Mixing Melodeath and Black Metal doesn't work, as this album demonstrates. This is because the catchiness, heaviness and general feel of Melodeath cannot work alongside drony, sparse Black Metal atmospheres. The track least influenced by Black Metal is hence the best: 'Isthar (Celebrate Your Beauty)' feels exciting and intense, and has a nasty guitar solo. Sadly the rest of the album, with its preoccupation with Black Metal-y atmosphere, just drones and meanders on without anything to grab the listener.
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