I'll just say now that musically this will most likely be my favorite album this year. For the last few years, I've probably viewed their Paracletus album as the best album of the 2010s. And that's where I'm conflicted.

I've never really followed personalities in metal, but from all the things I've read about their vocalist, Mikko Aspa, and his association with Nazism/National Socialist Black Metal, the guy seems like a piece of shit. How does one reconcile with liking the music of someone like that? I'm not sure I have a good answer to that yet. But, yeah, musically this album is kind of on another level much like Paracletus was.