GRAVE INFESTATION (Vancouver, BC Canada) - Persecution Of The Living LP (2022) Released by Invictus Productions on limited Blue Galaxy vinyl - limited to only 100 copies. Ordered directly from the band in BC (includes FREE "Infesticide" sticker with each LP). 
 Formed in 2018, GRAVE INFESTATION wasted no time in making their presence in the underground felt far and wide. Recorded as a power-trio, the band's debut demo, "Infesticide," was originally self-released in late 2018 and then picked up for wider release by INVICTUS Productions (Ireland). 
On evidence of that opening 23-minute salvo, it's not difficult to understand why: GRAVE INFESTATION wielded a guts-fucking sound that near-effortlessly synthesized every slice of darkness of Death Metal's pivotal late 80's era. Death Metal diehards took notice, and then the second demo, Infestation of Rotting Death, consolidated that enviable standing, now revealing the band as a quartet.
Alas, as doom enveloped the earth, GRAVE INFESTATION was lurking in wait, brewing their debut full-length. And it arrives with the force of a nuclear payload in the form of "Persecution Of The Living." Reprising a couple re-recorded songs from the preceding demo, the presciently titled "Persecution Of The Living" wastes no fucking time in getting in and absolutely flaying the listener alive. 
The foundation remains much the same - from the malignant tendrils Morbid Angel cast across the Tampa scene to the buzzsaw bulldoze of the contemporaneous Swedish scene, the ancient foundation of Necrovore, Repulsion, and Sadistic Intent to Carcass' godly first two albums - but GRAVE INFESTATION exhibit a frightening clarity in their jackhammering attack. 
Some could call it a "clean(er)" iteration of their strident sound; others might view that cauldron with focus and finesse, as eerie melodies occasionally bubble up from the muck; but whatever tag you put on it, Persecution of the Living represents a professional-yet-powerful statement to the wider Metal world. Darkness, Death, DOOM: herald the grand arrival of GRAVE INFESTATION!  --  Invictus Productions – IP181LP   
Recorded and Mixed by Jesse Gander (yes, "that" Jesse Gander from d.b.s.) during the Winter of 2020.