You can be brutal, and still keep good tunes flowing through your guitar; this New Jersey band can do both in a nice joggling act, keeping all the gore with those impressive gurgle vocals and the death metal rhythm with nice tempo changes and a timely “acceleration” of riffs in order to still sound like a band that writes songs for more than just a disgusting goal.

“The Answer To Infection” begins with…yes you guest it a horror movie intro, but a movie I really happed to like “28days”, a nice approach at horror and gore, quite depictive but never reaching ridiculous points like in the remake of “Dawn of the Dead”; as fast as many segments may be, the songs happen to slow down in order to give the vocal work a more effective insertion, like in the second track “The Answer to Infection”, a song with tempo changes, blast beats and a couple of “groovy” guitar inclusions.

The vocals also vary including an “old lady squeal” you know what I mean those high pitch gurgles placed on different positions to create a more extreme fast double bass attack. Like any gore influenced band the vocals can transform many good songs into something tedious if you don’t pay enough attention to the riffs, placed on top of everything except the vocals.

Perhaps “Splatter Pattern” and “Addicted to Entrails” are the best tracks on the album thanks to the crunchy and well structure guitar, both songs are also the most complex tracks, at least structure wise on “The Answer To Infection”, displaying all the instruments at their best, like the nice bridge in “Splatter Pattern” were the bass introduces a fast catchy segment, a good change of pace.

The album is like the title implies, Infectious, the more you listen to it, you can get it out of your head, off course “Digested Flesh” could have worked a little more on the production and the drums, but that muddy sound has some romanticism to it that all the underground just loves.