as our Live Pick of the week , but in the process of putting together our write-up, we got cold feet. As we allude to briefly in the original post, we had many concerns that our trying to give extra depth to the hate Putnam [...]