This is another one-man Atmospheric Black Metal project, this one taking most of the inspiration from classic-era Summoning and the innumerable bands that have followed in that wake. This is an album of songs that are big and expansive, with dreamy, moody melodies and epic-sounding compositions, and if you like works by bands like Eldamar, Sojourner, Dwarrowdelf and the other luminaries in this subgenre, then you will not be disappointed in Autrest. I hear a lot of these kinds of bands, and I have a known taste for this stuff, but I find this album really pushes above the standard in terms of sound and melodies. The production is really stellar, and gives this a depth and resonance a lot of atmospheric bands reach for but can't get. And the songwriting is assured, affecting, and beautiful. Atmospheric Black Metal is, above all else, a style that uses music to try and carry you away to another place, and this album did that for me. A real standout.