Adding some Voidvodish flavor to a framework of Emperorish black metal, Ad Inferos offers up a very cool title track sounding both barbaric and futuristic at the same time. Then, oddly enough, they move into a different style for the rest of the tracks. The second track is a meandering folk metal tune not too far from Aeternus' more folky moments. Tracks 3-5 are doomy metal with clean and rough vocals. The songs are quite reminiscent of Decoryah's first album (dreary yet gothicy doom). The music is OK I guess, and it is fairly cool that a band might not stick to one specific genre, but this just sounds like a mix tape a buddy made for you. Ah, just found a note in the j-card - the doomy songs are re-releases from an old demo . . should've left them there.

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