This is my opinion, as all Arcturus albums, groundbreaking for the genre; one of the best records I own. Pronounced creative and complex songs (not as guitar-heavy as "Aspera ...", but even a little less hard than the successor to "The Sham .."). The slanted keyboard passages and brilliant vocal parts of Garm (technically really demanding vocals) create in addition to the perfect matching guitars and drums by Hellhammer, which has no equal in any case, the right spine-tingling atmosphere. For people who do not want to give zurfieden with simple music, because even after 30.x you can still marvel at the ingenuity of songwriting