Genre: Death metal
Origin: Chile
Released: 2008
Website: Inferis
Label: Old Temple
Uploaded: 05.08.08

This is not the best looking artwork I’ve seen, in fact I’d call it butt ugly. But maybe I’m just not kvlt and trve enough to get it, hehe. Based on that first impression I didn’t have high hopes for the music. So as the intro faded and Nigromantic arts set in I was pleasantly surprised. The American styled death metal is brutally present right from the start, but with a South American atmosphere. You know, it has that typical harshness and roughness for bands of that area. Not surprisingly Inferis hails from Chile.
But just as I was initially thrilled my interest starts to fade after a while. The songs are just too damn long. It’s not a whole lot of death metal acts that can carry the same intensity and brutality throughout seven minutes. Vital Remains managed to do so with Dechristianize, but failed at it with Icons of evil, and so does Inferis.
The sound is raw and rugged, with the guitars leaving the clean slicing behind and going for a more chainsaw splatter approach. What is pleasantly surprising if the audibility of the bass. Most bands just have it lurk in the background. The instrumentation is good, with loads of energy present, and with a rough edge. The same could go for the vocals, as Rodrigo’s deep grunts sound really brutal. The satanic chants are definitely not audible, but slickly delivered.
Fast and chugging, energetic, brutal and raw. But it’s difficult to stay interested in the same tune for too long, eventhough there’s tons of tempo changes. A nice change of pace are the acoustic sections, and the instrumental (and acoustic) Melancholy is just beautiful. The ending track is a re-recording of two tracks from an old demo, and this presents a slightly different approach with a thrashing edge. A good album, but that is difficult to hear in one take.

Tracklist:
01. Creating the infernal pacts
02. Nigromantic arts
03. The suffocating heat
04. Death aroma
05. Carriers of the death
06. Melancholy
07. Descent
08. Destroying the light
09. Die under power of devil’s / master of darkness