Infuriate

Reviews

Infuriate / Subvermes split EP

Hot new EP seeing gruff crust machine INFURIATE from Minneapolis teaming up with SUBVERMES from São Paulo, and as expected, this is a by-the-book bollocking. I am not sure whether INFURIATE’s songs were recorded after the ones on their new album, but in terms of sound, we are swimming in a very similar ocean of downtuned, old school crustcore with something of a grindcore edge, not unlike DISASSOCIATE grabbing drinks with DESTROY! and MAN THE CONVEYOR, but the rather muddy metallic production somewhat impairs the energy and impact of the songwriting to my ears. However, it is still heavy and hard-hitting enough, and the two numbers work perfectly on this format. Will certainly do the job for the crust army. The other side is graced with four songs of fast, punishing, and energetic old school Brazilian crusty hardcore thrash with those typically aggressive vocals and that distinct flow and diction. Classic angry and raw pummeling São Paulo hardcore with a spontaneity and straightforwardness that must be commended. Fans of vintage RATOS DE PORÃO should take note. This band smokes. A very cool split.

Infuriate Scourge of Humanity …World Funeral LP

As a faithful, staunch premium consumer of gruff Eurocrust, friends often try to exfiltrate to my collection perfectly fine, generic, and uncomplicated crust records that they want to get rid of (which is indeed baffling, but no one is perfect I guess). I am easy to please like that. On paper, INFURIATE from Minneapolis has everything that I am looking for in crustcore: growling vocalists, filthy, bleak heaviness, Scandicore pace, cavemen metal breaks, and a cool name. However, and as much as I want to like this first album, it doesn’t click perfectly here. The production is lacking in energy, and the music doesn’t quite have that galloping vibe that works well with the genre, which is a shame because the songs have the required simplicity and directness you’d expect. I am not totally convinced by the very grindcore-inspired and sometimes monotonous vocals that are low in the mix, either. A punker production might have solved these issues, because in terms of songwriting, I am reminded of great bands like MAN THE CONVEYOR or late 3-WAY CUM. An alright record that could have sounded more impactful.

Brain Bleed / Infuriate / Riot Division / Shit Tax Four Way Split CD

Four-way split effort delivered to us by Hey Fuck You! Records, featuring two tracks per band coming from Chicago, Minneapolis, Richmond, and Montreal. Crust punks BRAIN BLEED really stood out here with their forceful, female-led vocals in the track “Empty,” while INFURITATE grasps at much more precise, metallic-driven crust punk that features a minimum of powerviolence stances. RIOT DIVISION lacks precision and the mixing efforts are missed, as it sounds like rotten bananas, perhaps better live. SHIT TAX is near noisecore in its purest form, recommended for lovers of such, as it still lacks mixing effort, or rehearsal, hard to tell.