The atmospherically titled Sacrificial Baptism in Murky Waters creates an even more distressed, uncomfortable, spine-jangling foray into their unique world of Gothic Black Metal, haunted by their namesake haints and wraiths, and harried by a sense of creeping dread and paranoia.

A grotesque symphonic elements oozes around the raw distorted riffs, like the swamp-rotted flesh adorning the skeletal frame of fly-blown corpses. This is a deep ill-fated exploration into an ominously ambient southern horror.

IXIOL 2023