A dark album. A (wonderfully) avant-garde album. An album that combines black metal with symphonic, progressive elements and traditional music - so much so that someone has spoken of "folk/black metal". Labels are as transient as ever: we can compare this CD to Arcturus' masterpiece, "La Masquerade Infernale". There, as in "Empiricism", we can talk about a black metal foundation, which, while consolidating the typical violence of the genre, adds ambient parts, chiaroscuro choirs, and some truly respectable riffing. Without losing imagination, without losing incisiveness.