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INFESTMENT
Evulsion Of Mortal Birth

Maggot Stomp (2021)
Rating: 8/10

After the lovely ‘Maggots In Your Brain’ and ‘Human Altar’ demos last year, Atlanta, Georgia-based death metal messiah Justin Stubbs has created a further 23 minutes of misery with debut album Evulsion Of Mortal Birth.

Somehow this multi-talented individual has crammed in ten tuneless tumours all under the three-minute mark for us to dissect.

After an introduction that sounds like a ravenous horde of the undead we get roasted by the whirlwind that is ‘Sculpted Of Virginal Gore’. Like the rest of this filthy orgy of sound, the track provides remote vocalisations and gnashing rhythms that truly devour the flesh.

As the album rolls on I become swallowed by its dearth of old school flavours, from old Cannibal Corpse to grating Carcass grinding and Bolt Thrower mash ups.

Riffs are coated in filth, yet remain catchy, while the percussion casts off deadly mould fibres. And tracks such as ‘Reeking Viscera’, ‘Verminous Offerings’, ‘Cryptic Gates’ and ‘Until The Skin Turns Blue’ are awash with fetid, spiralling melancholy and bubbling odours of obscurity.

Although the pacier segments devastate, when they give way to deeper, churning foulness then that’s when Infestment comes into its own; a rank, damp, grave of infernal offerings that left me salivating for more gore.

Neil Arnold

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