Interview with death metal band from Spain - INFRAHUMANO.
Recenze/review - INFRAHUMANO - Depths of Suffering (2025):
Ave INFRAHUMANO! Greetings to the Spanish underground. I hope everything is going well for you. It should be, since you released the second great album of your career this year. I must admit that it literally pinned me to the wall. It’s dark, energetic, cutting like a sharp knife. It’s very clear that you’ve done a great job and that you have a lot of talent. How do you perceive the new album in relation to your debut? Where did you want to go and how do you think the recordings are different?
I: Depths of Suffering is the sound of INFRAHUMANO. It represents, obviously, the point we’re at, but it’s made up of the steps we’ve taken over the years. Looking back, we don’t feel we’ve drifted away from those primordial roots that formed the foundations of the band. The sound, the compositions, the technique, and the confidence have grown, of course; however, that old-school Death Metal sound that already seeped into the tracks of our first demo (1000 Eyes – 2017) continues to permeate our current work. The band grows and the sound evolves, but we believe we are on the same path we marked out for ourselves a decade ago. The closing track of the album, Shades of Cruelty, perhaps marks the direction in which the band is heading, but it still maintains our clear INFRAHUMANO sound.
“Depths of Suffering” has all the attributes of good death metal. For me personally, it’s an album I love to return to. How did it come about? How does INFRAHUMANO compose new material?
I: The creation process for this album was long. Some songs were conceived during the pandemic. We could say we don’t have a fixed way of composing. Sometimes one of us brings developed ideas that already form a song on their own and are then enriched by contributions from the others. Other times, someone proposes a riff that someone else develops, and finally there are songs that arise from improvisation and composing together in the rehearsal space.
Who is responsible for the recording, mixing, and mastering? I have to say that the sound is literally killer. It keeps making me turn up the volume on my hi-fi system. You have a sound that is cruel, raw, dark, and animalistic at the same time. How did you work together? In which studio did you record and how did everything go?
I: The two demos and two albums we’ve released so far have been recorded and mixed in different places. Our trust has fallen on different people depending on the demands of each moment. For this record we worked with the expertise of Gon Gb (guitarist of Akoúphenom and Cruzeiro) at Negra Cumbre Studios. The mastering was done by the great Greg Wilkinson (Autopsy). We are very happy with the result. And thank you for your words — we think you describe the album’s sound very well. It’s the effect we were looking for.
An integral part and a kind of bonus for fans today is the CD. You released it on Lavadome Productions and it has a devilish cover. Who is the author? How did you choose the motif and how does it relate to the music on the new album?
I: For the artwork of this new album we worked with our rhythm guitarist Alex Durán (@aliendraws_official), who had already designed the cover for the Across the Void demo. Both the title of the album and the image depicted on the cover capture the essence of the themes within the lyrics: suffering, war, decadence, and the destructive evolution of humankind, portraying on the cover the hell hidden in the basement of the human being.
I’ve been wandering the underworld for over thirty years and I go to Spain for music as a matter of course. I think we have a similar nature and taste when it comes to metal. I really like your bands and follow your scene closely. Maybe I envy you a little, because we only have a few death metal bands that are worth mentioning. How do you explain the fact that death metal is so successful in your country? How do you perceive your scene, fans, and labels?
I: INFRAHUMANO is a band from Vigo, although the two founding members — vocals/bass and guitar — are Chilean and Italian respectively. Here in Spain, Heavy Metal has always led the way, and from there Death Metal and many other subgenres have grown, just like in other countries.
Vigo is a city where people from many places in Spain and from around the world live together, and perhaps within that cultural mix lies the key to so much musical activity. A large percentage of the city’s population plays an instrument, and there are many live music venues.
Metal, in all its forms, has quite a few followers and many people attend concerts. We owe everything to our followers (most of whom are friends of the band). In our opinion, INFRAHUMANO is a respected and well-regarded band in our scene, no more than countless others from this city with whom we often share the stage.
We know many people who started listening to Death Metal (as I did) in the ’90s, and even earlier. Although at first we were few, now there’s a breath of fresh air: new generations embracing this sound, new bands and new fans. And that makes us very happy.
