Black Metal music with an experimental edge can be hit and miss. But when it is done well, it can turn out fantastic. Just look at the likes of A FOREST OF STARS and TOMBS, and you can see that using Black Metal as a base from which to build a range of brilliant soundscapes and some genuinely brilliant music. Poland's ENTROPIA are one such band, mixing Post Metal and Sludge in with Black Metal, to fantastic results.

The track that this album opens on is "Dante", which is a brilliant piece of Post Black Metal, which is at some points hair-raisingly good. It's the shortest track on the album by almost four minutes, but its grim atmosphere and riffs set the tone for the next five songs. "Gauss" has some really fantastic, icy Black Metal riffs, contrasted perfectly with the drums and the vocals, which sound just as ferocious as the guitars sound serene. The ten minute epic that is "Pascal" is a song that gradually builds up, starting out with a very basic sounding guitar riff which slowly begins to get bigger, before exploding into life after three and a half minutes. For there onward, the song ebbs and flows through various different sounds, mesmerizing the listener.

The albums title track is another song which maintains a steady pace throughout, and seems to be building to some bombastic Black Metal juggernaut, but never quite reaches it, being, more or less, a fairly standard, but nonetheless great, Post Metal tune. "Tesla", which starts with a sound bite, falls headlong into a fierce Black Metal track, with a few Post Metal flourishes thrown in, once the music kicks into gear. It's a great song, even by the lofty standards set by the preceding songs, and stands as one of the best tracks on this record. The song which closes this album, "Marat", opens with some thick, dissonant chords reminiscent of TRIPTYKON, and then turns into a Post Metal track, with some really powerful sounding and inspired drumming driving the album to its conclusion. I think that one of the key things which makes this album great is the atmosphere that is embodied in the music throughout the whole album, and helps enhance the already brilliant music.

This is a very good Post Black Metal album. I'd rate it highly, alongside some of the most recent output of bands like DEAFHEAVEN and ALTAR OF PLAGUES, and even go as far as to say that it is, at points, better than both these bands. Hopefully this album will give the band the larger audiences that they thoroughly deserve, and see them recognized as one of the masters of this particular branch of the might Black Metal tree.