Musically, they ascribe to the oft-plagiarized Norwegian / Swedish schools of pummeling, tremolo-driven momentum, while balancing on that fine line between sounding like a lackluster offshoot of their musical inspirers and being interestingly spiteful. Tempo variations are just enough to keep the album from morphing into a continuous stream of blasts, with glacial, mid-tempo, scaled down passages setting up an attention-grabbing launch pad for the real onslaught to subsequently take off.

Audibly an interesting slab of meat-and-potatoes black, _Antico Misticismo_ certainly doesn't come out as something genre transcending or generally eyebrow raising material. It seems however, that mostly because of the homogeneity of the genre due to excessive scene inbreeding, this has become almost something of an inevitability nowadays; and consequently, it is to their credit that TiP manage to remain faithful to their artistic roots and produce a record which is both sincere and convincing in its simple delivery. Nonetheless it remains one of those releases that whether you miss it this time round or not, won't necessarily upset your CD collection.