After bemoaning the state of or more accurately the deterioration of the Blackgaze scene, here is yet another stunningly good album that proficiently builds upon its legacy. This is an immaculate example of strident, modern songwriting. It’s an album that streams with elemental power and just feels utterly alive with both potential and ambition. There is so much going on, so many ideas and so much inventive innovation.

You think everything has been done with guitar music and then you hear this. Yes squealing guitars are leading us on but in a way that feel remarkably different to what we are used to. Everything leaps out at you, in a three-dimensional multilayered way. Short, sharp and ballistically incisive. This is a wonderful evolution of heavy music.