Nevertheless, the Finns here are well read in their chosen arts. They effectively utilise their negative predispositions and funnel them musically in an attention-grabbing manner. Their sometimes prominent, sometimes subtle Nordic influences are transparently inoculated with both the melancholic melodicism and percussive quasi-punkness of fellow countrymates Sargeist and Baptism. And on top of that, they have an exquisitely filthy production to boot. So you might ask what's missing then, what's wrong? Nothing necessarily. It's just that although _Sacrilegious Impalement_ is a fine cut of orthodox, meat-and-potatoes Finnish black metal, as it stands it remains yet another undifferentiated permutation of the same exhausted aesthetic prototype; nothing too bad about it, yet nothing too impressive either.