There actually is a lot of Black metal on offer on this year's list, isn’t there! This is from the Italian outfit, and it is a highly ambitious collection of five tracks that essentially merge together into a single pulsating piece of music. This is highly convoluted and massively ambitious black metal. It uses the traits of the genre as a storytelling tool in which to paint an expansive picture. Everything feels big in terms of this record. The sonics are big. The guitars sound big and the aspirations are enormous. Very much a magnum opus.