What first sounds like Swedish Sunlight Studios death metal, with consecutive listens reveals itself to be a complex, cosmical and progressive (!) DARK death metal classic. No headbanging or bulldozing, just discontinued, layered, almost improvised sounding tempos and careful execution, with a purity of feeling that reminds one of garages rather than fancy ”art halls”. At it’s time was the trendiest, most popular and most regular DARKTHRONE album, up to the point that the band themselves denied this album and the genre of death metal; ironically today this comes across as the least commercial and least calculated one of their albums.

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