This is the debut album from UK post-metal band Dimscûa.
It’s unlikely I would have come across this if it wasn’t for the organiser of Damnation Festival‘s enthusiastic endorsement for it on the brilliant 2 Promoters 1 Pod. I’m glad I did though, as it’s a corker. Dust Eater is a 32-minute post-metal/sludge tour de force.
Despite being Dimscûa’s first release, the four soundscapes crafted by the band are very accomplished. It’s an album rich in thick atmosphere, whether it’s delivering ethereal delicacy or crushing her heaviness, (or frequently both).
The music has an intensity born of real loss. The songs are built on an unyielding bedrock of feeling, towering bastions of emotive substance and colossal weight. Beneath lies a depth few bands achieve, all given expressive form by Dimscûa’s ability to build structures that reflect their underpinning emotional energies.
Dimscûa know how to write post-metal and atmospheric sludge. It soars, it dives, it ebbs, it flows, it builds, it releases. The music is exceptionally well-developed and masterfully realised. I’m sure it sounds like hyperbole, but Dust Eater is a genuinely great record. Its only real flaw being that it could do with being about ten minutes longer. That alone should indicate that there is something special going on here, as most of the time – almost always – I end up wishing albums were shorter, not the opposite.
Dust Eater is a powerful, highly emotive record. It’s saturated with feeling, given shape by songwriting that takes all of post-metal’s strengths and runs with them. It’s beautiful, brutal, heartbreaking, transportive, and more. Dimscûa have produced an album that’s remarkably strong.
Completely essential, for any fan of bands such as Amenra, Beneath a Steel Sky, Bossk, Codespeaker, Cult of Luna, Hundred Year Old Man, Obscure Sphinx, Wren, Year of No Light, etc.
Wonderbox Metal 
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