The Black Map #202: Infant Annihilator from Hessle!

The air of controversy hangs thick like a shroud of darkness around Infant Annihilator, the  parodies, metaphors and satires they create in their shock humour laced graphically disturbing lyrics the kind of thing that attracts and repulses at the same time, leaving some laughing out loud at the depravity of it with the words “oh my god, you didn’t just say that did you?” etched upon the listeners face. They want to get a reaction and they know exactly how to get it. They formed in 2012 with drummer Aaron Kitcher and guitarist Eddie Pickard, taking their name from a song by Kitcher’s former band As the Blessed Fall, citing a need to have a band name and song titles as over the top as the music they wanted to create,  Technical Deathcore of the finest order. Their debut album “The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution” saw them joined by Dan Watson who exited a year later after various disagreements before going on to form Enterprise Earth. He was replaced by Abiotic frontman Dickie Allen in 2016 after Kitcher witnessed his vocal prowess while playing with his other band Desolated on a US tour. That lead to the creation of their second album “The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch” dropping in 2016. Written with go hard or go home at its black heart, extreme for the sake of extreme is the understatement of the year with technical leads over bombastic breakdowns and insane athletic drumming and nods to the kind of work that Rings Of Saturn were creating at the time. However in September 2017 they were pulled from streaming platforms for three days having been dubbed too extreme for listening. It would be three years before the studio project returned with their third album, “The Battle of Yaldabaoth” in 2019, bringing with them an array of guest vocalists including Trevor Strnad of The Black Dahlia Murder and Alex Terrible of Slaughter To Prevail for a near hour long behemoth of a record with so much going on it’s hard to take it all in…