A strange and unique release indeed. To sum this up, I have to begin by saying that everything on this album is very...unexpected, and consequently, albeit primitive in it's element, the promo is a keeper. The songs on the release are so horrendously sloppy that it takes a good amount of straining to hear the guitars, et all, out from the fuzz and static. However, when you can do this you'll see the ingenious ideas behind the song constructions; an example being the fabulous intro. which features strange plainsong (chant) hymns, and other distorted phenomena. The BM aspects of this album are very characteristic of Graveland; we see simple and primitive structures clashing together with wave upon wave of emotion and melody, producing the evocative and transcendental atmospheres that albums such as "Celtic Winter" reveal unto the listener. I am relatively sure that the drums are synthetic, yet in either case they seem to compliment the music surprisingly well. For comparison, you might imagine the drum programming found on "Nightshade Forests," with it's characteristic "WAR- drum" sounding percussives. Overall, I would say that this promotional is very much akin to Command and Evil; overly simplistic and primitive. Lacking from both of those bands however is the atmosphere that Graveland flawlessly produces. Check this one out.

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