The rhythm guitar here has established an intimate relationship with the lead guitar, and both create a unique flirtation of unrelenting, uncompromising heaviness versus a finer streak of desolate melodies and dark guitar solo sonic beauties. They complete each other, if to use a comical cliché. The result is an insidious pleasure.

All in all the music is rather simple, but it owns a distinctive sound and heavyweight presence that are undeniable, all-encompassing and attractive. The style is a hybrid between black and death metal with some doom/death thrown in, but _Misanthropy_ is really none of the aforementioned; it should belong therefore to the unclassified sub-genre dubbed as 'dark metal', similarly to bands such as Swiss Alastis and such: dark, heavy, unclassified metal. It's like dark matter, only music-related.

_Misanthropy_ is an excellent album for all metal aficionados. It's properly written, appealing, carnal and estranged. Its melodics are luscious and thick with black juices, and the whole affair -- female guest vocalist included -- is an aural orgy for the senses. Get this album!