Postmodernity made people afraid of conflict, so even metalheads make music that dodges the inherent clash needed for change: droning melodic black metal where riffs follow each other not in a dialogue but in a passing conversation which resolves nothing after hours.

Vintegral aims for a more sentimental but action-driven take on music with this album of militant funeral dirges that borrow heavily from Swedish melodic death metal like early Merciless or Sacramentum fused with Enslaved and Graveland style sweeping high-energy melodic black metal.

If this album has a weakness, it is that songs are very similar to each other, but this helps it maintain a theme, and over time more variety may develop, and unlike most black metal, this actually has a point and discusses it like men with knives and not hipsters in coffee shops.

Tags: Black Metal, melodic black metal, Melodic Death Metal, vintegral