There is a big misconception regarding the potential within black metal music, some believe it should just be played raw and simple, something similar to what the early punk movement in the UK believed his genre should sound like; but bands like Arcturus and Bathory have showed us that there is an enormous potential for beauty, intricate melodies and complex ideologies hidden within black metal, is not just about Satanism, and Sabaoth has taken upon them to let us know just how beautiful and intriguing black metal can be.

The album is an amalgam of rhythms and moods, some are dark and aggressive, others are depressing and some smell like doom metal (a big influence in many of the lyrics portrayed here); there is not a single moment in which you can question the black metal aroma, and that’s thanks to the raw squeals interpreted with precision and layering themselves in a great way with every single tempo change.

A song like “Time No Longer Exists” shows every single element Sabaoth uses to write their songs, the guitars can go from maniacs playing monotonous riffs, to sweet melodies storming into rock n’ roll ballads, some instrumental segments reminds you of the way Opeth likes to lash some of their tracks together.

In “Sabaoth” you can also find your more straight up black metal track, like in the song “Star Shaped Sky” the shortest track on the album, I think that song is there just to show us that they can play the regular stuff. “Where Everything Is Born (Southern Lands)” is one of the longest tracks on the record, but you don’t feel it that way thanks to the well located rhythms that flow thought it.

Perhaps my only complain with this album is the keyboard arrangements, they have a good idea, they just sound so very…plastic; the rest is great, the clean vocals place on the background add some evil to the songs, the drums are solid and when they need to sound dirty and raw they do, but when the songs enter one of their many tempo changes they adjust to present a cleaner atmosphere; in general, a great album that will end up leaving a taste for complex black metal on your soul