Title: Tepid, but an improvement
Review: "Ravishing Grimness" was awful and this album corrects many of those problems, but still doesn't rise above burnt out and so ends up being pleasant black-metal-y background music. Fenriz and company have the black metal science refined to formula, and the resulting pop sounds nearly like surf music from an apocalyptic world. Guitars saw through toneful and melodic riffing but always return to a Celtic-Frost-influenced darkness and disharmony. It's bouncy in rhythm and the vocals are as always great, but there's nothing here to draw a repeat listen. It is wiser to enjoy this band at their prime.
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