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First demo, now available as a pro-dubbed cassette. Seven tracks of grimy death metal. Comes with lyric sheet and sticker.
Our take: I remember when I got Pollen’s Fear of Another War 7” in 2017 it didn’t list the speed on the center label and I couldn’t figure out which speed was the correct one. At 45rpm it was ripping, locked-in d-beat, but at 33rpm it was the most crushing old school death metal I’d heard in years. It turns out 45rpm was the correct speed for Pollen, but I mention this story because Infandus is basically what the Pollen 7” sounded like at 33rpm. The crustiness isn’t surprising given this old school death metal band from New York features two members from After, who put out one of the most ferocious d-beat records of 2020. The crustiness comes through most on tracks like “Ribbons of Skin” and “Echoes in the Fog,” while the others sound like an outstanding underground death metal demo from 1984. I like everything about this.
Our take: I remember when I got Pollen’s Fear of Another War 7” in 2017 it didn’t list the speed on the center label and I couldn’t figure out which speed was the correct one. At 45rpm it was ripping, locked-in d-beat, but at 33rpm it was the most crushing old school death metal I’d heard in years. It turns out 45rpm was the correct speed for Pollen, but I mention this story because Infandus is basically what the Pollen 7” sounded like at 33rpm. The crustiness isn’t surprising given this old school death metal band from New York features two members from After, who put out one of the most ferocious d-beat records of 2020. The crustiness comes through most on tracks like “Ribbons of Skin” and “Echoes in the Fog,” while the others sound like an outstanding underground death metal demo from 1984. I like everything about this.