Wanderings

The music on this album is very under-produced, but I am certain that this is what this project was intended for. The music utilizes razor sharp guitars that sound out of tune at times, but not often and the constant marching of the drumming creates a very cold, desolate atmosphere that really does leave the listener feeling as though they are lost and "wandering" (pun clearly intended).

The second track, "Fragments", is quite possibly the grimmest piece of music I have ever heard. The piercing sharpness of the guitar that swells and wraps around you makes you feel uncomfortable and it builds up until the grimmest riff of all comes in to choke you out and leave you broken and weak in the snow. This riff is very simple and is repeated throughout the entire song. The production surely does help this riff feel so desolate. If there was one song that I would want to be played as I bleed to death alone in the snow-covered forest, it would be this one. THAT DOES NOT GIVE ANYONE PERMISSION TO DO THAT TO ME. Just had to put that out there.

The album continues along the same pattern, and the riffs are essentially very simple and repeated many times throughout the songs. The vocals are rather strange and are a sort of a twisted snarling that I cannot say I enjoy too much. At times it seems as if the vocalist is not trying to show emotion or is being lazy. The album doesn't really have any more highlights after the track that I had mentioned before, but nonetheless, this album is full of desolate music which will not comfort the listener in any way at all.

This album has become a sort of cult classic in the USBM underground and rightfully so. It certainly does stay true and "kvlt" in terms of poor production and creating an atmosphere of utmost desolation and grimness. This album is recommended for disturbed people who are true to the roots of cold black metal.