The Redmond metal band Death Agenda has been kicking around in some form or another since about 2007.

In human years, that’s a long time. In band years, it’s an eternity.

So when Death Agenda’s three members — guitarists Nick Hughes and Mike Self, and drummer Travis Strader — found themselves with a batch of songs they liked and an itch to document ’em, they didn’t want to delay the recording process in hopes of acquiring better equipment.

All three hem and haw just a bit when asked if they’re happy with their new album, “Diaries of the Departed,” which they’ll celebrate with a show Saturday night (see “If you go”).

“It’s definitely a home recording,” Hughes said.

“It is what it is,” concurred Self. “I think this time around we were more interested in just getting the music out there.”

Self has played in bands for years — Bombs Kept Quiet, SnapPoint, Never Heard the Shot and Exfixia, to name a few local examples — and he has the most studio experience of the trio. This allows for an anecdote.

“I went to a studio one time, and just the vocal mic alone cost $980,” he said. “Our vocal mic that we used cost $900 less than that.”

Big laughs, all around.

In a way, the somewhat ragged sound quality of “Diaries” is a perfect fit for Death Agenda’s music, a hard-chugging, aggressive brand of death metal powered by Strader’s thunderous blast beats, the serrated twin-guitar attack of Hughes and Self, and lots of howling, growling and shrieking. The album’s eight tracks have a rough-hewn feel to them, but no more so than some of the legendarily lo-fi recordings from the early days of death and black metal.

In a world where the lines between metal subgenres are blurry and the subject of much debate, Death Agenda is solidly a death metal band, and always has been. Hughes started the group in 2007 and recruited Strader after a jam partner moved out of state. In 2012, Self joined the fold as a bassist. When another guitarist left the band, Self moved to guitar, leaving Death Agenda bass-less. (They’d love to have a bassist in the band, they said, but haven’t found the right fit.)

Self’s arrival ramped up the group’s songwriting efforts; he and Hughes both write, and the band comes up with lots of new material in practice. Most of the songs on “Diaries” are new, and the trio has completed even more songs since they finished the album.

“It’s finally getting there as far as us writing together,” Self said.

“I like writing with other people. I think it makes me more of a rounded musician, and I like the collaboration,” Hughes said.

Each member of the trio has his own favorite metal bands and influences, though they agree on a lot of stuff. Strader cites Testament and Obituary. Hughes tosses out Slayer and Cannibal Corpse. Self mentions Malevolent Creation and Napalm Death (but only the music they made before the death of guitarist Jesse Pintado.)

“I can’t say it sounds like any particular band. There’s no way,” Hughes said.

“There’s too much ADD going on,” Strader chimes in.

That said, Death Agenda avoided the distractions that often slow a band’s album down and got “Diaries” done, even if they dream of doing their next one at a real studio.

“I think it does what we set out to do. I think it represents the band,” Self said. “I just wanted to give people something to listen to.”

But Self is the veteran musician in the group. If he sounds slightly blasé about “Diaries,” it’s because he has been here before.

Hughes, on the other hand, is effusively stoked to have a recording of his own to hold in his hands.

“I’ve been playing music for a long time and I’ve never recorded anything,” he said. “So this means the world to me.”

— Reporter: 541-383-0377, bsalmon@bendbulletin.com