Reviewed by Greg Sammons

Evroklidon hail from the Ukraine - home of label-mates Holy Blood - and deliver raw, atmospheric black metal that pounds, rips, and thrashes from start to finish. The band manage to exude this primal rawness while maintaining high production standards, producing an assault on the senses that is brutal yet (in black metal terms) listenable. This really isn't music for people new to the harder end of rock, this is for serious fans of metal. If you're not a fan of black, death or goth metal, then there's probably little point you investigating this album as to the untrained ear it would sound just like noise! That aside, fans of the Scandinavian black metal bands will be able to draw comparisons with many of its finest, in fact they sound more Norwegian than East European. Were it not for the Slavic tongue peppered around the predominantly English lyrics, one could easily assume that was from where Evroklidon hailed. Lyrics-wise, there is no doubt as to what the band believe in, the lyrics talk about spiritual war (the staple diet of Christian metal acts) and the temptation of sin - with scriptural references to back it all up. Fans of the genre will salivate over a very creative duo (with a little help from their friends), creating well-produced but brutal music.

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