This tiny and hardly describable difference is their debut's main advantage, because it easily makes the listener to keep it listening. The sound recalls the traditional Swedish sound, but it's not so raw or unfriendly. From their themes a wide variety of basics are waving back, that are most of the time not even death metal themes, and could be more related to other genres. By the intensity they never step through ordinary thrashing, and that speed proved to be easy to combine with groovy switches, or with the most basic punk influences, The guitar solos having strong traditional '80s touch, and all-in-one the impression might come, that with softer sound and different vocal style this wouldn't be even a death metal album. But maybe some nostalgic thrash/crossover project that often refers back to it's very roots. Until some ancient death metal reference comes up again to change everything. This made Miasmal more similar to the nostalgic direction of Swedish metal, but the same time because of the returning "death metal, but not" impression it keeps remindig to Lay Down Rotten somehow... death metal that might be also compatible with an audience that doesn't even like the genre. However it's not so simple the determine anything like that, since the diversity of themes keep changing frequently. This is an effective way how to make the music to listen over and over again by operating with the most basic themes. Probably the different influences of the band members were composed well into a whole, and that gave a genuine character to Miasmal's music.
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