Morbid Funeral’s second album is a clear progression and an obvious growth from their first release. The production this time around has improved dramatically as well as the general song structure, the drums still sound plastic and artificial at some points, but the great thing and the great surprise was the return of female session singer Shirleny Arroyo, in COS.MI.KA. she sounds balance, spontaneous, fitting for the role, and she made me eat my words (I was kind of hard on her on a previous Morbid Funeral review); well that happens when you have a big mouth, and hell do I have a big mouth.

This album is cleaner, and possibly a bit more melodic than “Desolate Landscape Of The Human Soul”, perhaps that’s because the guitars have improved a great deal and now they can incorporate more complex riffs.

Let’s go track by track:
Cos.Mi.Ka. Revolution: useless intro track even though the sort of watery sounds are kind of cool, but from there on, it doesn’t really enhances or prepares you for the album.

Falling In The Spiritual Necropolis: Raw black metal squeals, simple but effective guitar riffs, and a decent drum work; in this track there are parts, mainly on the double bass segment that the drums sound artificial, but the rest is pretty raw black metal stuff. The tempo changes are interesting and appropriate, very well tough and executed.

In Natura Astra: Spanish lyrics give the track a different approach and “feeling” to the entire song, perhaps one of the catchiest tracks on the album. some segments, some riffs are a nice blend of black sharp tunes, and rock ‘n’ roll rhythms that let the bass sound clear and heavy as hell; some nice solos are placed here and there showing the extend of Morbid Funeral’s talent.

Astral Black Mist: The song has a great start, very “groovy” and attractive, very heavy metal going as fast as it can thanks to the nice guitars and well timed drums; the solos are back just to introduce the vocals, and this is when it hit me, maybe they should consider a different approach on the vocal aspect, since the guitars are great as well as the bass, but when the vocals appear they sound weak after some great guitar riffs; the deep growls are way better than the black metal squeals leading the way. None the less the best track on the album.

And A Black Rose (2002): Nice ballad that helped Shirleny expose herself once again, but this time around she showed me she can sing, nice interpretation, and a great vocal effect placed on her segments. This track reminds me of the great German band Agathodaimon, you can tell is a ballad, for the melodic and calm guitars but the black metal vocals are there to give it that extra “punch”.

Stellar Requiem: The final track, it’s pretty much a continuation of the intro track, some “watery” sounds, like a witch boiling cauldron and nothing more, pretty boring really.