Nox brings forward a typhoon of riffs, blastbeats and death screams that even when they are all placed and stuck in the same small space, they all manage to keep their own sound and “personality”; all this thanks to a clear and intelligent production that knew how to find room for brutality and a lucid song structure that gathers strength in the most basic of all metal ideas… the riffs! And that is Ixaxaar strength, that despite all the at times mayhem tempos and brutal rhythms they always find a way to put some catchy, memorable guitars in the background that help the songs don’t get totally out of control. A perfect example of this is the simple guitar line on “Darkness Undying” a song that doesn’t seem to have a clear shape or structure is grounded thanks to some catchy guitars that appear when the sonic mayhem seems to be getting out of control; and this formula is a constant through out the short 33 minutes of playing time, but that’s good because the guys actually knew that you cannot maintain and album as brutal and variable as this one for more than 40 minutes, otherwise it would have become one big cloying of brutality that would have been though to swallow.

Nox takes the basic idea that other bands like, Deicide (but way more technical and talented), and Nile use in their death metal approach, to create extremely heavy riffs, fast songs that don’t try to satisfy any other crowd but to the ones looking for speed and brutality, for the ones looking for crude death metal.