Hellveto has up until now flown beneath my radar, so I'm unfamiliar with L.O.N.'s previous recordings, but after a rare two year layoff he has stormed back with a nearly unassailable introduction: _Neoheresy_ is classic militant black metal, martial and epic but brutal and emotionally raw at the same time. Well recorded with multilayered vocals and interlaced keyboards providing a symphonic marching band effect, _Neoheresy_ hesitantly breaks down into individual tracks but feels of a piece. Nowhere is this more evident than "Milczace Sumienie", the album's best, a three part suite evolving from frenzied battle metal to lengthy acoustic interlude before lapsing back into aggressive -- yet cerebral -- black metal, less militaristic than before, atmospheric and haunting. At six tracks, _Neoheresy_ lies midway between an EP and an LP, hence the use of both "mini-LP" and "EP" in the official band discography, but if L.O.N.'s muse dictates digestible chunks of assimilated art that fly in the face of marketable "product", so be it.