Review Summary: Through the Eyes of the Dead return from a lengthy hiatus with one of the year’s most lethal releases.
Seven years have done a lot to build an insurmountable amount of hype surrounding Through the Eyes of the Dead’s fourth album. Teasers have been sprinkled throughout the last three years on social media, and with expectations rising, fans were left weary coming into this new record. Thankfully, with the aid of innovative songwriting and an additional guitarist, the South Carolinian death metal outfit has returned with one of this year’s most lethal releases.
Disomus romps through a myriad of different sounds in its forty-minute runtime. Songs like “Hate the Living” and “Teras” surge with damaging riffs and masterful solos, while “Till Solace, She’ll Haunt” trudges through slow, seething sludge and bludgeoning beatdowns. “The Binding Nightmare Hex” and “Ingis” tastefully punctuate the album’s ferocity with soulful melodic passages and beautiful leads.
The addition of Wretched axeman Steven Funderburk adds another dimension to the band’s impeccable songwriting. His influence is made apparent in the harmonized leads that erupt at the beginning of “Obitual” and in grandiose solos scattered across the album. On
Disomus, the band steers away from exhausted formulas to explore greater progressive influences while maintaining a style rooted in traditional death metal.
Aside from the awkward transition between “Of Mortals, We Once Were” and “The Binding Nightmare Hex” and the brevity of “Ingis,” there aren’t any flaws to account for. Through the Eyes of the Dead return from a seven-year hiatus with one of the year’s most ambitious releases.
Disomus should stand out as one of 2017’s most versatile death metal albums through its vast scope and exemplary songwriting.
