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One cool-beans factor in this one-man Finnish curio is that, upon successive spins, it plays first like a black metal record and then like a death metal one. It’s like one of those cool optical illusion pictures that looks like an old lady or a young woman depending on your perspective. So yep, here you can behold either the palpable brutality or the seething misanthropy, both striving to make themselves heard in equal measure. Aesthetic variety, however, does not guarantee aesthetic nuance, much less quality. Songs don’t begin and end so much as they show up, stick around and go away, trying a few ideas in the interim to see what works. Little does, certainly not most of the industrial samples and percussive snippets that loiter all around this eight-songer. Well, seven, actually, ‘cause wouldn’t ya know it, the album is prefaced by one of those terminally boring ambient/symphonic intros that make you wonder why it’s longer than the first proper song that follows. Best songs come at the end, and wouldn’t ya know it, they’re the weirdest and most eclectic in the bunch. No question, there are some good ideas contained therein, but they’re stymied by a lack of focus, to say nothing of a programmed drum snare that sounds like a popcorn machine at a Saturday matinee. Wowzers.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Intro - The Dreaming Leviathan |
| 2. Prophecy |
| 3. The Cursed History of the Fallen |
| 4. Kuoleman | kunnia |
| 5. Obsessed Part I - The Annihilation |
| 6. Obsessed Part II - The Conquering |
| 7. Bloodlust and the Forbidden Home |
| 8. Outro - The Signs of Sorrow |
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