Deviser are Greek black metal band with roots going back to 1989. That means over three decades of metal and much respect for keeping the black flame alive all these decades. This is their new opus containing ten songs and it is their fifth full length in all, first one in last twelve years. I am always fascinated how Greek black metal scene sounded and still sounds different than their northern Europe mates, being more melodic and warmer so to say than the rest, yet still retaining the melancholy mixed with aggression not necessary delivering speed blast beats but quite the contrary through mid tempo songs, like Deviser has, choir parts, clever mixture of guitar aggression and melodies, synth backgrounds adding to the atmosphere and drama with occasional excursion into some faster parts of the black metal songwriting. This band sounds like Greek bm sound of the nineties with Rotting Christ and Necromantia immediately coming to mind, but it is not a copy or a clone, quite the contrary this aforementioned bands contemporary so it is nice to hear this music played that way so many years later. My personal favorites are ‘Absence of Heaven’, ‘Where Angels Fear to Thread’ featuring guest performance by Heljarmadr of Dark Funeral/Gra fame, also ‘When the Lights Went Out’ featuring guest performance of Efthimis Karadimas of Nightfall fame. Great melodic black metal album.

8/10