Capita Mega Death Snowboard Review

The Capita Mega Death is the kind of board that will sense weakness and kick your butt from here to Sunday if you approach it meekly. 

However, if you assert yourself with it and give it the energy it needs, it will give you the kind of performance that I would be very surprised if you could find the limits of. I certainly couldn't get it there. It could take everything I threw out it without the slightest hint of flinching. 

In this review, I will take a look at the Mega Death as a freeride snowboard.

As per tradition here at SnowboardingProfiles.com I will give the Mega Death a score out of 100 (based on several factors) and see how it compares with other freeride snowboards.

Overall Rating

Board: Capita Mega Death

Price: $1,009

Style: Freeride/Aggressive All-Mountain

Flex Rating: Mid-Stiff (6.5/10)

Flex Feel on Snow: Stiff (8/10)

Rating Score: 88.6/100

Compared to other Men’s Freeride Boards

Overview of the Mega Death’S Specs

Check out the tables for the Mega Death’s specs and available sizes.

Who is the Mega Death Most Suited To?

The Mega Death is best suited to physically strong advanced/expert riders who want a board that they can throw everything at and that will be able to take it. Someone who wants to push the limits and not have their board lower the ceiling of what those limits could be. 

Could be a one-board-quiver for the right rider for sure and could also make a good quiver compliment with a few different types of boards e.g. a more freestyle and/or playful and/or powder specialized board, etc. 

Definitely not for beginners or intermediate riders, IMO. It's not the kind of board that's a lot of fun unless you're assertive with it and clean with your technique. 

Mega Death DetailS

O.k. let’s take a more detailed look at what the Mega Death is capable of.

Demo Info

Board: Capita Mega Death 2025, 156cm (256mm waist width)

Date: March 6, 2024

Powder

There was some shallower powder and even some relatively decent accumulation on the day I tested the Mega Death. And it felt really good in there. And that should translate fairly well to deeper powder too, with a directional shape, rocker in the nose, but not in the tail and a setback stance. 

Carving

This thing could really rip a carve! It felt at its best on long radius high speed carves and nice and stable carving through less-than-smooth snow too. For how light it is, it sure felt damp.

Turning

Ease of Turning/Slashing: I found the Mega Death to be quite torsionaly stiff and I think that was the main things that made turn initiation a little difficult. It's overall more locked-in feel meant it wasn't well suited to slashing either. 

Maneuverability at slow speeds: It wasn't super agile at slow speeds for me. Pretty good when I really threw my energy into it, but it felt a lot more natural and required less effort, when I was riding it at faster speeds. 

Catchiness: It wasn't something I would describe as ultra catchy, but definitely some catchiness to it. You have to give it the deliberate energy it needs, and use good technique when riding it or it can be unforgiving.

Speed

A real bomber! I didn't feel the slightest shake at speed and minimal chatter. And for this type of board a 156 is a little undersized for me - it would be even better at speed in the 159. 

Uneven Terrain

Crud/Chunder: Handled it with the grace and ease of a gently coiling frozen yoghurt. OK, maybe not quite like that, but I found it just did not get bucked hardly at all, even at speed in and some really messy stuff.

Trees/Bumps: It's not that you necessarily can't get it going edge-to-edge quickly in tight spaces - it can, to an extent anyway, but it's pretty hard work. It would be fatiguing spending  a long time in the trees with it. But it would do well in powdered trees, I would say - especially based on my experience with the BSOD in trees with powder - it goes from hard work to amazing. 

Jumps

I found it to be a real stomper for landings but not super forgiving if you got it wrong. Good for experienced jumpers but probably too much for those just getting into jumping.

Pop: It has a really good amount of total pop - but you wouldn't know it if you didn't put in the work to load it up. Takes a good amount of effort to extract that pop, but when you do wind it up, it gives back plenty. 

Approach: Super stable for faster approaches or any approach that you don't have to make any adjustments for. Doesn't do as well when you need to make little adjustments.

Landing: Absolute stomper! When you get it right, but quite unforgiving if you don't land straight. There's enough tail there that tail heavy landings are all good. 

Side-hits: Not my ideal as you've got to work pretty hard to get its pop out and to make quick maneuvers. 

Switch

Doable and not bad, but not amazing. Transitions felt a little catchy.

Spins

It felt nice and light and had good pop (with effort) which I really like to have for spins.

But the setup was a little catchy. And landing and taking off switch wasn't ideal, though not terrible either.

It didn't have any issues with over-rotating after landing, but I did find it was quite difficult to finish an under-rotation after landing.

Butters

I found it took a good bit of effort to press but did lock in well when I was able to get it there. Definitely doesn't over flex!

The tail and nose did feel different with the tail being stiffer and shorter.

Rotating butters was a bit on the catchy side. 

Score Breakdown and Final Verdict

Check out the breakdown of the score in the table below.

The Mega Death is the kind of board that you've got to be quite aggressive with to get the best out of it. It demands a certain amount of energy and effort, but when it gets it, it doesn't disappoint with the energy it returns. 

Overall a sick board, but you've got to have the technique, strength and energy to give, to be able to access its best qualities.