From the ritual music of Taoist ceremonies, Fog's latest released album returns to the motif of his very beginning, ghost story telling, leading us to the other side of the religion: the occult sorcery to tame the spirit of the dead. The sticky roaring speaks of the profound desire of human and the intense resentment of the dead. The coarse riffs corresponds to the sharp wails as the haunting dead asking for the life of the one who has been cursed by the shaman.

Although the thick wall of irresistible noise raids in the beginning, the narrator's muffled voice pierces the wall and tells the mysterious essence of the world in the way of arrangement in true BM, which is a brand new experience.

The second release of Inferno Forest provides the gloomy atmosphere from the primordial nature, crushing the well-installed man-made one. The crude truth and real world rout the hypocrisy of eco-friendliness among the marching treemen.

Mongolian Golden Horde Tetralogy is one of the master piece of Inferno Requiem. The epic depicting the significant yellow peril represents the mature musical style and ethos of IR. It's the magnificent result of Fog's diligent research in the forgotten history as well. If you are a firm supporter of the orthodox true BM, it definitely a compilation must have.

This is an amazing EP from Immortal Forest. Based on the orthodox BM style, they arranged rawness and melodiousness perfectly. It presents a sense like one winds in a vast forest in the middle of the night, surrounded by an atmosphere filled with coldness and grotesqueness. The roaring of the vocal tells spectral and occult events happened in it.

The second album of Cetus presents a different atmosphere from the S/T one. It disseminates a sense of strangeness and continues the tone of darkness and coldness in the previous piece, corresponding to the faraway and unfolding margin of the universe, showing its status with regularity in chaos and chaos in regularity, that is a true sunyata.

Nüwa is a notable piece. It remains the aggression in "Gloomy Night Stories" and discloses a cold atmosphere with a sense of science fiction. The ancient Chinese mythology was re-interpreted by another distinctive extraterrestrial perspective. An epic accounting for the conspiracy planned by the intelligent life from outer space thousands years ago begins with Fog's roaring.

As the second part of the tetralogy, IR is continuing the dark eastern romance of fierce Mongolian troopers in this split; Abigail brings their typical the filth and evil sound consistently as well. The modern "yellow peril" has waged war on the corrupted black metal scene of the east Asia!!

In a sense, IR's latest release "Shanhai" continues the concept of previous full-length album, Nüwa. Fog eruditely explores the unholy and unorthodox side of the ancient Chinese myths that may be related to extraterrestrial creatures and conspiracies. The album is varied from IR's previous works, less aggressive but remaining raw and cold, more like to illustrate the stories from the treacherously distant memory of the past to the listeners in a fluid way.

Different from the previous topic related to ancient mythology and extra-terrestrial beings and the overflowing sense of profound dullness and occultism, Fog presents an ambiance with vast and verdant forest in the north and immenseness of the assemblage of stern marching cavalry in the latest work. Not like other so-called black metal band in Taiwan, the world view and imagination of IR is never limited by the narrow sights and narcissism pervading the island.

The new release album is another great piece filled with Fog's deliberation. It brings a sense of pervasive nihility by deploying the dry and frosty riffs. Pace by pace, following the stable flow of the rhythm, a framing scene of darkness surrounds as a sudden mist, leading the listener to imagine a vast occult outer space beyond the sky perceived by human's nude eyes and meager knowledge. Highly recommended!