The Swedish dark metal band Dark Funeral's third album is a rotting signpost to their future depravity, containing many sonic blueprints for their later forays into the netherworld.
Lord Ahriman's unrelenting guitar style is already in place on a set that also features Emperor Magus Caligula's trademark awe-inspiring sulfurous vocal eruptions, songs devoted to the praise of Satan's hellish minions, in "The Black Winged Horde," and to Beelzebub himself in the ultimate, devastating "Ineffable King of Darkness.".