Born out of the various members desire to see a resurgence of a dissonant, heavy style of Death Metal devoid of influences from grind, slam, gore, etc, but leaning towards the claustrophobic style of such albums as "Onward to Golgotha", "Dawn of Possesion", "Ritual of Infinity", etc: a time when Death Metal had not sunk into self-parody, gore-obsessed retardation and cretinous gimmicks. A time when Death Metal meant DEATH.

While the members of Ignivomous have for all played in other bands and projects ranging as far afield as Doom, Industrial/Neo-classical, Black-thrash and Grind, there has been a concious decicion to maintain a purity of focus and avoid genre cross-pollination.