Claiming to be a more versatile and diverse outing than its predecessors, the band crank up _Death Triumphant_'s atmosphere to a suitably frostbitten level on songs like "With Veins Wide Open" -- a slow, brooding number built around a subtle synth line and cloaked in the Abyss Studio's always reliable sonance. The big let-down, however, is that these moments of latent genius only seem to spring to the fore in fits and starts. For the better part of its duration, _Death Triumphant_ reeks of typical mid-Nineties black metal formulae. Rather than concentrate on their strengths, the band seem adamant to outdo Marduk in bombastic Scandinavian aggression, and despite their best efforts, one can't help but feel slightly underwhelmed by it all -- not least of all because it's a style that Setherial have pulled off with a greater panache themselves in years gone by.