The production is certainly a key to the albums effectiveness it has such a barren, windswept and lo-fi air to it with the guitar roaring like mournful slowed chainsaws mixing in with the sorrowful deep growls and often weaved with mournfully melodic slow synth  marches and eastern melancholy monk chants. Then there’s the more drifting and ambient moments were pyha builds a breathtaking feeling of haunted loss and dieing in the mud despair- with a mixture of subtle synth textures, field recordings, chattering and pained oriental voices. This is clearly one of the most emotional and effecting black metal albums I’ve ever heard that really hits you at gut level with it’s mixture of angry, disgust and grim despair and it’s made all the more amazing when you find out that most of these tracks were recorded by a 12 year old Korean kid in his bedroom in 2005.

Truly a breathtaking, haunting and very emotionally effecting slice of blacked metal craft which is one of the great discoveries/ surprise’s of this year. This will definitely be hitting very high in my end of year list.