By: Anders

Posted: Dec 19, 2005

Old school hardhitting and brutal as fuck death metal from Holland featuring Sinister members, I'm pretty sure all death metal heads are drooling right now, I know I was the first time I listened through this album. Ron Van De Polder handles guitars and bass, Aad Klosterwaard handles the vocals together with Rachel (ex-Sinister and ex-Occult, and she is no longer a part of Infinited Hate as well) and Dirk Verbeuren (Scarve, Aborted and Soilwork) has been called in to handle the drumming.

Brutal and ugly, straight ahead, trampling over the damned souls as an out of control freight train. Those are the first impressions one gets when listening to Infinited Hate's new album. Good and catchy to disharmonic guitar riffs rips the air, a heavy and rumbling bass keeps the rhythm tight and the drumming is wicked. From straight ahead brutal death metal drumming, to more technical off beat to weird breaks and abrupt kick drum patters and a good use of the cymbals, Verbeuren is indeed in good shape. The dual vocal attacks is good as well, the deep guttural and sick grunt from Rachel and a guttural and more "normal" and desperate sounding growl from Aad makes the vocals kick hard and working relentless on they eardrums.

The compositions are as such good and catch fairly quickly on, if you're into brutal and slightly chaotic death metal that is, that is a must for enjoying this piece of gut-wrenching brutality. The song writing is more or less what we can expect of the people who are in the band, there are hints of their other bands and other glorious blasts from the past. Not original at all, but very effective and straight in the listeners face. The production is very fitting to the music, dark and a bit messy, and the instruments have a raw and noisy edge, which makes the final output more brutal and dark.

This is a feast in this merry Christmas time, a piece of death metal that'll remove the thoughts from all the false happiness and glorifying. A feast for fans of brutal and slaying death metal, no doubt about that. I know I have to check out the band's first full length "Revel In Blasphemy" and their MCD "Primitive Butchery" if they contain the same standard as on this album. And as the last note, the band has chosen to do a cover version of Unleashed's 'Before The Creation Of Time', a godly track that they deliver very well, the dual vocal assault works really well on it.

Rating: 7½/10

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