Every time Samoth works on music, the result sounds more or less complex and demanding. It’s the same with THE WRETCHED END and Inroads, so that we can find playful tracks in the cut-set of atmospheric Black as well as rhythmic Death Metal.

Frenetic guitars, barking-aggressive vocals and floating measure changes dominate the scenery. In addition, the musicians offer emotional, for a bigger part dark and eerie keyboard sounds to intensify the mood. Hymnal guitar leads enrich the versatile spectrum of the opener Tyrant Of The Mountain. In further course, headstrong instrumental roller coaster rides and rolling measures are mingled to form an alliance of complexity and catchiness. Conjuring voices darken the horizon during the track Deathtopian Society, ere they are replaced by clumsy and grinding elements.
Bleak sounds in the background and an enthralling head banger-rhythm sum up to a downright hitting track called Death By Nature. The song features playful guitars and some experiments, but the overall view is compact, direct and not at all complicated. This is music to raise your fists, the best drug you can imagine!
Some slightly weird ingredients spice up Cold Iron Soul whereby the limit of enervating profiling is not exceeded. A short while later, a little bit chaotic Black Metal sequences and hard as a bone rolling Death Metal parts alternate during The Haunting Ground and overexcite my nerves. The next piece Fear Propaganda shows up in hectic and scatter-brained, but at the same time appealing style.
Afterwards, Blackthorn Winter elates with the best melody on this album, some surprising turns, contained elements and heroic clean vocals. The mighty tune Hunger oscillates between neck-friendly stomping drums and slightly weird arrangements; the acoustic punch line Throne Renowned Of Old holds modern vocal experiments and gets concluded by borne measures in really harmonious but unspectacular style.

Inroads takes care for oppressing and complex rhythmics, but also presents some melodic applications. This interplay sums up to a nice mixture of demand as well as down-to-earth heaviness, spiced with partly off-key insertions.