Which is by no means a bad thing! Particularly when one of Malist's main influences is the Eastern European scene with its love of melody as an essential black metal building block. And although if you squint you can detect progressive elements buried here and there such as the early Enslaved-esque touch of album highlight To Stifle the Fire in the Eyes, complete with acoustic guitar interlude and delicate leads, this is by and large old school, second-wave purity. on first listens, this is black metal 101. Yet it's less of a varied album, seemingly having a similar style from song to song jagged riffs, snarled vocals, blasting drums.
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In many ways this is simply more of the same although it's interesting that there are fewer, longer tracks, which helps songs to develop a little better in their own individual way for full hypnotic impact. Following up a tremendous debut album in last year's In the Catacombs of Time, Russian one-man-band Malist is back to build on his atmospheric style.
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