Hollowing kick things off with waves of highly processed metallic scrapings / clangings and a barely intelligible looped voice sample, creating a vacuous, warehouse ambience not unlike the darkest Nurse With Wound material. Things take a more sombre turn with the subdued dronings and organic beating of the "Yadu'a", only to veer into relatively upbeat territory on the short, almost martial third track. Not quite as stimulating as the original Organum / NWW / glitch tradition they appear to be building upon, Hollowing nonetheless excel in the darker, electronic aspects of their music.

Aere Aeturnus opt for a less eclectic approach with their drawn-out cinematic textures; distant cosmic piping frames a backdrop of muted tribal beats and softly processed guitar drones on the aptly titled "of suicide, pain and old age", creeping dreadfully into the rocky subterranean rumblings and uncanny metallic creaking of the compilation's title track. Infinitely depressing stuff on all four of Aere Aeturnus' offerings, with their pervasive sense of otherworldly eeriness not helping things much. Great material nonetheless, and a worthy precursor to Metanemfrost who manage to maintain the atmosphere of desolation with the inexorable scraping and plodding of "Chthonian".

Distinctly scabrous and unhealthy, Metanemfrost's five tracks form a horrid soundtrack to H. P. Lovecraft's monstrous nightmares of antediluvian Gods and shambling beasts. Not quite matching Inade or Lustmord in scope or immensity, the restrained rumblings of "Empire Ablaze" still evoke a sense of cosmic foreboding which eventually coalesce into the arcane ritualism of "Ancient Blood Scriptures", before finishing the disc off with the monotonous thrumming of "The Black Vortex". All in all a highly engaging and varied listen with solid performances throughout, just falling short of being essential listening due to the lack of any immense, genre-defining achievements on the disc.