What a dense release. It is straight up post-metal in the vein of the Ocean, but with much less melody and a greater emphasis on wall of sound texturing (especially the screaming vox, which generally bleed into the distorted guitars and are painfully unintelligible). While I can appreciate what's going on a bit (a concept album framed around an insane narrator's bizarre and tormented fantasy world), after a bunch of listens it's just not that enjoyable.

2.5/5 - I wanted to like this more, but the Ocean does this style a whole lot better.