Genre: Death metal
Origin: Brazil
Released: 2009
Website: Infested Blood
Label: Gormageddon Productions
Uploaded: 18.06.10

I really didn’t like Infested Blood’s previous album Tribute to apocalypse, and I believe I referred to it as “decent suckiness”. And so I wasn’t exactly eager to hear the follow-up, last year’s Interplanar decimation. Although I had read it to be much better than its predecessor I still couldn’t be convinced to even remotely look forward to another go with this Brazilian act. But not only have they fully plunged into sci-fi themes, and left the gory glory behind, they’ve really grown into a force to be reckoned with.
While the production isn’t top notch it’s without a doubt acceptable in means of letting the music show off its qualities. Riff-wise it’s all out technical, and you’ll be hard up trying to spot five seconds that doesn’t have at least one riff variation or tempo change. There are tons of tempo changes, often in a frantic stop and go action that gives the tunes a sense of desperation, in lack of a better word. If the riffing was an entity it would be a truly tormented one, desperately trying to break out into full blown chaos and engulf the world in flaming turmoil. As far as the drumming goes it’s a nonstop, full on stampede of blast beats, but still with a buttload of tempo changes and varying drum patterns. And as the drummer’s busy with blasting, the riffs on the other hand can take on an entirely different tempo. Sure, it’s fast and technical, but set in a more chugging pace instead of the frenzied one the drums take on. But during most of the breaks (one can’t call it breakdowns, seeing as it’s only half a second long most of the time) the guitar and drums meet for a short visit before it takes off again.
It winds up somewhere in between Deeds of Flesh, Decapitation and Origin, but with a slightly harsher and more brutal approach giving it a hint of Amputated Genitals as well as Visceral Bleeding and such similar acts. But not only the music carry those ultra-brutal tendencies, but the vocals as well. The deep, gory and grunting growls are far from the ordinary growls you’ll find in death metal, but that of the most brutal variant. I gotta say, Infested Blood took me completely by surprise here. This tight and technical execution has definitely set them down the right path.

Tracklist:
01. Unearthly menace
02. Sudden black hole
03. Killing through the portals
04. Denizen of the lower planes
05. Menzoberranzan
06. Apocalyptic effigy of chaos
07. Gate to alien dimension
08. Purifying with gore
09. The sentient artifact
10. Psicologia de um vencido