Release Year: 2017
Artist Origin: ENG
Style: vicious intricate death black metal
intriguing and forward-thinking, initial longplay from 1999 by then fresh British formation has turned into a significant event in quite conservative black metal scene both with a provoking image, intensively spreading blasphemous satanic psycho-sexual message, and admittedly atypical creative ideas, involving ominous death metal rudiments and eerie atonal wanderings, strengthened by seductively avantgarde female backing vocals and evocative spoken word samples, enhancing the genuinely disquieting atmosphere ; in a way the whole package sounded a bit messy but that was a part of the grand plan, eventually inspiring such notorious projects as Anaal Nathrakh; recent British digipak re-issue