One more split of finnish harshers. And this is really good, high quality finnish harsh, full of metal junk sounds and intensity, not settling down from the very beginning. The first song in the album - a little more than 20 minutes of Gelsomina's contribution to this release - "The Mercy Seat is Melting". When I've listened to this album for the first time, I was unpleasantly (heh) surprised by this song for it starts with rather far away and not that loud thunder of noise. Because of that I made it louder and started thinking about strange quality of the sound, but after about one and a half minutes, Gelsomina explodes and "Mercy Seat" starts melting. Sound level becomes louder twice or more times and starts damaging eardrums. After the first "cold shower", Gelsomina sounds rather pleasantly. Sound is intensive and always changing. Through high squeaks comes low noise attack, then covered by high noises and hysteric sounds. After powerful stroke of Gelsomina, Squamata takes place. These two finns AE and AO delivers almost half an hour of material. The second song of the album "Poison on Poison" after melting of Gelsomina, sounds a little calmer, thunder of low tone and high squeaks from one or another side. After about 1/3 of a song, the sound begins quick jumps from one ear to another little by little driving me nuts and sounds become more active and various for some time. I'll note that this album is very pleasant for listening with headphones. At last, after about 5 minutes, I guess the first rhythmic place in the whole album comes. Squamata having some fun abusing metal. And at the end of the song, the metal abuse goes full scale, delivering good experience of the sound without any distortions. This was the longest song by Squamata. "Die Elixiere Des Teufels", is the following song. Again, the song is not total chaos, but there are some rhythmic parts and I can feel the structure. The finish of Squamata is "Enslaved by Ants", which, after understanding of Squamata's deliveries for this album, is maybe the best song from all the album. One way or another, this whole release is nice and strong Finnish collaboration, really worth its place in collections of people who like Finnish harsh.

Format: CD
Released: 2007
Label: Freak Animal Recors
Edition: 300