Just two years ago, with the release of _Eulogy IV_, Nachtmystium began to create something distinct; not a particularly good album, but one fashioned in a way that captures your attention, while this present release can evoke only scorn, wandering in furrows abandoned long ago by their superiors, and with good reason -- there is nothing more to harvest. At best, what these tracks show is a fine grasp of melody and pacing through rather elementary patterns of melody and thrashing riffs that practically write themselves -- not just unoriginal, but bland too, making this all so tedious and unnecessary.