DISMA — Towards the Megalith (review)

DISMA — Towards the Megalith album cover Album · 2011 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
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Towards the Megalith is the debut album from US death metal act Disma. It was released in 2011 and features eight tracks of doom influenced death metal (but I wouldn’t call it actual death/doom by a long shot), and is presented in an old school vein that makes the album sound incredibly evil. There is no better way to describe the sort of sound that Disma is dishing up here. It’s just pure unadulterated evil.

This is however the sort of album that once you know what to expect you won’t find any surprises as it goes on. Each track is presented in the similar vein of none too polished production, doom tinged death metal riffs and an incredibly powerful growl. Disma has a good death metal sound though, so this is okay, but it is worth noting that the release does get a little samey, although there are plenty of great riffs on offer that more than makes up for it. Towards the Megalith is clearly an album aimed at a certain type of death metal fan is this respect, and I think that it does a good enough job, but I’d like a bit more identity between the tracks at the end of the day.

This does also mean that it’s a struggle to find the words to form of review of this album. The album is a solid enough listening experience but describing one track is like describing them all. There are no surprises to be found within it after you’ve had the opening track Chaos Apparition in other words. That is ultimately why I’m going to keep this review relatively short and say that this is a good album, but it could be better. Fans of the more evil sounding death metal (as opposed to say more polished death metal sounds as much modern death metal is) should find something to like here. For the rest of us though Disma has a fair bit of a way to go yet. Still for a debut album this really isn’t bad at all, and shows the group’s clear potential. Most certainly an act to be keeping an eye on.

(Originally written for Heavy Metal Haven, scored at 6.6/10, "Pretty Good, but Could be Better")
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