黄泉より聴こゆ、皇国の燈と焔の少女

This album, just like all of their albums before this is a crazy work of high energy melodic death metal with many other genres such as gothic metal and power metal.

First off, the album has lots of synthesis between clean vocals and growls or screams. This makes it well balanced for the most part, however, I do think the album could use some more of the growls as have been seen in previous albums. Even though they aren't using as much rough vocals as they have in their previous albums, it doesn't really make a huge impact on the score for the album.

Secondly, the orchestration in the album is unreal. I myself am not a huge symphonic metal fan, however, in this album it greatly contributes to the gothic feel of the album, along with providing a calm relief from some of the heavier sections. This is best exemplified in the titular song which I will just abbreviate to Yomi Yori, as it is too long to name completely. Yomi Yori has a few parts that repeat which, although they aren't all the same style of music, they all fit together wonderfully. There is a whole lot of orchestration backing up the entire piece and it makes the piece more listenable than it would be otherwise.

The only main grievance for me is that the other two songs featured on the album aren't as dynamic as Yomi Yori. Both of them, although they are songs, don't have much distinction between movements, nor do they have much of a relief from the high energy guitar solos, making them seem unmemorable compared to Yomi Yori. The second track on the album is definitely more of a culprit of this, as the whole song except for the chorus is crazy fast guitars and drums with little to no melody to be found. The third song on the album is more melodic, so it almost suffers from the opposite, where there almost no rough vocals backing up the extremity of the rest of the album. The orchestral version of Yomi Yori is very cool if you want to listen to how the orchestration backs up the entire piece, but otherwise isn't an essential part of the album.

All in all, the album has great songs and is a great one to listen to as they slightly shift their style to one more melodic. Would strongly recommend a listen to it.