✦✦✧✧ This is everything I’ve come to expect from American black metal, for good and for ill. I will say that these songs tend toward brevity, which is a very good thing.

✦✧✧✧ Well, at least this one has guitars in it. Otherwise, this is one uninspiring bit of Cascadian black metal.

★☆☆☆ This album is very good for what it is… which is to say, not in the least bit metal. I think I heard a guitar somewhere around minute 22 of this Vangelis-of-the-damned soundscape. Otherwise, you’re left with the feeling like this is an interlude that somehow got loose and pushed out all the dirgy doom that was the mainstay of the band’s previous album.