Review
Volcandra's third album swaps the icy reserve of standard melodic black metal for a hyperactive, multi-genre blueprint. Nicholas Senior of New Noise Magazine notes this chaotic energy in tracks like "Within the Webs," which "feels like going insane while on a black metal carnival ride," highlighting how the Kentucky quintet "almost always lead with melody and harmony above all".
Critics laud how the band tempers this dizzying ambition into a cohesive, forty-minute blast. Writing for Arctic Metal, Even Knudsen praises the album as "tightly structured and free of filler," pointing to an "interplay between aggression and beauty" that is handled with "impressive finesse" to give the arrangements a "cinematic quality". The resulting record is adventurously progressive, trading bleakness for triumphant, energetic escapism.
