From the moment the first song begins in a flurry a raw, black atmospheres, the emotion and power that went into every meticulously crafted riff and every ounce of atmosphere hits you like a windstorm of cold hatred. It's hard to believe that a single man was able to produce eight incredible songs of pure reassurance that true Scandinavian black metal can be both hateful and emotional. Satanic Warmaster manages to create an onslaught of raw black metal with an interesting array of sounds and the occasional yet much-needed supply at symphonic keys.