Unusually Swedish-sounding black metal from Germany. Album definitely proves a big piece of work done made by people who are obviously playing this type of music since many years.
The variety of song structures and the sophisticated bulid-ups and unexpected sections stun and instantly recall late 90's bands like mid era Sacramentum, and even a more recent band Valkyrja. In fact I'd say the excellent first Valkyrja LP is sub-par to this album. There is definitely a lot of things going on, even too much of the information within this grand work so that at first few listens it may seem a bit too much.But the replay value still remains high so that it eventually reveals to be a very fluent and enjoyable listening experience. Lyrics deal with orthodox black metal matters, but in a storytelling way that does not deal much with the "I" approach at all. There is a lot of good riffs here, some very simple yet effective, others nicely complicated but never crossing the border into being overambitious. All these little things that shine and the solid structure that hold them firmly and make this LP a really convincing and inspired output. As said the replay value is relatively high even despite the fact that this band sound-wise owes a lot to the already pre '08 heavily bloomed orthodox bm genre.
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