Sweden’s Deathstars are back with new, fifth studio opus. This is the first studio full length since 2014 and their last album ‘The Perfect Cult’. Anyway, this one contains ten songs of industrial cold, almost inhuman robotic metal like we are used to from this band. I was glad when I saw this album was announced because I like this band very much. Although they mix industrial cold metal with gothic, there are couple of really catchy and melancholic melodies in their song structures and their songs always had an appeal to me that was hard to grasp, but it was there. Vocals are gothic-like, sometimes almost spoken not sung but they evolve into great melody in many choruses backed with excellent female backing vocals that are somehow already a trademark for this band. This is not their best work ever, but songs like ‘This Is’, ‘Midnight Party’, the title song or ‘An Atomic Prayer’ are for sure killers and winners for me on this album. Good one indeed and welcome back Deathstars!

7/10