A cold, iron production highlights the tight performance of each track; technically marred only by the "pit-pit-pit-pit-pit" of the bass drum, the music is proficient but ultimately plasma-less. Lengthy, saturnine tracks like "Invasion" and "Raise the Symbols of Satan" make even the first half of this album seem oppressively long and retread; there is really nothing here that Urgehal hasn't been doing since _Arma Christi_ and it bears mentioning that consistency need not mean cannibalism.

Originally released in 2003, Southern Lord Records has taken up the task of re-releasing this album for wider distribution.