I heard a bit of this Dutch band's The Christhunt, which I believe is their first album, wasn't to impressed with it back then, but I was blown away by their "The Grand Grimoire", so when I got a chance to hear this album I was quite thrilled. Somehow it doesn't do the same for me, I mean it's still fast and furious death metal with a black touch, but the black touch seems a bit more dominant then it was before, some more heavy metal type stuff too. Also the guitars sound thin, far from as crushing and destructive as on "The Grand Grimoire", other then that the production is almost the same. When it comes to albums that sound aggressive, I usually go by what does it make me feel like... does it make me want do destroy something? Smash something? Crush something into little bits and pieces? "The Grand Grimoire" could do that, this album can for the most part not. It is still a fine album, mostly in the vein of "The Grand Grimoire", just not quite as angry, but still worth a bit of attention.

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