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This band has been kicking around since 1990, and their discography is thick with EPs, splits, compilations, and demos, but this is only their third full-length album. You would expect a band this old to sound old-school, and they do in a lot of ways. I like the churning, downtuned riffs with the unexpected runs of complex melody. I like the inimical production that crushes everything into a single cauldron of boiling sound, and I like the off-kilter, chaotic songwriting that does not settle for verse/chorus/verse/chorus. There's a degree of malign evil at work that reminds me of Beherit in the old days, along with similar underground shit like Wind from The Black Mountains or maybe even Krieg—a dedication to the sound of evil that you don't get often these days. A throwback to the times when Black Metal was evil first and music second, but the music is still pretty fucking cool.