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CONTAMINATED – Final Man LP

CONTAMINATED's Final Man is a sickening wasteland of authentically '90s death metal sickness: gurlgling and gangrenous, fetid and filthy, and just utterly pulverizing.

CONTAMINATED were formed in 2013 in Melbourne, Australia by Lachy with the intent of playing a no-bullshit style of dark, filthy, rotten death metal in the way of underground Finnish and US legends. The band's first demo, Pestilential Decay, was handled solely by Lachlan in February 2014 and released on cassette by Crawling Chaos Productions the following April. June 2014 saw the addition of Christoph (Internal Rot, Headless Death, ex-Roskopp, many others) on drums. From December 2014 to January 2015, a full lineup was established, with Lachy handling guitar and Matt (Ignivomous, ex-Eskhaton), Nick (Asbestosisis, The Nihilistic Front, ex-Embodied) and Zev (Headless Death, ex-Roskopp, ex-Injury To Eye) joining to fill the roles of guitar, bass, and vocals respectively. March 2015 saw CONTAMINATED playing their first show and self-releasing another demo cassette, Promo '15. The Pestilential Decay demo was also reissued in December 2015 by Headsplit Records.

Since becoming a full band, CONTAMINATED has been active on the live front, regularly playing around their hometown of Melbourne and recently interstate, often on varied lineups. With more new material steadily arriving over mid-2015 to early 2016, a full-length album was recorded in May 2016 at Goatsound Studios. It has taken the form of Final Man, and it is both a summation of CONTAMINATED's sound 'n' style to date as well as an acute intensification of it. Particularly impressive is the production, where every tone is rendered in its most bulldozing form possible. Thus armed, CONTAMINATED proceed to blast and burl straight into the sewer – of the mind, body, soul, and beyond. Indeed, here stands Final Man, and it's CONTAMINATED!

CONTAMINATED – Celebratory Beheading LP (Black Vinyl)

BLOOD HARVEST RECORDS is proud to present the highly anticipated second album of Australia’s CONTAMINATED, Celebratory Beheading, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

Back in 2017, CONTAMINATED announced their arrival – loudly, sickly – onto the international death metal map with their debut album, Final Man, via BLOOD HARVEST. Graced with disturbingly detailed cover art, the Australians approximated the vivid visuals with ichor-dripping DEATH METAL of a most diseased & disgusting hue. At every angle and across every moment, Final Man spewed filth; song titles like “Mired in Shit,” “Boneless Mass,” and “Co-Opted Into Worthless Sludge” soundly proved that content met form. A couple years later, a split 7″ with comrades KUTABARE followed, after which CONTAMINATED were quiet on the recording front. But alas, earlier this spring, a split 7″ with long-running sludge-lords Fistula arrived.

Still, two songs in the past six years is criminal, but CONTAMINATED make up for that quietude with their long-awaited second album, Celebratory Beheading. Upping the disgusting stakes yet again with its cover art, Celebratory Beheading literally explodes into being, blasting its filth fast and free before bringing in stomping-yet-angular breakdowns and a whole host of gut-churning intensity. In many ways, Celebratory Beheading’s clearly-framed cover mirrors CONTAMINATED’s sonic shift; whereas Final Man roamed within a malodorous murk, the Aussies’ second full-length sharpens their attack with frightening efficiency. Nevertheless, the latent sensations from that rancid debut remain – rippling disgust, bottomless decay, slipstreaming vomit – only that, now, they’re rendered in impossibly powerful tones. Rarely has a deathgrinding record sounded this plausibly professional whilst retaining an authentically underground vibe.