{"product_id":"miasmal-miasmal-cd","title":"MIASMAL - Miasmal CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmerging from Sweden's underground in 2007, Miasmal instantly rose to  the top of the crowded scene. Combining old school death metal with  punkish riffs and a heap of d-beat, Miasmal released their demo in 2008  on Detest Records. This demo was an instant classic which led Miasmal to  once again hit the studio to record a 7\" EP in 2010. Shortly after its  release, the 7\" sold out which led Miasmal to take their show on the  road, playing such fests such as NWN! Fest and Kill Town Death Fest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDark Descent Records is proud to announce the release of Miasmal's  best work to date. Their self-titled debut full-length features eight  brand new hymns clocking in at over 36 minutes. Fans of true death metal  will not be disappointed as the CD version also contains the sold out  2008 demo tracks and the two tracks from the 2010 7\" EP. In all, 14  tracks are contained on this release amounting to all of Miasmal's work  to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMetal Archvies:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eIt sucks to have to constantly chew the soles off my boots,  but  these Swedish old school wannabes are so persistent in reliving and   recapturing the copious evils of their influences that I am, on a near  weekly  basis, forced to reconsider my exhaustion with such efforts and  then firmly  plant the footwear into my maw. Miasmal is one such case,  sure to join the ranks  of Bastard Priest, Tribulation and Tormented as  one of the best that metallic  nation has had to offer us via the 21st  century that it hadn't offered us 20  years ago. For a debut album, this  has just about everything you'd expect of the  style: driving d-beat  rhythms, insidious bursts of hideous agony, and a dire and  oppressive  atmosphere which feels like a mouthwash of grave dirt.\u003cbr\u003e I've  already reviewed this band's 2010 EP, which was also self-titled,  and those two  tracks: \"Creation of Fire\" and \"Bionic Godhead Erase\" are  included with this  package, along with their 2008 demo, ALSO  self-titled, so you're getting quite a  nice collection here of all that  Miasmal wanted you to hear up to the present.  Coincidentally, it's all  pretty flush in both mix and song quality, so in effect  you can listen  straight through and stay reasonably absorbed without the usual   interruption of 'hey, this sounds like crap, what happened?' that other   full-length\/demo mixes often suffer. It also helps that there are no   redundancies, all of the tracks are unique to their original  incarnations and  remain so here.\u003cbr\u003e The true strength of Miasmal must not come from originality,  but the  fact that they know precisely how to write their goddamn songs, setting   appropriate moods to offset their turgid velocity. \"Mesmerized\" opens  like a  rampant war stomp, picking up into the expected energy of  reliable d-beat death  \u0026amp; roll ala Entombed or Desultory, and then  seasoning with dour melodies.  Several tracks intensify the inherent  brutality, like \"Equinox 432\" and the  grinding, all devouring \"Toxic  Beed\". Others like \"Mists\" counterbalance the  onslaught with a  measured, haunting atmosphere, created through clean guitars  across the  backdrop of sodden chords and then escalating into the fluid  pummeling  of their environs. Most importantly, though, this is a band who can   write a good, halfway creative lick, and you'll find these peppered  through fare  like \"Chronicles\", \"Bionic Godhead Erase\" and others with  enough frequency that  you'll simply never doze off through the entire  experience (even the bonus  content).\u003cbr\u003e With its great packaging, 14 tracks of fairly consistent strength  and a  dark, authentic energy coursing through its veins, Miasmal is surely  one  of the better retrograde Swedish death metal albums I've heard in  recent months.  It's not perfect, as a lot of the core rhythms bear a  familiar feel to them, but  its fresher than a lot of other bands  attempting to dig into the same tomb, and  worth the investment if  you're a sucker for the style; perhaps even if you're  new to it...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dark Descent Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56527480291654,"sku":null,"price":13.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0851\/2300\/6790\/files\/Ni5qcGVn_37d71c42-efcb-4671-8bbd-ecf47dcf09d7.jpg?v=1778172109","url":"https:\/\/selfmadegod-store.com\/pl\/products\/miasmal-miasmal-cd","provider":"Selfmadegod Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}