Infected

About this user

Infected is a band from Sinzig, Germany, who defines their style as modern death metal. Up to now the 5 friends released two EPs titled "Branded" and "Coma". The Line-Up consists of Nico Kaden (vocals), Marcel Sonnenberg (guitar), Christoph Mönch (drums), Marcel Pinger (bass) and Malte Müller (guitar). Infected was founded in 2004 but a few changes in the line-up were to follow. But since 2005 the current line-up has not been changed except for Malte Müller, who joined the band in 2008.

Style
A fixed metal subgenre does not exist for Infected. In the early days the style was heavily influenced by 80's and early 90's thrash metal. But music style and songwriting gradually changed into a melodic death variety inspired by bands like In Flames and Soilwork. Nevertheless, in the more recent songs all invisible fences and walls in the head were thrown away. In these songs elements of progressive music and ballads are reflected as well as death metal influences, often all of them in one song.
A further trademark of Infected are the vocals of singer Nico, who changes between agressive growling and screaming and a clean singing style, reminiscent of HIM.
The lyrical scope varies from complete bollocks as in "Almdudler" up to socio-critical songs such as "Liar".

Live
Infected gained reputation through playing supra-regional gigs and sharing the stage with bands like Jack Slater (DE), Excrementory Grindfuckers (DE), Das Scheit (DE), President Evil (DE) and Torture Squad (BR). A striking feature is their passionate and powerful stage presence. Their show is a blast, and the five guys always give free rein to their passion and fun while playing, whether they are playing aggressive and demanding death metal blasts, midtempo steamrollers or feeling ballads.

Releases
Around the turn of the years 2006/2007 the first and only EP "Coma was recorded with the aid and advice of Sven Gäb (Hatedrive, SinSick). It was released in 2007 on GPosse Records. On it the old thrash style is still audible, because a representative slice through the hitherto written songs was intended.
In June 2009 Infected finally released their second EP "Branded. It differs in 2 fundamental points from the predecessor: on the one hand it is a pure Do-It-Yourself-Production without elaborate and expensive studio sessions, on the other hand it is not available on a physical storage medium but is provided on the bands website as a Web-EP for free download under a creative commons licence. The band's intention is to explore new ways of recording without high costs, promoting music in the web and hopefully reaching new listeners through the availability of free downloads.