This CD is often compared to Velvet Cacoon, both in praise and criticism. The guitar sound and overall atmospheric black metal approach are certainly similar to Genevieve, though this is a bit more minimalist. The raspy reptilian vocals are so sparse, it's nearly an instrumental album. The album is quite monotonous when trying to listen to it actively, but I found it worked far better as atmospheric background music to zone out to. In this sense, as BM muzak it's not bad, but other than the cheap price and my intial interest in checking it out, I can't really point out any real benefit to picking this for the task over, say, well done ambient or dungeon synth. Speaking of which, there is a short ambient interlude track, and then the final track ends with about 15 minutes of guitar feedback and noise (seems rather counterproductive to any trancelike state the preceding BM monotony put you in!). Aside from these sections, while this creates similar atmospheres as more droning and purely ambient forms of music, they aren't actually incorporated as musical influences.
