A very solid album. Heavy and abundant with memorable, folky melodies and traditional instrumentation. Often the vocal delivery and song structure has a narrative vibe, like you're listening to a raw or sometimes melancholic story. It's a very cohesiveness album that once started, will go buy in a flash and beg you to play it again. Perfect for whether you are swinging a beer or swinging a sword.

It's an interesting album that's taken me time to really digest. In essence, it's a continuation on the path set by on the band's first album. It's progressive metal with a strong black metal influence. There's a mix of sung and heavy vocals, aggressive and soft playing and more than a few genre curveballs. When the album is on course, it's darkly majestic, but the new inclusion of bright indie rock, grunge and even punkiness sticks out in the sonic landscape and draws the listener off course.

This is a masterwork album boiling with dark, brooding atmosphere and emotion; but there are also moments of light. The album starts off with an incredible, strong intensity that, while faltering somewhat in the middle, colours the whole journey. When the final song ends (before bonus tracks), the listener is left in a state of deep retrospection upon what they have just experienced.