Release Year: 2023
Artist Origin: NOR
Style: relentless cruel apocalyptic black metal
nine purely merciless and insanely raging black metal apparitions blast their way through severe punishing areas of ferocious, intense sound on the third studio album [2004] of then-reformed apocalyptic power trio, turning into a purely lunatic roller coaster ride of neck-breaking, barbaric and quite twisted riffs, backed up by enthusiastic drumming of returning Anti Christian, let alone the trademark screech of Nag, revealing significantly cleaner, refined sound, precisely arranging shifting tempos, shrill guitars and ritualistically pulsing rhythm, thereby intensifying the cold-breathing aggression, while Bathory Sacrifice cover lets some fundamentally dark feeling in, making this opus one of the fiercest black metal albums coming from Scandinavia in early naughties; recent French re-issue comes with four previously unreleased live tracks, including Beherit cover, recorded in Quebec in 2001