It may have taken 10 years, but MkM has finally appeared on another album worthy of his voice.
The first two songs, as well as a few deeper into the album, are like forgotten Antaeus songs from the CYFAWS era seen through the lens of “Battles in the North”-era Immortal. The rest is like the more ambitious and experimental stuff from “Blood Libels”, but without the passages where it sounds like the band couldn’t figure out a way to continue the song, so they simply decided to bash on a random four-chord riff.