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Another album I've been keeping on the backburner for a while, Angrenost (this is the one from Portugal) play a brand of black metal with the occasional speed and aggression, but it's more sombre, slow to mid-paced part that are the highlights, with them conveying a crushing, dark atmosphere, very bleak and borderline post-apocalyptic, but strangely peaceful and relaxing (once again I find myself forced to point out that I relax with relatively extreme stuff). Some clean-ish, spoken parts sound creepy and anguished, and at other times it's the expected croacky black metal vocals that take over, straight from the depths of hell or whatever floats your boat. The music is sometimes melodic, but it's nevertheless a wall-to-wall black metal onslaught; there's no breathing room here, the kind of black metal that plows ahead, overflowing the senses. If you like atmospheric black metal that packs a lot of punch, this will do just fine.