Desecrate The Faith
Unholy Infestation
(Comatose Music)
The Texas based brutal death metallers Desecrate The Faith are back with a sophomore outing that comes in just as the advert describes with, “technical style riffs, merciless blast beats and putrid guttural vocals.” Unfortunately, there’s not much more I can say other than that and such a statement nearly makes my job obsolete in this regard. Musically, the riff-matter on this record is very oblong, it doesn’t have so much of a defined structure and seems to forego melody in lieu of the truly outlandish and bizarre. Luckily, that melds perfectly with the abrasive drumming on display, making for an experience that is primed and ready to bash your fucking head into the concrete.
Unholy Infestation is not a record concerned with being some sort of heralded artistic masterpiece – rather, it is a kind of extremely volatile abstract art with no other goal than to come crashing through your ceiling at five-thousand miles an hour with the strength of an atom bomb. The record certainly does feel like an explosion as soon as it’s building intro “Daemones Nos Ave Satanas” flows directly into the second and certainly not only dose of pummeling that you’ll get here, called “Predatory Impalement.” Just the word “impalement” alone is a good way to describe the amount of force and ferocity you’ll get here. Did you ever catch the video of the truck that somehow managed to drive right into a bus this week? Fortunately, no one was injured, but everyone on that bus felt the unrelenting force that comes with an album like this. In fact, if you let this record play while you marathon videos of major vehicle accidents and plane crashes, then you’re going to find that the performance here fits those events perfectly.
But despite all the vehicular slaughter here, there’s still something missing. Aside from the introduction and “Magma Daemonia” much of the tracks here seem to flow at the same pace and don’t really feature any nodes in which you’ll really be drawn to. I won’t say that it’s brainless, because the level of composition that goes into these pieces is worth examining; but I will say that it doesn’t actually stand out much from it’s peers. However, if you’re looking for something that comes off uncompromisingly brutal and doesn’t require a degree in physics to understand, you’ll certainly find something here.
