The first track tells me this is going to be fun!

this album has every right to be described as hellish

The remaster from this year is great, Wish Spotify had that one. The original mix is still great though, but some minor issues were improved on the remastered edition.

well isnt this going well lol.

I'm a bit late, but I have been listening to it! Not to worry, I can't be the only one?

Infester - To The Depths in Degradation

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This album is mostly pretty ordinary, at least from a compositional perspective. What's special about it is how it sounds. The cartoonish cookie monster vocals are often ridiculously deeply pitched, which meshes pretty wonderfully with the deep, rumbling bass and the murky guitars. The drums even have a fair bit of low end to them, with a kick drum that's more a low end thud than a typical wet DM click (kick drums usually sound like **** in death metal. Let's all just admit that).

So I'd like to just list off a few things that I like about this album:

- Drums that sound good. Quite a novelty on a death metal album!
- I can heard the bass guitar and it's fat and rumbly! Almost unheard of in death metal.
- Silly vocals! Refer to the outro track for pure Looney Tunes goodness.
- The second last track, Mephetic Echumation (Mnemetic what now?!), is pretty interesting actually. Maybe not mindblowingly original, but it sounds less like stock death metal than most of this album does.
- A Higher Art of Immutable Beauty is a pretty gay song title for a death metal album. +10 points for being progressive.
- Let's not even comment on the title of the song before that one.
- All the soft, rumbly low end frequencies makes this album feel less abrasive than it feels like some kind of plushy, welcoming death metal pillow. It's almost soothing to listen to, even when they blast away.

8/10. Feel-good metal from the pits of hell.

Yes, as I said, i predicted people would say the vocals are odd man out, which at times they are.. they are pretty cartoonish,but do mesh well with the music and what it goes for.

I always liked how it has that overall kind of cave in hell like feel, its not a particularly original death metal album as you say in terms of composition, but it makes up for it in character and the way it comes across.

Only one album I can think of that has vocals I would love to hear commented on, but we will leave that one for a later date ;)

I did actually like the vocals after getting used to it, even though I still find them ridiculous :laughing:

More like "dead metal album club".

I warned him. Running an album club takes dedication and time. If you, as the owner of the club, don't give a ****, don't expect anyone else to. Called this more or less from the start. Batty's too flighty/lazy to run something like this. You need to be Hitler. Like me.