Veering heavily back toward their black metal roots, _The Bloody Path of God_ is definitely far from being the boundary-pushing magnum opus that Dockyard 1 would attempt to have you believe, but it does have its moments. The punishing "Unholy Terror", for example, is a pleasing exercise in old-school grimness, combining the clattering malevolence of mid-Nineties Scandinavia with a flurry of wind-tunnel guitar solos that could just as easily have been laid down by Kerry King himself. From a decidedly muted and more traditional departure point there's "The Grim Reaper", a track which could just help to make future Mystic Circle support slots tolerable; something of an achievement in itself. At the end of the day, that really ends up being the point here: it's highly unlikely that a band like this would ever impact anything or anyone over and above a small niche audience, but at least this time round, paying them any attention isn't quite the laborious exercise you'd imagine it to be.