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- Band(s): Grave Infestation
- Label(s): Dark Descent Records, Invictus Productions
- Release Format(s): Cassette, CD
- Release Year: 2025
- Review Date: March 24, 2025
- Author(s): Brione McGuinness
Not much has changed since Grave Infestation were last reviewed on VM Underground except for the fact that they have returned with their new album ‘Carnage Gathers’, an explosion of necro-sounding, old school yet new energy Death Metal. Invictus Productions really got it right when it came to releasing this album as the pure power that surges through the riffs in this album takes the listener through individual and unique tales of death.
When it comes to current Death Metal bands, we can find countless groups that try to pull off the old-school sound but fall short in one way or another, yet this is not the case for Grave Infestation. This is Death Metal in its purest form, dirty, raw and unrelenting, casting the listener into tales of death and dismemberment with their morbid lyrics combined with vicious guitar playing, highly reminiscent of the likes of Autopsy and Dismember.
The album opens with ‘Living Inhumation’, an opening track that sets the tone of this album, after its eerie intro we plunge into the depths of chromatic riffing and unorthodox lead guitar playing. This theme continues throughout the record as the necro sounding guitar tones lead us through crushing tracks such as ‘Black Widow’ and ‘Drenched in Blood’. ‘The Anthropophagus’ is the most fascinating track on the record in my opinion as we are guided through a tale of a French 17th century cannibal hermit who feeds on the local inhabitants. As we can obviously see the artwork is very inspired from this tale, yet it still manages to capture the entire feel of the record in doing so.
To conclude, this record does not reinvent the wheel yet that is the beauty of it, in my opinion it gives us what a lot of Death Metal releases have been missing in the past couple of years, raw and pure aggression in both sound in every aspect of the record. For all fans of Master, Entombed and Bolt Thrower I would say to look no further than Grave Infestations latest release, i assure you, it does not disappoint.
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Dark Descent Records
- Country: USA
- Style: Black Metal, Death Metal
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