Release Year: 2020
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: intricate dynamic infernal black metal
following a four year break since the previous album, setting a recording session with Pytten in legendary Grieghallen studios in Bergen, masters of blackened melody adjust their direction, bidding farewell to linear nineties tradition and greeting the new millennium with much more refined, diverse, ambitious, bombastic and orchestral approach [2001] where epic arrangements within significantly longer tracks take leading role, and vocal variety adds in more menacing, darker vibe, not so uncommon in death metal too; add to that some acoustic breaks, heavy metal solos, not to forget trademark infernal riffing, and you get a picture of what to expect from this quite underrated release, standing in league with latter Diabolical Masquerade opuses; recent French digipak edition comes with new liner notes in twelve page booklet