We are not going to get far into this before I say the vocals are a point of contention. At first I thought the issue would be the programmed drums butthey are buried in the mix. The vocals are a shriek that sounds like a mongoloid being castrated. They are grating. This project does experiment and bring more sounds to the table than your average bed room black metal project. At times this is like the Wal Mart version of Agalloch. The acoustic sections are louder than the metallic moments. When they are meta they are going for black metal. There are melodic moments and pretty good guitar playing that got me to sick with this album.
On the second song there is some actual singing. It's not great singing , but it gets the job done and anything to make the other shrieking stop works for me. The third song " the Binding Light" is amost more like Pink Floyd. Early Pink Floyd...not the Wall era . It also could be described as post -rock. Whatever you want to call it , there is some great guitar tones and playing on this song. It is hard to say they are going for a sound rather than a song, when their shit does have more ebb and fow than you average back metal band.
The last song finds the song part of the equation really coming together . The big take away from this song is both good news and bad news. The screamed vocals are decently done here. This is a relief as it means a break from the annoying ones. The bad news means that the annoying screams were not just the best they could do but an artistic choice . A poor one but a choice all the same. This makes the last song the best one, but also forces me to around this abum down to a 7.5. Still better than most , just not something I am going to listen to more than a couple of times.
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