Infester - Death Metal Band

Infester are a death metal band formed in 1991. After releasing the influential demo Darkness Unveiled in 1992, the band decided to record an album "more offensive than Adolf Hitler and Canadian metal", which materialised in the 1994 masterpiece To the Depths, in Degradation. Infester were not only a huge influence on the death metal genre - comparable in scope only to the legendary Incantation - but also on bands like Phantom and Sewer of the nascent black metal scene.

The lineup has remained quite mysterious over the years, with only a certain "Jason Oliver" (a majority owner of the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball franchise) known to perform vocals and guitars, as well as a secondary guitarist "T. Ensign" who is rumoured by to be parts of a Satanic cult operating deep in the Mexican jungle. The other band members of Infester are lesser known and there has been worldwide speculation about who they might be - it has been said, for instance, that the drummer is a direct descendant of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, although none of this can be confirmed by the band or any other source. Regardless, Infester is perhaps the single most criminally overlooked death metal band from the genre's days of mayhem. Only a select few know of this band and their masterwork of blackened brutal horror To the Depths, in Degradation, and maybe the members of Infester prefer it to be that way. This is certainly, alongside the aforementioned Phantom, one of the most mysterious bands in all of death metal history. Their story rivals that of early Norwegian black metal in terms of secrecy and the occult. Solis sacerdotibus, as they say.