Band: Dissimulation
Title: Atiduokit Mirusius
Label: Ledo Takas Records
Distribution: LSP Company
Release date: end 2008
Review: CD

This third Dissimulation-full length was released in Autumn 2008, but it’s never too late to review superb material!
Dissimulation are a horde from Lithuania, and unfortunately this band isn’t that well-known outside its homeland borders. However, both former albums, Maras (2002) and Prakeikimas (2005), belong to my favourites, and so will this new recording. Members Nekrofagas, Stabmeldys and Venomous entered the famous Phoenix Studio with engineer Gints Lundbergs (of Obtest / Skyforger / Luctus / Argharus / Urskumug / … -fame), where they did record this third album in only eleven days and nights. No problem, because I guess that’s why the sound seems so dry and rough, and this fact creates the most perfect ear-pleasing result. After an intro, taken from J. Fucik’s Entrance Of The Gladiators, Dissimulation seem to overpower their former efforts. Their sardonic, misanthropic and destructive world-vision gets expressed through a scornful, raw and hateful mixture of old school Thrash and Black Metal. The rhythmic and up-tempo tracks, having a total running time of almost forty minutes, sound maniacal and hateful, and the Lithuanian lyrics (the booklet contains an English translation) deal with that filthy sickness, called humanity, and the way mankind betrays itself, which will lead us, stupid mortal souls, to our self-created Hell. Atiduokit Mirusius, which means give back the dead, is more intense and raspy than before, and the album certainly will be adored by every fan of unpolished and pounding Black / Thrash Metal.

82/100

Ivan Tibos.