NEWS: Grave Infestation smell the scent of rotting corpses?

Ahead of a March European tour with Quebec natives Sedimentum, Vancouver Death Metal horde Grave Infestation will be watching as Dark Descent Records and Invictus Productions distribute their sophomore album “Carnage Gathers” on 28th February. Described as ghastlier and more ravenous than ever before, the record has given up another preview in opening cut “Living Inhumation” with pre-orders available over at bandcamp.

The band comments on the album: “It’s a frantic death metal assault! Violent, and unrelenting. The fast parts are faster, the slow parts are slower, and everything is just plain nastier. It’s like we made an album that sounds like it came out even before our first album.”

Guitarist and vocalist Graham Christofferson adds: “The album was recorded and mixed with engineer Greg Wilkinson at the infamous Earhammer Studios in Oakland, producing a vile record that is a sonic push forward. We wanted the album dripping with disgustingness and bringing forward elements we love about sick, underground death metal. The great thing about working with Greg is he’s entrenched in the music we love and play. He could see our vision and helped us make it happen. He had death metal solutions for death metal problems, along with great old cabinets and amps. Even the studio itself gives off deathly ambience. Each song references a story of someone’s strange relationship to death, real or fictitious. The cover art [by Misanthropic Illustrations] is related to the track The Anthropophagus, it’s about a 17th century French cannibal hermit. That’s the cave he lived in. People called him the Anthropophagus, which means cannibal, but he was just basically starved to madness.”