GRAVE INFESTATION

Today, Invictus Productions announces June 3rd as the international release date for Grave Infestation‘s highly anticipated debut album, Persecution of the Living, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Formed in 2018, Grave Infestation wasted no time in making their presence in the underground felt far and wide. Recorded as a power-trio, the band’s debut demo, Infesticide, was originally self-released in late 2018 and then picked up for wider release by Invictus. On evidence of that opening 23-minute salvo, it’s not difficult to understand why: Grave Infestation wielded a gutsfucking sound that near-effortlessly synthesized every slice of darkness of death metal’s pivotal late ’80s era. Death metal diehards took notice, and then the second demo, Infestation of Rotting Death, consolidated that enviable standing, now revealing the band as a quartet.

Alas, as doom enveloped the earth, Grave Infestation was lurking in wait, brewing their full-length debut. And it arrives with the force of a nuclear payload in the form of Persecution of the Living. Reprising a couple re-recorded songs from the preceding demo, the presciently titled Persecution of the Living wastes no fucking time in getting in and absolutely flaying the listener alive. The foundation remains much the same – from the malignant tendrils Morbid Angel cast across the Tampa scene to the buzzsaw bulldoze of the contemporaneous Swedish scene, the ancient foundation of Necrovore, Repulsion, and Sadistic Intent to Carcass’ godly first two albums – but Grave Infestation exhibit a frightening clarity in their jackhammering attack. Some could call it a “clean(er)” iteration of their strident sound; others might view that cauldron with focus and finesse, as eerie melodies occasionally bubble up from the muck; but whatever tag you put on it, Persecution of the Living represents a professional-yet-powerful statement to the wider metal world. Darkness, death, DOOM: herald the grand arrival of Grave Infestation!

Witness that arrival with the brand-new track “Slaughter, Then Laughter” here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Grave Infestation’s Persecution of the Living
1. Intro
2. The Conquest of Pestilence
3. Slaughter, then Laughter
4. Persecution of the Living
5. Can You See the Pale Horseman in the Distance
6. Plague of Crypts
7. Death of the Last Individual
8. Human Jigsaw Puzzle
9. Eternal Oblivion
10. Outro

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Today, Invictus Productions sets March 29th as the international release date for Grave Infestation‘s striking debut demo, Infesticide, on cassette tape format. Originally self-released during the closing moments of 2018, so impressed by Grave Infestation‘s sonic filth was Invictus that the label simply had to release Infesticide on a wider scale! And within the first few minutes, it’s simple to understand why: this Vancouver power-trio wield a gutsfucking sound that near-effortlessly synthesizes every slice of darkness of death metal’s pivotal late ’80s era. From the malignant tendrils Morbid Angel cast across the Tampa scene to the buzzsaw bulldoze of the contemporaneous Swedish scene, the ancient foundation of Necrovore, Repulsion, and Sadistic Intent to Carcass’ godly first two albums – all this (and plenty more) gets swirled into Grave Infestation‘s cauldron. And unlike so much modern “death metal” that purports to be a band but is nothing more than a sterile studio project, Infesticide proves that this is three actual human beings playing together, harnessing the powers of death ‘n’ destruction into a maelstrom of inexorable might. Step forth into that maelstrom with the new track “Dead Wrong” here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Grave Infestation’s Infesticide 1. Dead Wrong 2. Mortality Rate 3. Death Bait 4. Sudden Death 5. Still Birth… Still Life

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