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Track listing

*All songs published by Tanglade Music/Abstract Sounds. # "Chasing Dragons" – 6:31 (Ravn, Archaon) # "Beyond the Apocalypse" – 4:01 (Ravn, Archaon, Tjalve) # "Aiwass-Aeon" – 3:32 (Ravn, Archaon, Tjalve, Seidemann) # "Nekronatalenheten" – 4:30 (Ravn, Archaon, Tjalve, Seidemann) # "Perished in Pain" – 3:57 (Ravn, Archaon, Tjalve, Seidemann) # "Singer of Strange Songs" – 7:30 (Archaon, Tjalve, Seidemann) # "Blood Is the Mortar" – 3:52 (Archaon, Destroyer, Tjalve, Frost) # "Internal Winter" – 7:41 (Archaon, Tjalve, Seidemann) # "The Blade" – 5:58 (Ravn, Tjalve, Seidemann)

Personnel

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, drums ("The Blade") * Archaon –

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* Tjalve – guitar * Seidemann –

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* Dr. Davidsen – recording, engineering * Tom Kvallsvoll – mastering

Critical reception

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's Alex Henderson called the album a "nasty, harsh, brutally skullcrushing blast of Scandinavian

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/black metal that lacks even the slightest trace of subtlety".

References

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