I don't remember when I had a chance to hear truly interesting Skullflower release. Quite a long time ago I suppose. Newer releases always give me hope that it will be something good, but everytime after I listen to it, all I'm left with is disappointment. This disc was released in 2011 via famous UK Cold Spring label that releases mainly the most famous industrial names like MZ.412, Sutcliffe Jugend etc. This CD is the best proof that sometimes releasing the famous band means nothing. In this disc I find more than half an hour of thin and poor mixture of filthy black metal and noise. Flyers were announcing the most brutal Skullflower album to date, halfway between Clandestine Blaze and The Rita etc. The final result is weak album with highlighted bad record quality, boredom and dull sounds. The fact that guitar and drums were used does not mean that it is black metal album and the fact that the sound is absolute lo-fi mess with sticking out feedbacks does not mean that it is noise. For me it seems as just another improvised jam session which was perhaps fun to record and have fun with instruments, but all in all that's it what this album offers. 7 tracks that I can hardly distinguish, composed in more or less the same pattern - guitar melody, buzzing, distant drums and crackling noise without lows in the foreground. From time to time I start to think that maybe it's quite interestint to listen to this chaos, but these lonely thoughts leave my head when one track is changed with the second made in the same manner, then the third one and so on until the end of the disc. Maybe black metal or black noise orthodoxes find relief in such kind of albums, but I'm far less sophisticated in that. On the other hand, there are people who enjoy free jazz, so why this album of Skullflower should be ignored? Well, not to paint everything so dark, I'll say that the cover is nice. But I think that if it wouldn't be Skullflower, but some album by no-name project, it would be thrown down in the pile of failed recordings and wouldn't be heard by outside people. But whatever. Let's say that this release will find the target audience. 

Format: CD
Released: 2011
Label: Cold Spring