Release Year: 2007
Artist Origin: NOR
Style: massive bombastic orchestral black metal
ripened for four years, this ferocious monster of an album, seventh for the notorious Norwegian heavy-weights, makes no shame to epic grandiose atmospheric black metal genre - ominous, outrageous and pretty harmonious music is framed under kicking-ass, modern, sharply triggered and indeed heavy production, whilst poignant antichristian tendency is as never strong within argumented lyrical contribution, further extended on convincing promotional videos; authentic German edition comes with a massive 32 page booklet and includes extra multimedia player with bonus The Serpentine Offering video