SKULLFLOWER/MASTERY - S/T

"Skullflower presents a trinity of sombre meditations evoking Europe after the rain, drowned ruins, sunken dreams: spiders run across harpsichords in deserted schlosses and chateaux, doors slam and phantom demon choirs are summoned at s_ɬ©ances by Blavatskian crones, whose impenetrable china blue dolls eyes open onto Tibetan vistas, terrible, ancient, and remote. Mastery is improvised one-man cosm(ag)ick. Total berzerker black metal, rooted in the tradition of true grim blackness, but filtered through Masterys cracked perception, transforming this into something beyond true; a droned-out and damaged, outsider blackness that sounds pretty much unlike almost any other black metal". -Cold Spring.