Overall, Pestilential Shadows continue their streak of astonishing black metal, and they accomplish this by not only enhancing and improving their production but their songwriting as well, as they successfully pull off making engaging and well thought out songs that are elaborate and impactful without overstaying their welcome!

One of Australia's longest-running and most respected black metal bands, Pestilential Shadows have been building a towering canon of work since 2003. Whereas many of their native land's extreme metal exports either tend toward the chaotic or too clean, the shadowy collective led by founding vocalist / guitarist Balam consistently create compelling swathes of drama and darkness, all-enveloping emotion and regal-yet-gritty grandeur. Truly, Pestilential Shadows are black metal classicism par excellence.

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