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!