Each track on the album is unique in its own right, yet still maintains that signature Infected soundscape that makes each track both mind-bending and dance-inducing at the same time.
This gives the album a unifying quality, making it seem much more like an experience, or a journey, if you will, rather than a mere playlist.Ģ. Nearly every track blends into the next one, although sometimes it’s not as obvious as in others.
Each track flows beautifully with both the following track and the previous. That would be kind of superficial, wouldn’t it? No, I had a long, thorough listen to the album as a whole, multiple times before actually going out and spending money on it, and the three features that made me fall in love with it are as follows:ġ. After doing some research on the album, and especially after seeing that the cover art had been designed by David Ho, using the same morbid Asian girl from Seether’s album, Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces, I knew I had to get it on my CD shelf.ĭon’t get me wrong, though I didn’t buy the album just for three tracks mentioned above, one of which was a radio hit single, and the cover art. So, after all that, you can imagine my delight when I stumbled across such wonders as “Heavyweight,” Suliman,” and “Becoming Insane,” three psytrance-based tracks slathered with heavy rock riffs that get stuck in your head for days and days. I became interested in electronica when I saw Aphex Twin’s music video for “Come To Daddy,” which sent me on a search to find more music that would melt my brain which bizarre synths and sound effects, while still satisfying my craving for that heavy metal distortion sound that I loved so dearly. In 2008, I was 16 years old, and was really into metal and hard rock, and all things related. It is the first Infected album I’ve ever heard, and has been with me since 2008, when I first took an interest in electronic music. Of all the albums I’ve ever owned, whether CD, mp3, or tape cassette, Vicious Delicious is by far my favourite. Infected Mushroom perform as a band on stage, utilizing live vocals and a variety of instruments, including guitars, drums, and synthesizers.Review Summary: Maybe not be everyone's cup of coffee, but undeniably one of the most powerful and innovative psy-trance albums of all time.As of 2021, Infected Mushroom had released 12 studio albums, the most recent being 2020’s More Than Just a Name.“Aura,” the opening track off Lady Gaga’s 2013 album Artpop, was cowritten and coproduced by Infected Mushroom.They also cover Foo Fighters’ “The Pretender” on their 2012 LP Army of Mushrooms. Wearing their rock influence on their sleeves, Infected Mushroom remix the Doors classic “Riders on the Storm” on their 2009 album Legend of the Black Shawarma.Their seventh full-length, 2009’s Legend of the Black Shawarma, finally dented the Billboard charts, reaching the Top 10 of the Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart.Establishing a pattern of sonic experimentation, the duo incorporated more chords and melodies into their 2000 follow-up, Classical Mushroom. The band released its debut album, The Gathering, in 1999.Drawing inspiration from such disparate sources as The Prodigy and Metallica, Infected Mushroom forged a distinct style of hard, pulsing electronica with psychedelic sounds and shifting tempos.Duvdevani learned piano at age eight and played keyboards for a punk band as a teen. Erez Eisen and Amit Duvdevani founded Infected Mushroom in the city of Haifi in 1996.Įisen is a classically trained musician who learned to play the organ at four.The Isreali electronic music duo Infected Mushroom are pioneers of psychedelic trance music, or psytrance, a sound they’ve built on throughout a wildly successful career dating back to the mid-’90s.