Methadrone is a US solo project of Craig Pillard's, who also plays bass in the renowned doom metal band Evoken. "Sterility" is a somber and mostly subdued album based on guitar strumming, keyboards and some drum programming here and there. As a whole, it reminded me of a less ethereal incarnation of Lycia, which seems so be fitting as David Galas sings the only two tracks with vocals ("Self Relinquishment" and "Continuum of Decline"), besides mastering and editing the album. Oddly enough, though, the sung tracks, with their epic and despondent vocals, are closer to Neurosis, A Storm of Light and Swans in their more "gothic" phase. The grey-tinged tonality of the cd is eventually shaken by "Final Transmission", an industrial metal tour-de-force which alternates light and shadow not unlike Methadrone's label mates Nadja.