I wanted to like this. Blackwinds are an extreme old-school BM band ripping out homages to the second-wave luminaries like Mayhem and Darkthrone. I admire the sentiment, and this isn't done poorly, it's just not done well enough to make up for a complete lack of originality. This has a good guitar tone, and bashes out some good bits, but I just don't find this compelling, and it does not really stand out from the eight billion other old-school wannabes in any way.