Miasma- Changes

Spiderchrist

The Unjesus
Jul 9, 2011
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thoughts on this album? It's brutal as fuck and it sounds demonic, not so much evil. I love the atmosphere on this album, and the artwork is pretty chilling. The vocals are the low point to this album for most people, but they're pretty sick.
 
It's a good osdm album but... it's really middle of the road for me. I dont dislike it, but even when recommending obscure stuff I tend to leave it out. Album art is silly to me too, not that it matters.

Also, why bother with a thread about it when we have a death metal thread? (especially one that pretty much specifically deals with old school stuff, new and old)
 
I always thought that album balanced raw violence with melody about as well as any band in the genre. The initial impression is always one of overwhelming harshness, but the twists and turns of melody and the way itslides into and out of dissonant passages is astonishingly subtle in a way. Unfortunately, it didn't come out of name brand scene and it got released by a notorious rip off label, so Changes never really got it's due. It isn't helped by the fact that there's nothing that is obviously like any of the genre's better known acts, so it was always hard to play the, "If you like ____, you'll probably like Miasma" card that makes word of mouth work.
 
I always thought that album balanced raw violence with melody about as well as any band in the genre. The initial impression is always one of overwhelming harshness, but the twists and turns of melody and the way itslides into and out of dissonant passages is astonishingly subtle in a way. Unfortunately, it didn't come out of name brand scene and it got released by a notorious rip off label, so Changes never really got it's due. It isn't helped by the fact that there's nothing that is obviously like any of the genre's better known acts, so it was always hard to play the, "If you like ____, you'll probably like Miasma" card that makes word of mouth work.

Very true. I haven't heard any other DM band like Miasma...