Infester – To The Depths, In Degradation (1994)

November 10, 2024

It is perhaps hard to justify the fervour that this album drums up, without placing yourself back at its time of release. Nowadays, fans of this kind of music have been exposed to all kinds of slow and disgusting death metal, but that’s not to say that Infester does not still stand head and shoulders over the rest of it.

Notice that I’ve not used the terms “doom” or “death doom”; the Infester full-length is very viscerally pure death metal, only it is death metal that is not afraid to slow down to hit home on the nastiness now and then. The production is subterranean, which goes a long way in hammering home these compositions of degradation. 

This is on the “essential listening” path in the extreme fringes of metal for a very good reason.