Despite being a one-man project, this is far from a half-baked Darkthrone clone performing two elementary riffs per song; Daemonskald has quite obviously been honing his guitar playing and songwriting skills for quite some time. Whilst doing so, he was no doubt listening to Bathory and Yngwie Malmsteen; perhaps a bit of Falkenbach. But influence should not be confused with mimicry; Sig:Ar:Tyr is far more than the sum of its influences, composing complex and fairly technical songs.

His songs are guitar driven, primarily acoustic, with electric guitars used infrequently (with the exception of the epic closer "Skuld"). Drums surface only occasionally, to provide a little rhythmic impetus where necessary. This is principally an instrumental album, and what little vocals there are consist largely of narration.

Sig:Ar:Tyr are clearly one of the better bands to emerge from the Canadian underground, but with an album as epic and technical as this, I doubt he will remain an unknown entity for too much longer.