Infamy

The Blood Shall Flow

Qabalah Productions

Review by Neil St.Laurent

Thanks to Repulse America for the CD

In early 1996 Qabalah picked up on Infamy's demo "Count The Dead". The band was offered a record deal and in mid-1997 they recorded this debut album, "The Blood Shall Flow". The band is planning on having the blood flow across the States, and hopefully into Europe, by the end of 1998.

Infamy is old school death metal at it's best (or worst, depending on what you think of that type of music): sheer brutality and driving riffs with guttoral growling for vocals. The music of "The Blood Shall Flow" has to be fast, and for the most part it is, but different from the liks of Malevolent Creation, Infamy attempts to have slow components as well. 'Attempts' is used because although the band does have slower music it just doesn't reach any level of mastery to be anything more than slowed down versions of the fast stuff (i.e. Suffocation fans won't find anything here). Certain songs actually can be described as nothing more than grindcore, which if they were actually grindcore wouldn't be bad, but instead it just sounds like a bunch of decent riffs that nobody took the time to connect together properly.

Whereas bands like Adramalech introduce originality and genuine melody into the genre, Infamy does nothing to set itself apart from the masses of old school death metal. Much of the music is unoriginal, repetitive and boring. The band needs to find a better direction to take their music, because as it stands now the only reason you'd want Infamy's "The Blood Shall Flow" is if it is the only death metal album left that you don't already have.

But hey, the lyrics sometimes rhyme!

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