The 11th album from this band from Norway.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.
The band returned again after a three years long break. The break was used to slim down to a quintet and some members who had been with the band since the start quit the band.
Simen Vortex Hestenes became the main vocalist now, after taking over from Andreas Vintersorg Hedlund. This band is Øystein Brun's band and he has been the constant song writer in this band.
The band has also jumped from black metal to viking metal on this one hour long album.
There are still some harsh black metal like vocals here. Most of the music is far more melodic this time and in the epic viking metal vein. There are still some pretty brutal stuff on this album.... and some progressive rock too.
The keyboards and guitars are good here. Ditto for the vocals.
The opening couple of songs are good before the music drops somewhat in quality. Some of the pieces of music here is a bit too pedestrian and not so engaging.
The result is a pretty good album who just falls a bit short. It is still an album well worth checking out.
2.5 points
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