UPON INFLICTION – TO ESCAPE IS TO SUFFER – CRASH  
Upon Infliction’s To Escape Is To Suffer is the second genuine death metal album this month from Crash Music that smokes from beginning to end. The band is apparently the brainchild of one Gus Rios who is a collaborator of sorts with the Malevolent Creation characters. The band certainly has a whiff of the more famous Floridians in it - in contrast to label-mates Abysmal Dawn, which is less American sounding – but this quartet also mixes in elements better associated with Incantation and Suffocation. The riffs are heavy and grinding, the guitars neigh and screech, the drummer (former Kult Ov Azazel/Sickness man Rios) shows particular bad taste, which is perfect for death metal and the vocals are at least doubled up and treated with a fair dose of effects. The album also features a cover of Death’s song Mutilation. Whether it is the faster blasts or the crushing heavier riffs, To Escape Is To Suffer offers a modern day metal paradox, for to stay within earshot of this album is also to suffer. – Ali “The Metallian”