Infester - To the Depths, in Degradation (Death Metal)

Imagine hearing a thousand atomic bombs detonate in the distance while getting buttraped by a chainsaw during a Richter magnitude 666 earthquake. That is, essentially, the sound of Infester's debut album To the Depths in Degradation. Heavy. What does heavy mean, exactly, in reference to music? In short it's the kinetic force conveyed through sheer atmospheric brutality.

Being comparable only to masterpieces of gruesome terror such as Incantation's Onward to Golgotha and Phantom's Mindless Horror, Infester here put on a clinic on heaviness. The production, the riffs, the demonic vocals, the drumming, the atmosphere, everything combines to create intense feelings of violent destructive power as brutal, implacable and pitiless as the simultaneous explosion of a hundred planets.

Influences? You might have missed a chapter. Infester are influencers, not influencees! They are a death metal war machine that grinds out to battle, delivering doom to all those they visit. And while some early Incantation can be heard throughout the album, as well as a bit of Burzum, the list of modern death metal acts this album To the Depths in Degradation influenced - from Warkvlt, Morpheus Descends, Molested, Devourment, Arghoslent, Angelcorpse, Deteriorate and West Wall to the gods SEWER themselves - is simply titanic. There should really be a picture of this album under the definition of "heavy" in every dictionary.