Album of the day: Disma – Towards the Megalith

Lovingly pinched from Lurker: We all arrive at genres with certain preconceptions. My approach to Death Metal is founded in a deep-seeded apathy. I had a minor fling with the old school death metal revival that reared its ugly head on the back of bands like Teitanblood and Cruciamentum. The cavernous, wailing insanity of the primal condition – how I loved it!

I have always ignored the more straight forward canon of modern death metal. The overly technical, malnourished-by-production bands that multipled thousandfold did the genre no favors. The same riff began to propagate across different albums, and then different tracks on the same album. Death metal bored me. You can count the number of death metal bands I follow with fervor on one hand. It has been long overdue for a band like Disma to arrive and annihilate my (perhaps naïve) take on the genre.

Disma differentiate themselves from the other DM bands I take some interest in by omitting gimmicks or outsider influence (see Portal, Cannabis Corpse of Teitanblood for some reference points). Towards the Megalith is a brilliant example of how the atmosphere in old school death metal can be combined with the rigor and riff count of more modern outfits to supreme effect. The riffs are cavernous bastions of monstrous scope and force. They flow with finesse and pride. Occasionally one guitar reels off and in decidedly un-death metal fashion commands a section of lead constrained to the lower sections of the register (god bless that G-tuning).

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Listen to Towards the Megalith HERE, courtesy of NPR First Listen.

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