Speaking of labels, if you mean national ones, it’s true that the level of demand is quite high for bands wanting to work with them. It’s completely understandable: besides wanting highly committed people, selling physical formats today is very difficult. Our label, Lavadome Productions, is from the Czech Republic, and we’ve been lucky that they believed in our work from there.
You play old-school–influenced death metal. Today, bands can’t avoid comparisons, but I’d be interested to know how the idea to form INFRAHUMANO came about, who your role models were and are, and where you want to take your band. Are you attracted to big international festivals? Would you be willing to go on tour with a more famous band?
I: INFRAHUMANO was born simply from the intention of making the Death Metal that we like. Our influences are broad and varied, inside and outside of metal, but the echo of the old school is undeniable. The most important influences come from several bands that changed our lives. Among the American ones: Morbid Angel, Possessed, Deicide, Death, among others; among the European ones: Merciless (SE), Dismember, Sinister, and Entombed, to name a few.
Where is the band going? It’s clear that the underground path isn’t easy, and it’s made up of small steps and small venues. Promotion and social media are obviously part of it, but word of mouth still carries a lot of weight, and there are labels still releasing material as they did 30 years ago. We’d like to keep growing because it’s what we love — to continue composing, recording, and bringing our music to a larger audience. We've had the chance on several occasions to play small and large festivals in Spain and Portugal, the biggest ones undoubtedly being Kanekas and SWR Barroselas.
We’d love to continue on this path and, hopefully, join some of the big names in Death Metal.
What exactly are your lyrics about? Where did you get your inspiration for them? In my opinion, death metal should always contain darkness. How did the music influence the lyrics?
I: Our lyrics are also quite diverse: we talk about cruelty, greed, and human evil, about mental illness, sadism, murder… Death is always present, almost as something tangible. There’s also a clear disdain for religions, their symbolism, and especially for those who take advantage of them to live off the most vulnerable.
On the other hand, we are very attracted to darkness, to that romanticism and magnetism surrounding it. The occult and the macabre always draw us in.
In general, inspiration comes from daily reality. It’s enough to look at any news outlet to find atrocious things of all kinds.
We usually compose the music first and, depending on what it conveys to us, we write the lyrics.
When I was listening to your new album, I was reading a book about the Spanish Inquisition. Those must have been crazy times, and it only reinforced my belief that any blind faith enforced by twisted people is always absolutely evil. After all, this is still the case in some countries today. How do Christianity and Islam influence life in Spain? And what is your relationship to the church and faith?
I: Regarding Christianity or Islam in Spain, I suppose they’re still present, though fortunately with less strength. Today, with access to information, it’s inevitable to acquire knowledge — and that distances us from ignorance, which is precisely what religions feed on. If they still exist, it must be due to family tradition... but honestly, we don’t know and don’t want to know.
I like to ask musicians what death metal means to them. How would they define it — is it more of a philosophy and lifestyle for them, or “just” relaxation? What does it mean to you? How do you perceive and experience it?
I: For me, Death Metal has been a lifestyle since my “childhood,” so to speak. It’s not quite a religion, because I feel it’s something much more earthly and tangible. As you say, it’s a philosophy of life as well as a musical style.
Finally, a classic but important question. What does INFRAHUMANO have planned for the coming months? Where can we see you in concert? If you want to say something to your fans, labels, promoters, here’s your chance…
I: With INFRAHUMANO we plan to release new material soon: maybe an EP, maybe another LP… we’ll see. We’re working on new things and we have three songs ready for whatever comes next.
For the rest of 2025 we have two shows: one in Portugal, at Butchery at Christmas Time (December 5–6), and another in our city, Vigo, to present our album Depths of Suffering on December 20.
2026 will undoubtedly be a new chapter for the band, with many surprises and many shows.
We want to thank our fans, our families, all the bands we’ve played with, and especially Jan and Lavadome Productions for believing in us. To the promoters, we want to say that we’re here for whatever is needed. And to you, thank you for giving us the space to promote our music and continue playing the Death Metal we love.
Thank you very much for the interview. I wish you every success with your new album and hope that your fan base grows as much as possible. I look forward to seeing you live somewhere and wish you all the best, both musically and personally. I’m going to listen to Depths of Suffering again!
Recenze/review - INFRAHUMANO - Depths of Suffering (2025):
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