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A spiraling and winding descent into arcane black metal pandemonium Sounding both modern and timeless at the same time, they unleash some serious throwback Celtic Frost/ Darkthrone / early Mayhem vibes while projecting its hideous aura straight into the future with a shape- shifting approach to songwriting that can't be called anything different but "prog", while also throwing in the mix some unexpected ambient passages and improvisational liturgic abstractions (that yield a result of constant motion and disorienting unpredictability, as if we were facing a European version of Negative Plane or a more experimental reinterpretation of the arcane mysticism of Mortuary Drape. Show more