The album’s 45 minutes are divided among only four tracks, and thus each one of them is formidably long. Each of them also shares certain fundamental qualities: massive chords rendered with stunningly corrosive levels of distortion; bone-deep bass lines; drums that sound like gunshots and bomb bursts; and gritty, venomous vocals that fanatically scream, snarl, and roar. They also move slowly, at the speed of rot. The music often moans and groans like the last agonies of a leviathan crawling toward the graveyard of its kind, or whines in shattering pain, or looms like a towering black monolith of horror. The album has four songs.

“Ordure Alpha” is first. The opening tones are both heavy and hopeless, including the use of the infamous “Devil’s Fifth” riff. Close to the half-way mark it takes a brief pause before the maddening tones continue and listen to those bass notes…they could break through titanium. “Cour Bestiale” is even more desperate. The guitar and bass work are very swampy and done with plenty of feedback. It makes them sound as if they come from a hole so deep that there is no bottom. After the midway point the band explores a bit, but the punishing and relentless pain never lets up even a bit. “Uniformol” features vocals so harsh they sound like instances of vomiting over and over again, in the best way possible, if that makes sense, and the backing sounds are so thick, you could slowly die in them like quicksand. After the half-way mark, the drums get going and it sounds like a freight train running towards you.

“Demain Charogne” closes the album. The band dials up the heaviness if that is even possible, and double down on the desolation. There is absolutely no absolution to be found anywhere in or near this album. Overall, although all four songs are similar in length, scope, and sound, their effect on the listener can’t be underscored. The heavy, sludgy sound is so thick and deep, it builds at your feet to the point where there is no escape. It is desolation personified.