Refreshing and brutal with an unbelievably epic scope. It has an all-absorbing power, like an unforgiving, hungry vortex that sucks you in, never letting you go. There is also something vaguely (and genuinely) spiritual/divine that creeps through the darkness and appears here and there, which is now not commonly found in the genre. I'd say it's the best Extreme Metal album I've heard all year, that was released this year.
