From Bandcamp, "Here we find ourselves, among the Canadian miscreants EGREGORE whereupon they return from whence the wind howls like a damned choir and the Earth knows no master, to chart a broader sonic wilderness via "It Echoes in the Wild." Much as sea-rogues and freebooters sought fortune upon blackened waters, so too does EGREGORE venture musically into diabolic and ungoverned lands. Presenting something more expansive, elemental and untamed, the early occult Black Death Metal lunacy embraces atmospheric breadth equally alongside primitive force to delve deep into not only geographic wilds, but the psychological, esoteric and spiritual hinterlands at the edges of complete madness. Dark invocations and secret tongues draw forth echoes from forest and fen, cave and cliff, tempting the temporally tethered to receive the curse, all the while driven by a primal, unknowable sardonic menace. Though the voyage be perilous, to succumb to it has become ensconced in a lawless dominion of the soul in service of a higher call."

The album has ten songs, and "Cast Adrift" is first. It's a short mood-setter, and the mood is dark, tense, and reeks of death. Segueing into "Voice on the West Wind," is a fast-moving, dark, and aggressive sound that features vocals that are whispered at times. The guitars have a thrashy blueprint, but this is death and black metal through and through. It's filthy, black, and staining. "Stare into the Vortex" has some real bombast from drum and cymbal crashes and another fast-moving and contentious riff, and like a punk song, it burns fast and hot and is over before you know it. "Craven Acts of Desperate Men" borders on chaos from thick guitar riffs and a fast vocal delivery. In keeping the listener on their toes and immersed in the album, they shift and sound and pace several times. The high pitched vocal screams are unusual, but they do work well with the music.

"Corsairs of the Daath Gulf" is shorter, even darker, and comes with a side of mystery. The whispered vocals offer much of that feeling for me. It plows forward like a machine on auto-pilot, completing the routine task of chopping heads off. That groove is CATCHY. "Nightmare Cartographer" is a slab of hardened metal that is a bit experimental as well, meaning that they don't seem to want to follow the bands that preceded them. This is a good thing, because it gives them their own identity. Some might even call the music Progressively tinged. "Six Doors Guard the Original Knowledges" is another song where they abandon the blueprint of their forefathers and just make their own path down to the pit of the abyss. There is a hasty quality to the song, like you are being chased, or only have seconds to make a life and death decision.

The lengthy title track closes the album, clocking in at just under 10 minutes. There's a lot of sonority packed into these 10 minutes, and like shapeshifter, it is constantly on the move. The lead breaks are fantastic as well. Canadian miscreants indeed. I love the boldness of the band to just break through the traditions of the genre and create their own monster. Yeah, the nostalgia of their forefathers is still there in spades, but this is very much their own creation. It's furious, filthy, and dark, as any good Death or Black Metal album should be.