1000 Doors

This is the second album from Infested, and the first time I’ve ever encountered them. I wouldn’t have guessed this release to be coming from Permeated Records; it seems to stray from their roster of the goriest, most brutal death metal known to man. Albeit "1000 doors" certainly has its share of brutality, and in all of its weirdness it has tons of complexity as well.

Straight off the bat Infested shows off their talent with one of the greatest opening tracks (or maybe it should just be considered an intro) I’ve heard as of late; quiet, haunting ambience gets abruptly interrupted by insane blasting and wicked technical riffing, only to emanate into "Metaphysical grotesqueries". There’s tons of variation present, and so many unorthodox quirks you have to chalk up to the industrial undertone. Suddenly a track can spastically freeze for a few seconds before the insanity continues. It’s full of such industrial dissonance, and it really adds a fresh touch. While remaining firmly within the death metal genre they also incorporate tons of grindcore, and some hardcore-ish tones. This mixture makes me think of a rather unknown act, that’s only released one album, called Anomalous as well as some Charlie*Adler (another fairly unknown act) feeling. But I guess a more known band to name drop would be Cephalic Carnage, as it does have its similarities (minus the crap said band has produced).

Complex, technical, unorthodox and blasting death metal seems like a fitting description. One track might be straight-forward and extremely brutal technicality, while the next might be a slow heavy hitter, just as the next one might be instrumental. But vocally it’s somewhat metalized hardcore screams (but no way near any crappy metalcore shite, so don’t worry), sounding furiously pissed. A musical adrenaline rush, is what it is, definitely shattering conventional death metal molds, testing to what limits you can actually take the genre. And despite all this they never sound artsy fartsy or go too far, it’s slickly coherent in all its spastic weirdness.

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