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I already had the band's debut album, which was fairly standard black metal...The main point of interest there being that it was from an exotic country by metal standards (Iran). There are undiluted black metal sections sprinkled throughout this album, sure, but the album has all sorts of varied avant-garde influences and soundscapes and frequently leaves the realms of metal. In a very general sense, the bulk of the music here is a sort of ambient rock utilizing some unusual background sounds. When I say ambient, I must stress it's definitely not the typical dark ambient synth stuff usually incorporated into black metal. Also, I suppose there are some similarities in the way this mixes black metal with non-metal elements, but I don't find this to have all that much in common with the new breed of shoegaze/post-rock influenced "black metal" stuff, which tends to be more immediately accessible.
In a way, the bizarreness has a greater appeal than the actual music itself. If nothing else, it's certainly more unique than their older black metal material.
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