With song names like "The Maggots are in Me", "Cranial Implosion", and "Putrid Infestation", it's pretty easy to see that Infamy's lyrical inspiration is not terribly deep. They likewise have little to offer in musical creativity. But then, their genre isn't about revolutionizing the Western music paradigm. It's about making eardrums bleed and inciting antagonistic adolescents to berserk moshing at their shows. The Blood Shall Flow should perform admirably in this respect. What this album lacks in originality it almost makes up for in unrelenting speed and ruthlessness. Dual super-chunk guitar riffs complement piston-legged double bassing and rasped death vocals that are above average in expressiveness and discernibility. There are few lead guitar breaks, and even these are set behind the constant breakneck rhythms, rather than being real solos. Slow, sludgy interludes occasionally break up the fatiguingly fast-paced songs. What else is there to say? The Blood Shall Flow is brutally mediocre. It's certainly not a bad death metal album, but it does little to stand above the dozens of other similar acts on the market.
Tragically, lead vocalist and bassist Joshua "Jagger" Heatley passed away in March 1998, at the time this album was being pressed. It is unclear at this time if the band will recruit a new member and continue their onslaught, but it is certain they will not soon forget their loss. The band has announced the creation of a memorial fund for Heatley's widow and daughter, to which they have pledged ALL the proceeds from the sale and merchandising of The Blood Shall Flow.
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