Every day, black metal tries to escape its past and get to the moment before that past when the why of black metal was clearer, because only from striving for that goal can black metal recapture its sense of beauty, melancholy, and transcendent balance of light and dark.
Revisiting the glory days of the third Darkthrone and second Gorgoroth albums, Black Funeral escape the current fixation on novelty that is really recombined ancient extraneous genres, and instead go for a classic black metal sound that serves to support a vocal presentation.
As a result, this album features moments of great beauty before returning to sweeping mid-paced and doom-paced droning passages designed to present its impressive synthesis of ritual magick and ancient Islam, still searching for that eternal purpose found in its influences.