Second full-length for this UK post-black metal project, after the acclaimed 2003 debut "The Ichneumon Method" on the now defunct label Rage of Achilles, and the "Physical Illucinations..." ep on Code666. While this is still most definitely "metal", industrial and dark ambient influences play a big role, not as mere samples or filler tracks, but deeply pervading the song structures and arrangements. The result is a totally oppressive and obscure work, surely closer to a hypothesis of extreme industrial doom (also for the guttural low-pitched vocals) than to black metal in a strict sense, even when it's filled with electronic influences (I'm thinking of mighty Aborym, for example). The tracks tend to indulge in mid- or slow-tempos, with fragmented or morbidly psychedelic guitar lines, rather than in breakneck assaults. Though here and there there is still too much metal riffage for my tastes, and some repetitive solutions (see the drum programming), this is a convincing, and truly suffocating, work.