With the ‘At The Crack of Dawn’ EP, the fuller production stood out, both on the title track and the Ulver cover of ‘Hymne VIII – Wolf and the Night’, with Emperor more than once coming to mind.
On ‘Into Dawnless Realms’, this is still present, only a step back has been taken in chronological comparison with Emperor’s discography, namely from ‘Anthems at the Welkin at Dusk’ to a combination of ‘In the Nightside Eclipse’ and the ‘Emperor’ EP. It’s not that the production quality has decreased, but it is less full. For the rest, you get solid Nordic Black Metal thrown at you, where the fast, icy parts in terms of quality triumph over, for example, a dark intermezzo in a song like ‘The Offering’.
Certainly not groundbreaking, but it is entertaining.
