Probably my fav atmospheric black metal album of all time. The melodies are served as a perfect payoff after enduring the harsh black metal parts. The endings of "Negative Megalomania" and "Blood and Concrete" are probably my favorite music moments of all time (together with the solo on Necrophagist's "Advanced Corpse Tumor"). I remember hearing this the first time shortly after it got released - I was 20 back then, it was a cold winter day and I was on the bus on my way to the university. I can still remember the moment the ending riffs of Negative Megalomania kicked in. 15 years later this gloomy mixture of horror and hope, darkness and light, hate and love still pulls the same emotional strings it did back then. Masterpiece.
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