Description
Bursting from the void in 2012 as Inherited the band-to-become INFESTICIDE released a couple demos under the moniker before making the official change halfway through 2013. And indeed this moniker change signaled something of a sound change or at least shift as the power-trio stepped away from thrash and plunged headlong into pure and total DEATH METAL particularly from their native Mexico. A demo and EP were released under the INFESTICIDE banner in 2014 to be followed by the band’s debut album Death’s Formulas Fatal in 2016. That debut full-length found favor among diehards for its utterly harsh ‘n’ vile sound. Keeping the same iron-fisted formula but finessing it further INFESTICIDE now unleash their gnarliest strike yet with Envenoming Wounds. Everything here is magnified to OTT levels – berzerker performance clear-yet-crushing production songwriting that’s scurrying yet seamless everything simply set to SAVAGE – and proudly upholds the banner of classic demonic death metal as ushered in by early Morbid Angel and then carried forward by Krisiun Angelcorpse and God Dethroned. But of course there’s that unmistakable sulfurous magick that Mexico’s so renown for within underground circles and INFESTICIDE’s hellish ‘n’ humid attack leaves no question about their origins. Comparisons to labelmates IN OBSCURITY REVEALED are perhaps unavoidable as vocalist/guitarist Isaias SpeedBlosky and bassist Fabrizio pull double-duty in both bands but drummer Indra’s many-tentacled kit-destruction as well as the more labyrinthine song constructions squarely put Envenoming Wounds in its own category. Which is to say nothing of the two instrumentals Acid Lava and Ageless Storms both of which are aptly-fucking-titled… Mexican death metal bears a proud lineage and INFESTICIDE blaze a path of the old into a fiery future with Envenoming Wounds!
